Archive | April, 2008

Finally – a Good Ron Paul Antiwar TV Ad!

The folks at American Liberty Coalition have crafted a powerful antiwar ad promoting Ron Paul for president. This minute long ad conveys Ron Paul’s passion and his concern about the ruinous costs of the current wars and the peril of Bush attacking Iran. The Liberty Coalition solicited donations to help pay for airing the ad, […]

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Congress Quietly Repeals Martial Law Provision

In late 2006, Congress revised the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act to make it far easier for a president to declare martial law. Those changes were repealed at the end of this January as part of Public Law 110-181 (HR 4986), the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (signed into law […]

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Ron Paul Supporters Rally at Capitol

A couple hundred Ron Paul supporters gathered in front of the Capitol today to hear speakers @organized by the Granny Warriors.  I stopped by mid afternoon.  I was told by one attendee that “Ron Paul came  by and spoke around 11:15. Unfortunately, the sound system was  not yet working  at that point.”  He said he […]

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White House Choreographed Torture Sessions

ABC has a bombshell tonight about how Cheney and other top Bush administration officials would sit at the White House and decide exactly how Muslim detainees would be tortured.  ABC noted: “The high-level discussions about these ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed — down […]

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Martial Law Act of 2006

 The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online my article from the January 2008 issue of Freedom Daily on Martial Law.  Without further ado… The Martial Law Act of 2006 by James Bovard Martial law is perhaps the ultimate stomping of freedom. And yet, on September 30, 2006, Congress passed a provision in a 591-page bill […]

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$34 Million for the Ron Paul Prez Campaign

The latest financial disclosure forms indicate that more than $34 million has been raised by and for the Ron Paul campaign for president.  The campaign has spent more than $28 million. The campaign had $5.5 million on hand at the end of February. The Paul campaign also filed a disclosure listing more than 2500 itemized […]

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