Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" 948
Charliemopps writes "Ron and Rand Paul are shifting the central focus of their family's libertarian crusade to a new cause: Internet Freedom. From the article: 'Kentucky senator Rand and his father Ron Paul, who has not yet formally conceded the Republican presidential nomination, will throw their weight behind a new online manifesto set to be released today by the Paul-founded Campaign for Liberty. The new push, Paul aides say, will in some ways displace what has been their movement's long-running top priority, shutting down the Federal Reserve Bank. The move is an attempt to stake a libertarian claim to a central public issue of the next decade, and to move from the esoteric terrain of high finance to the everyday world of cable modems and Facebook.' This seems like welcome news to me. Let's see if they can get more traction here than they did with the Fed."
Re:So what? (Score:5, Funny)
Not having Palin as VP.
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Re:Yeah (Score:5, Funny)
Neither did Hitler!
Re:are you new here? (Score:5, Funny)
I know I'll get modded up for saying this, but I disagree.
ah crap!!! I did it wrong, didn't I.
Re:So what? (Score:5, Funny)
Instead we get Joe Biden ... that is a complete wash IMHO.
Re:So what? (Score:5, Funny)
The Supreme Court elected W as our president.
I would love to take comfort in that idea, but really, that situation didn't happen because of the SC, it happened because half of us are idiots.
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So, how exactly can a patient be assured that a medical practitioner is competent?
Well, you go by their track record. Obviously new doctors don't have one, so they offer very low prices, so poor people go there, and if they die you know you should avoid it later. The Free Market(tm) works!
Re:You are so, so wrong (Score:5, Funny)
accomplishing the destruction of the most hated person on earth since Adolph Hitler.
Obama killed Stalin?! Wow, that should really help countering the arguments from the right-wing that he's a communist!
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Except for the guy currently running for president, Massachusetts politicians would not be a bad bet (since it's Democrats that run the state, you wouldn't want to pay too much attention to our Republicans anyway). Details here [slate.com], but in general we score well on most metrics -- low divorce rate, lots of education, healthy population (especially children). Economically, high income, low unemployment, high productivity. What's not clear is whether the high incomes cause the other good stuff, or if the other good stuff attracts/causes the high incomes.
Interesting thing about Texas (and I did live there for about eight years) is whether they have forgotten the lessons that they learned back in the 80s. Back then, I believe it went: "Please God, Just Give Me One More Oil Boom. I Promise Not to Blow It Next Time."
Re:So what? (Score:2, Funny)
24.4% of eligible voters voted for W. 24.7% of eligible voters voted for Gore. 49% of eligible voters did not bother show up at the polls. Irrespective of your political leanings, it's more true to say that a quarter of you are idiots and half of you are dangerously apathetic.
24.4% + 24.7% *quickly does math in head*
That doesn't add up to a quarter.