July 6th, 2010 12:26 am | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Election, Foreign Policy, Politics, Rand Paul, Ron Paul | 0
Here is Ron Paul’s appearance on John King USA w/ guest host Jessica Yellin from CNN last night. They discuss the GOP, Michael Steele, the BP oil spill, and his son Rand Paul’s campaign.
July 3rd, 2010 3:02 am | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Activism, Barry Goldwater, Big Government, Blowback, Commentary, congress, Constitution, Foreign Policy, Liberty, Maven Commentary, Neo-con, Politics, Ron Paul, terrorism, War | 6 Responses
RNC Chairman, Michael Steele, made some comments that riled his fellow neo-conservatives regarding the war in Afghanistan. It riled them so much that many of them are playing the part of the Red Queen in Tim Burton’s, “Alice in Wonderland”. They are yelling, “Off with his head!”
William Kristol and Redstate.com’s, Erick Erickson are among those calling for Steele’s resignation. Here is what Steele said that drew their ire:
“Keep in mind again, for our federal candidates, this was a war of Obama’s choosing,” Steele said. “This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.”
“It was the president who was trying to be cute by half by flipping a script demonizing Iraq, while saying the battle really should be in Afghanistan,” Steele said, referring to Obama’s insistence during the presidential campaign that the U.S. should be focused on Afghanistan instead of Iraq.
“Well, if he’s such a student of history, has he not understood that, you know, that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan? All right, because everyone who has tried, over a thousand years of history, has failed. And there are reasons for that. There are other ways to engage in Afghanistan.”
First of all, these remarks seem quite benign to me, especially since Steele clearly does not want to bring the troops home. He just disagrees with the method by which the war is being fought. However, it also seems to me that he’s going a bit Ron Paul here. He did pick up a copy of Paul’s “End the Fed
July 2nd, 2010 10:21 pm | by Mike Miller | Published in Banking, Economics, Federal Reserve, government spending, Money, Obama, Taxes | 0
by John Browne, Senior Market Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital
Last week, global attention was focused on Toronto as the G-20 gathered to confront the growing financial and economic worries darkening the global economic horizon. In an irony worthy of Orwell, the representatives of the world’s top 20 economies (19 countries plus the European Union) managed to ignore the out-of-control spending contained in Western governments’ budgets and instead unite behind a banner that they called “financial responsibility.” This is akin to a group of Mafiosi holding a summit on business ethics.
For the sake of indulgence, let us grant that “responsibility” is a relative term. And although the leaders of the EU have committed themselves to massive bailouts of their more profligate members, they are at least showing some remorse after the fact. This stands in sharp contrast to President Obama, who shows no such regret. While the Europeans tried to stick closely to their declared aim of “responsibility,” it was clear that the American delegation was working a somewhat different angle.
From my perspective, President Obama and his team had three main goals:
First, the US Administration sought to win wide support for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s spend, spend, spend policy. On this front, there appears to be not the slightest daylight between the programs recommended by the Fed and the Treasury. This degree of concord runs contrary to the Fed’s supposed independence.
July 2nd, 2010 12:57 am | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Activism, Big Government, Civil Liberties, Commentary, Constitution, Court Cases, Foreign Policy, Free Market, Health Care, Individual Responsibility, Liberty, Market Regulation, Maven Commentary, Politics, Ron Paul, rule of law, Socialism | 2 Responses
Obama campaigned on “Yes, We can!”, but he’s governing on “Yes, You Will.”
He’s so similar to George W. Bush, and in some cases worse (drone bombing fetish?), on foreign policy that I expect to hear him start mis-pronouncing the word “nuclear” any day now.
He, like his fellow progressives, believes government is the solution to all the problems of the world. Will it take someone hurling a shoe at him to wake him up to the fact that the government doesn’t have such a great track record when it comes to solutions? That probably wouldn’t work. He’d just accuse the shoe-thrower of being a Right-wing extremist and/or a Tea Party racist and/or a domestic terrorist and/or a misguided soul who has been brain-washed by “my opponents” to believe that government is the problem.
Then he may calm down a bit and suggest that perhaps he just needs to explain things better so the stupid peasants that live around his DC castle and beyond understand that the proper role of government is to be involved in every aspect of their lives.
For instance, let’s investigate the health welfare individual mandate.
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