I stayed up late to watch Jay Leno interview Ron Paul in spite of the fact that I needed to be up by 5 AM for work. It was well worth it. I think Jay treated the Good Doctor very fairly and asked good questions that really allowed for quality answers and open [...]

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William Lloyd Garrison was a staunch fighter in the abolitionist movement. I respect this man a great deal. Anyone who fights so strongly for the liberation of other human beings is a hero and friend to me. Please take a moment to check out his wikipedia page.
Finally, I’ll leave you with a [...]

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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” - Henry David Thoreau
Have a great weekend.
Also, check out this article about Ron Paul and crossing the technology/idea “chasm”. It is a very interesting way of looking at this candidacy in relation to technology or ideas.

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And this guy is the Chairman of the Federal Reserve?!?
Please read this article from October 2005, then click on this link to past issues and check out some of the Ponder This… commentary from 2005 regarding the likelihood of a housing bust.
So should a free Internet newsletter/blog really be that much better at understanding what’s [...]

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“Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.” - Aung San Suu Kyi
“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity towards those who are not regarded as members of the herd.” - Bertrand Russell
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” [...]

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Yes. That is $8 Billion with a capital B. That’s a very large chunk of change. To put it in perspective, Merrill Lynch’s total market cap (the value of the business) is $53.9 Billion. $8 Billion is nearly 15% of the company’s total market cap. Wow. This is simply [...]

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I believe one major thing creating backlash to Ron Paul is the idea that he is “soft” on self defense and terror, etc.
If he were president, I do not believe he would be soft at all. I think the relatively simple minded out there equate War in Iraq with War on Terror. It is what [...]

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“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” - Peace Pilgrim
Jingoism is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy”.
As an interested, semi-casual, semi-formal observer of the world, our country and the oft-comical politicians who attempt [...]

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This is a pretty sweet video. It is one example of an average Ron Paul supporter expressing him/herself via Youtube video and touching a number of others. The video made me tear up. Check it out.

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When they perform the polls that we all hear about as being “scientific”, those which mainstream media editor’s everywhere use to determine coverage of certain candidates, they poll “likely Republican voters”.
Most often, the criteria that is used for “likely Republican voters” for the upcoming primary is Republicans who voted in the previous primary (2004).
In 2004 [...]

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