Former Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul of Texas will speak at Saturday's session of the 50th anniversary of the Appleton-based John Birch Society.
Paul will be one of three speakers at the 8 p.m. Saturday event at the Best Western Bridgewood Resort Hotel in Neenah, according to society spokesman Bill Hahn. Also speaking at that event will be Hilliard Welch, son of society founder Robert Welch, and society chief executive Arthur Thompson.
The local squirrels will be in heaven.
Hi my name is Jessica Olson also known as Jessi. I am working very hard to get my blog started but hold tight you will love my topics, conversations and input. My plan is to Wake Up America. Watch for my links, articles and featured websites.
Good luck Jessi.
Meanwhile, Capt. Karl is blogging at The Liberty Tree Lantern.
Ol’Capt. Karl, the writer, is concerned about the Constitutionally contemptuous actions of the U.S. Congress that have led us down the path toward Socialism, the loss of our FREEDOM, and is resulting in a massive degradation of our INDIVIDUAL prosperity.
This blog is specifically setup to inform my fellow countrymen about the ravages of the U.S., State of Wisconsin and local Marinette / Pestigo Government actions which run contrary to our Freedom and our best interests, both in a historical and contemporary sense but both as they combine to impact our lives today.
Join Ol’ Capt. Karl under The Liberty Tree where the light of truth shines to expose tyrants and provide insight as to what we can do as a FREE people to restore that which has been usurped by despots.
Capt. Karl is a Ron Paul holdout and a critic of the Federal Reserve. I forgot to mention in Appleton I'm a fan of Alexander Hamilton.
Good luck to both of these new bloggers.
Former Republican Congressman Bob Barr announced he’s running for president as a Libertarian. Zogby polling currently has him at 3 percent, just enough to have a Nader-like effect on Republican chances in November.
Meanwhile, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, the Libertarian candidate for president in 1988, continues to chug along to the Republican convention where his supporters hope to be noisier than his estimated 19 delegates would suggest.
However, this was also the week that saw Kevin Barrett enter in the race for Congress as a Libertarian against Ron Kind.
This is not to say that Barrett is unanimously endorsed by the party. The state party chairman wasn’t sure "what the next steps are" and indicated that there was some opposition to Barrett within the party. However, he admitted, there is a strong component within the party that believes in 9-11 conspiracies. He hoped Barrett’s candidacy wouldn’t be solely about 9-11. He also told me Barrett is a member in good standing.
I checked with Randy Palmer, the Libertarian Party’s 3rd Congressional District representative, and he hoped Barrett would not use his campaign as a soapbox for his conspiracy theories. Palmer had no firm beliefs about what happened on 9-11 and conceded again that there are "lots of people" in the party that believe in the conspiracy theories.
And I conclude,
I would add that any hope of the party leadership that Barrett’s candidacy would not be about 9-11 conspiracies misses the point. That’s how he gained his notoriety, his Web site is plastered with 9-11 conspiracy material, and WEAU television reported Barrett’s call for another investigation into 9-11.
If the Libertarians, both locally and nationally, want to move out from their fringe status and kook reputation, they should issue a strong statement condemning 9-11 conspiracy theorists like Barrett. And they may want to have a long talk with Tommy Thompson’s little brother as well.
Meanwhile, I wrote another piece that complimented my Freeman column over at Jo Egelhoff's FoxPolitics.net. There I went into greater detail of my conversation with Marquette University Professor John McAdams about conspiracy theories. Because of the later deadline, I was also able to include a follow-up conversation with national Libertarian Party Political Director Sean Haugh.
Haugh did end up calling me back to say that he could not support Barrett’s candidacy for Congress. Not because of the 9/11 conspiracy thinking. It was Barrett’s support for Holocaust denier David Irving that had given him pause. “Oh, my.” And then Haugh’s research also led to discovering Barrett had called for the execution of journalists “complicit in the 9/11 cover-up.”
So it’s interesting to note that the Libertarian Party does have some standards. Calling for violence against journalists and denying the Holocaust are, in Haugh’s words, “beyond the pale.”
We’ll see if the Wisconsin Libertarian Party also finds Barrett to be “beyond the pale” or if Barrett will continue to run as a Libertarian without opposition from the party leadership.
