REAL ID
August 3rd, 2008 7:07 pm |
by Mike Miller
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Big Government, Bob Barr, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Election, Individual Responsibility, law, Liberty, Politics, REAL ID, terrorism |
Which presidential candidate is speaking out for our rights and against the heinous Real ID Act? Bob Barr, of course.
Over at CrazyForLiberty.com, Doug Craig quotes Barr:
“The Real ID Act establishes a new and privacy-invasive national ID card program. By forcing states to standardize their driver’s licenses and creating a vast national data base of private information on the citizenry, the law establishes through the back door something Americans would never have accepted directly—a National Identification Card….There was no open and honest vote on Real ID. The mandate was slipped into a supplemental appropriations bill, discouraging any real debate over the issue.”
“Creating anything close to a national ID card threatens Americans’ basic civil liberties and privacy while doing little or nothing to make us more secure… [the legislation] means higher fees, longer lines, and greater inconvenience for Americans getting a driver’s license. The burden on states, which have to redesign and remake state licenses and include all manner of information on citizens applying for new driver’s licenses, would be extremely high and immensely costly, since they would have to restructure computer databases, security systems, verification measures, and more.”
And of course, there’s the simple fact that all 19 terrorists who took part in the attacks of September 11th had secured drivers licenses with phony documents. If you think the Real ID will be “tamper-proof” or that any such ID could ever exist, you will drown in your own naivete.
Read the full article here.
July 24th, 2008 8:53 am |
by Marc Gallagher
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Abortion, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Drugs, Economics, Education, Election, energy, Environment, Federal Reserve, fisa, Foreign Policy, Gun Control, Health Care, Immigration, Internet Regulation, Liberty, Maven Commentary, Media, Obama, Politics, Polling, REAL ID, Religion, Ron Paul, Social Security, Socialism, Taxes, War |
The final Presidential candidate we will be rating on the Paul-O-Meter is the Green Party’s nominee, Cynthia McKinney. For a description of the Paul-O-Meter see this article. We have previously completed ratings for John McCain, Barack Obama, Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin, and Ralph Nader.
You can get in the action too by rating the candidates using our Paul-O-Meter polling application here.
Listed below is our own ratings for Cynthia McKinney.
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July 22nd, 2008 8:34 am |
by Marc Gallagher
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Abortion, Big Government, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Drugs, Economics, Education, Election, energy, Environment, Federal Reserve, fisa, Foreign Policy, Free Market, Gun Control, Health Care, Immigration, Internet Regulation, Liberty, Maven Commentary, Media, Money, Politics, REAL ID, Religion, Ron Paul, Social Security, Taxes, War |
It is now Ralph Nader’s turn to be viewed through the Ron Paul colored glasses of the Paul-O-Meter. The Paul-O-Meter rates the candidates on how closely they resemble Ron Paul on the issues. For a complete description and methodology of the Paul-O-Meter please see this article. Thus far we have rated Barack Obama, John McCain, Bob Barr, and Chuck Baldwin.
You can join in the rating fun by using our web based Paul-O-Meter application here. Feel free to check it out and submit your own ratings for all the Presidential candidates.
Find our own ratings for Ralph Nader below.
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July 15th, 2008 12:44 am |
by Marc Gallagher
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Abortion, Big Government, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Drugs, Economics, Education, Election, energy, Environment, Federal Reserve, fisa, Foreign Policy, Free Market, Gambling, Gun Control, Health Care, Immigration, Internet Regulation, Liberty, Maven Commentary, Media, Philosophy, Politics, REAL ID, Religion, Ron Paul, Social Security, Taxes, War |
UPDATE: Chuck Baldwin’s Communications Director posted a comment clarifying his position on a few of the issues. This has modified Baldwin’s overall score. Read the comments for more details.
It is now Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin’s turn to be spun through the Paul-O-Meter. So far we have rated Barack Obama, John McCain, and Bob Barr. Will Chuck Baldwin beat Bob Barr’s current high score of 88? Read on to find out.
For a detailed description of the Paul-O-Meter look here.
NEW: If you’d like to rate the candidates on the Paul-O-Meter please do so on our Paul-O-Meter user rating application here.
Continue reading to see our ratings for Chuck Baldwin.
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July 11th, 2008 8:48 am |
by Marc Gallagher
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Abortion, Big Government, Bob Barr, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Drugs, Economics, Education, Election, energy, Environment, Federal Reserve, fisa, Foreign Policy, Free Market, Gambling, Gun Control, Health Care, Immigration, Internet Regulation, Libertarianism, Liberty, Maven Commentary, Media, Politics, REAL ID, Ron Paul, Social Security, Taxes, War |
It is now Libertarian candidate Bob Barr’s turn to be spun through the Paul-O-Meter. We rate the candidates on 20 criteria to see how closely they match up with Ron Paul on the issues. Thus far we have rated Barack Obama and John McCain. Read all about the Paul-O-Meter here.
NEW: Now you can submit your own ratings using our new Paul-O-Meter web polling service. Check it out here.
Our rankings for Bob Barr are below.
