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Maybe Elections Do Matter

by John Rubino on November 17, 2010

It’s been easy to tune out the chatter of the past couple of elections because the outcome seemed irrelevant. Whoever wins, their hands are tied by unmanageable debt and the limited spectrum of politically-feasible policy options. In fact, since whichever party is in office when the world falls apart will get the blame, it’s tempting [...]

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Classic Videos: Ron Paul During the Last Election

by John Rubino on March 8, 2010

The best way to understand how far the U.S. has drifted from its original design is to listen to Ron Paul. He sounds like Thomas Jefferson would if he were around, which makes him a flake and a radical to most of today’s Republicans and Democrats. But he strikes a chord with a surprisingly wide [...]

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Irony: Andrew Jackson On a Federal Reserve Note

by John Rubino on January 9, 2010

Karl Golovin, a retired customs agent and security director for Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, just forwarded a transcript of Andrew Jackson’s farewell address. It’s pretty amazing.  Here’s Karl’s intro, followed by an excerpt: “During his presidency, Andrew Jackson viewed as his crowning achievement that he “Killed the Bank,” the 2nd Bank of the U.S. Our [...]

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Ron Paul: Here Comes the BIG ONE

by admin on October 6, 2009

Ron Paul has a bestseller. That sounds so nice I’ll say it twice. Ron Paul has a bestseller. His new book, End the Fed, is number 30 on Amazon as this is written — with 167 mostly glowing reviews — and his reception last week on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show was hugely positive. Stewart, more-or-less [...]

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I’ll Give Up My Chicken When They Pry It From My Cold Dead Hands

by admin on August 2, 2009

Last week I had dinner with two friends, one of whom is what the mainstream would call a conspiracy nut. Over the course of a couple of hours and a bunch of margaritas he walked us through everything from the government’s role in 9/11 to the FEMA internment camps to the surge in gun regulations, [...]

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