The Philosophy of Liberty

Via Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty.

Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty

I’m only gonna post the video for now. Longer post coming up, though. Not necessarily only about this but also about Bob Barr and why he needs to get your voice instead of John McCain. I’ve reached the conclusion that we can survive four years of Barack Obama. Coming up – end of June-ish. Needs some research to illustrate what I’m trying to say and I lack the time for that right now.

FOX on and with Ron Paul

The guy at the end of the first vid that’s scared shitless – yeah, he amuses me. :D

100th Post

Well, this is the first one of hopefully a great many celebratory posts. Didn’t take us too long to reach this goal. In doing so we got about 1000 visits – not too bad either but obviously plenty of potential to increase that number!

Major problem: We still haven’t quite found what this is gonna be about.

Movie reviews? Did that, a couple of times.

YouTube Videos? Did that, too. Quite often, in fact.

Dan Mitchell? Just kidding, obviously, but looking at how often I’ve written about this guy one might become a little suspicious. ;)

Ron Paul got his fair share of mentions, too. Still, his time in the limelight is more or less over. Sure, we’ll still post about what his up to – not because the mainstream media cares but because we care.

Biggest success, obviously, was the whole homeschooling thing we had going for a while back in the beginning of April.

Personal favourite? Probably this one because I feel like it’s the one post where I added the most value.

So yeah, where do we go from here? We’re under no pressure to please anyone apart from ourselves. No need to regularly post either (though I try to do that whenever possible). This isn’t a commercial project and won’t be anytime in the foreseeable future (personally I consider the odds of this just dying slowly far higher).

Let us know what you liked best, of what you’d like more and of what you’d like less. ;)

Various Links #4

Pretty amazing Ron Paul ad/clip

Wow.

The Onion on pork-barrel spending

The Onion made up the following examples (via the Club for Growth):

Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), $1,000 to buy every seat in a Lincoln, NE cineplex so he could watch National Treasure: Book Of Secrets in peace

Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), $6,500 for larger Congressional Softball League hats

Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), $20: Federal Nutrition Assistance Program for Senators Who Forgot Their Wallets

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), $10 million to build a one-mile, 20-lane highway outside of Salt Lake City

Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH), $15 million: erection of a Barbasol museum

Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE), $19 million: free-clam program to benefit people who have never eaten clams

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), $2.8 million for increased Sen. Amy Klobuchar awareness

Rep. Diane Watson (D-CA), $100 billion to establish a National Aeronautics and Space Administration program

Luckily enough, these are entertaining rather than angering. Still, as the CFG says, rather sad to see that these could pretty much exist. When I find the time, I’ll have to check out that CAGW report more thoroughly – if I recall correctly, Ron Paul got 91% which isn’t too bad but is also pretty much the only thing I’ve checked out so far.

Bob Barr for president…I guess?

Over at Reason, David Weigel says:

When former Rep. Bob Barr arrives in Kansas City on Saturday for the Heartland Libertarian Conference, organizers expect him to launch an exploratory committee for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination.

So, I guess I’ll have to throw my support behind this guy now that Ron Paul is out. Honestly though, I don’t know enough about him to make any kind of qualified statement. I promise, I’ll look into him though and I’m fairly confident that he’ll be to my liking – not necessarily set the same central topics I would but essentially agree with me 80-90% of the time. That’s good enough for me in today’s world of politics.

Ron Paul on the Fed

Yep, he’s at it again. Interesting as usual but for more than 6 minutes I would’ve expected a little more.

The Ron Paul Revolution Is Not Over?

Well, looks that way (via Reason):

Dozens of avid supporters of Ron Paul, a Texas congressman who is running a renegade quest for the presidential nomination, staged a political guerrilla attack. At that caucus at St. Peters City Hall — as well as others across the state — party regulars like Bennett were overwhelmed.

Caucuses in Missouri, held only in presidential election years, are typically low-key affairs attended mainly by party diehards. But this year, the pro-Paul activists commandeered gatherings in the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County, Kansas City and Springfield. Paul supporters also controlled caucuses in at least a half dozen rural counties.

The result: Paul’s supporters predict they have snagged roughly a third of the 2,137 state Republican delegates. Those delegates will determine the state GOP platform this spring and help select the presidential delegates to the national Republican presidential convention in Minneapolis in September.

Yep, that’s pretty clever and it shows where this can go – even if it isn’t about RP anymore. It also highlights that there might still be some hope left for the Republican party. Oh, wait, did I just say that out loud?

But Missouri Republican officials plan to fight back. State Republican Party Executive Director Jared Craighead said party leaders will be examining the lists of caucus-goers, and of the newly elected state delegates. He contends that some of the Paul activists involved in the caucuses were really Democrats or Libertarians who should be tossed off.

Right, you’re looking at the forces unleashed by Barack Obama and you find among yourself forces at least equally motivated and the best thing you can come up with in response is…this? Seriously, I just doubt you even deserve this. RP certainly has his drawbacks and there are some areas where his philosophy doesn’t exactly equal yours – but you know, he has been a Republican for a long, long time and you should find yourselves able to agree with most of what he asks for. And even the areas where you can’t – how about at least giving it a second look? Maybe reevaluate your own positions, you know, the ones that lost the 2006 election…