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July 7th, 2008 9:02 am |
by Marc Gallagher
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Abortion, Big Government, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Drugs, Economics, Education, Election, energy, Environment, Federal Reserve, Foreign Policy, Free Market, Gambling, Gun Control, Health Care, Immigration, Internet Regulation, John McCain, Liberty, Maven Commentary, Media, Politics, REAL ID, Religion, Ron Paul, Social Security, Taxes, War |
In the next installment of our Ron Paul Paul-O-Meter effort to rate the Presidential candidates we hold John McCain to the Ron Paul liberty fire. Previously, we rated Barack Obama. For details about the Paul-O-Meter see the description.
Read on for John McCain’s scores on the issues.
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July 3rd, 2008 9:59 am |
by Marc Gallagher
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Abortion, Big Government, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Debt, Drugs, Economics, Education, Election, energy, Environment, Federal Reserve, Foreign Policy, Free Market, Gambling, Gun Control, Health Care, Immigration, Internet Regulation, Liberty, Maven Commentary, Obama, Philosophy, Politics, REAL ID, Religion, Ron Paul, Social Security, Taxes, War |
A few days ago we introduced the Ron Paul Paul-O-Meter. For a description and overview of the Paul-O-Meter, please read the article here.
Today we begin rating the Presidential candidates with our rating for Barack Obama. The Paul-O-Meter will give us a total score on 20 criteria. The closer a candidate gets to 100 points the more that candidate is like Ron Paul. For each criteria we will give the score and a short justification for that score. Read the results for Barack Obama below.
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June 30th, 2008 8:50 am |
by Marc Gallagher
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Abortion, Activism, Big Government, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Drugs, Economics, Election, energy, Environment, Federal Reserve, Foreign Policy, Free Market, Gambling, Gun Control, Health Care, Humor, Immigration, Internet Regulation, Liberty, Maven Commentary, Media, Philosophy, Politics, REAL ID, Religion, Ron Paul, Social Security, Taxes, War |
Who needs a Ron Paul endorsement when you have the Paul-O-Meter?
Everyone knows the perfection of Ron Paul. He is already a living legend. All future candidates are damaged goods simply because they are not Ron Paul. There is only one Ron Paul. So to see how other candidates measure up to his perfection we are introducing the “Paul-O-Meter”.
The Paul-O-Meter ranks candidates on a scale from 0 to 100 depending on how closely they are in agreement with Ron Paul on chosen criteria. Since no candidate can possibly equal Ron Paul, the highest score on the Paul-O-Meter attainable for candidates other than Ron Paul is 99. To simplify the ranking, each candidate will be graded from 1 to 5 on each of the 20 criteria. The 20 criteria are listed below, along with a short description for each.
NEW: Now you can submit your own ratings using our new Paul-O-Meter web polling service. Check it out here.
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June 5th, 2008 10:16 pm |
by Marc Gallagher
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Civil Liberties, Constitution, Debt, Drugs, Economics, Election, Frank Wolf, Free Market, Gun Control, Politics, REAL ID, Social Security, Taxes, Vern McKinley |
Vern McKinley is challenging incumbent Frank Wolf in a Republican primary next Tuesday, June 10th in Virginia’s 10th congressional district. I live in this district and have heard some seriously scary things about Frank Wolf. I will not repeat them because I have no proof, instead I will try to focus on the issues where he and Mr. McKinley differ.
Vern McKinley is a principled Reagan Republican. I’m talking about the Reagan running for office, not the Reagan who forgot about cutting spending as well as cutting taxes. I suppose his Congress could be blamed for that. Frank Wolf used to be a Reagan Republican. He even ran supporting term limits in 1980. Almost 28 years have passed and he is still in office. Wolf, from the very beginning couldn’t keep a campaign promise.
On to the issues. If an issue is not listed it means that both McKinley and Wolf generally agree on the issue with a bit of room for differences in the margins. The point is to show where the candidates truly have a different world view.
Earmarks (AKA “bringing home the bacon”): Wolf likes to tout his SAFE commission, which is yet another Wolf investigative committee like he has proposed so many times in the past without much to show for it. The idea is to “examine” earmarking and figure out methods to curb it. This, in my view, is an establishment politician trying to have his cake and eat it too. It looks good on paper, but why did Wolf propose and get over $200 million in federal money in earmarks last year? Just another sly Wolf-like move, I guess. I hope people are paying attention this time.
McKinley on the other hand is almost running his entire campaign on “earmark” reform. He rightly criticizes Wolf on earmarks, saying that states shouldn’t use the federal government as an ATM machine. Funds for local projects should be raised locally. There’s some true federalism for ya. Bravo Vern.
Grades: Wolf gets an ‘F’ for being a shyster. McKinley gets an ‘A’.
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May 30th, 2008 3:46 pm |
by Marc Gallagher
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law, REAL ID |
Alaska, on Wednesday passed into law an effective ban on implementing REAL ID in the state:
Section 1. AS 44.99 is amended by adding a new section to article 1 to read:
4 Sec. 44.99.040. Limitation on certain state expenditures. A state agency may not expend funds solely for the purpose of implementing or aiding in the implementation of the requirements of the federal Real ID Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-13, Division B).
It seems the REAL ID Act of 2006 will never become the “law of the land.” And I say, thank gods for that. (Thanks to CATO for the news)
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