Given former Libertarian Party candidate for governor Ed Thompson’s seeming endorsement of much of Barrett’s 9/11 conspiracy views in a February 19 radio interview, it’s a fair bet the Libertarian Party will continue to be the home of the political fringe.
The Texas Republican congressman addressed supporters in a 7 1/2-minute video on his campaign Web site Thursday night and did not specifically say he was quitting the race.
He said that although victory in the conventional political sense is not available in the presidential race, many victories have been achieved due to the hard work and enthusiasm of his supporters.
Ralph Nader announced on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he'll run as a third-party, anti-corporate candidate for president this fall, which would be likely to drain votes from the Democratic nominee and provide a huge boon to Republicans.I can't wait to see who he picks as his running mate. Ron Paul? Mike Gravel? Cindy Sheehan?
Democrats say they will work behind the scenes — and use court challenges, if necessary — to try to thwart his access to ballots.
The longtime consumer activist said on "Meet the Press" that Washington has become "corporate occupied territory" and that none of the current presidential candidates are sufficiently addressing corporate crime, labor rights or Pentagon waste.
"In that context, I have decided to run for president," he told host Tim Russert.
The immediate question for Democrats is whether they'll be as ruthless as they were in 2004 in throwing procedural obstacles in the way of Nader's access to the ballot in key states.Boo! Let every vote count! Full ballot access for everyone! Full public financing for Nader! Run Ralph Run!
Nader has a pending lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee on the issue and recently told Politico that he would make ballot access a central cause of a presidential campaign, which he restated on television Sunday morning.
"It could be very, very valuable. It could send a powerful message where the where the media could not ignore us. At the same time, if nobody shows up it might mean maybe there weren't enough of us, maybe we didn't have enough energy, maybe we didn't want to go to Washington," he admitted.No date has been set for the march, and the idea is not even original. Paul's supporters have marched before.
In an emailed message to supporters, Paul says, "Let me tell you my thoughts with Romney gone, the chances of a brokered convention are nearly zero." From Paul this is about as close as we can get to an admission there there is no possible way he can get the nomination.(The full text of Ron Paul's message is at his campaign website.)
Indeed, Paul is not ending or suspending his campaign. The fact there won't be a brokered convention, "does not affect my determination to fight on, in every caucus and primary remaining, and at the convention for our ideas, with just as many delegates as I can get," he declares.
He's just going to do it with even fewer resources than he already has. "With so many primaries and caucuses now over," writes Paul, "We do not now need so big a national campaign staff, and so I am making it leaner and tighter."
Paul also, for the umpteenth time, rules out a third party run and says he will refocus on keeping his Congressional seat. He faces a primary challenge in Texas.
"I have constituents in my home district that I must serve. I cannot and will not let them down. And I have another battle I must face here as well. If I were to lose the primary for my congressional seat, all our opponents would react with glee, and pretend it was a rejection of our ideas. I cannot and will not let that happen," he says.
Call wants the nationwide army of boisterous Ron Paul supporters, believers in more conspiracy theories than Oliver Stone, to know that she's committed no crime.I'd say these people need to get a grip, but if they had a grip on reality they wouldn't be Ron Paul suppporters, would they?
Not treason, as the dozens of phone callers screamed. Not fraud, as the dozens of e-mails charged. Nothing.
Human error, by someone unknown, caused Call's office to claim Paul received zero votes from the town during Tuesday's first-in-the-nation primary.
Paul actually got a whopping 31 votes.
Out of 920 cast.
Launch an investigation. Alert the media.
The mistake was corrected early the next morning, but that hardly mattered. The Paul machine, upon reading the number in print, quickly went into counteroffensive mode.
This is luck at its worst. Screw up Rudy Giuliani's vote total. Or John McCain's. Or John Edwards's. Or Bill Richardson's.
But never, ever get anything wrong when it comes to Paul and his voting tally. If you do, fans who shouted from the rooftops through the primary season will track you down and chew you out.
"Most of the these people are not rational," Call said.
This does not mean we will have an easy time of it -- just the opposite, of course. After all, we are seeking to reverse more than a century of big government, of the warfare-welfare state, of Federal Reserve's dollar manipulation, of a fat and happy military-industrial complex, of the subversion of our Constitution. So all the media and other "second-hand dealers in ideas," as F.A. Hayek called them, who have a vested interest in the current order, will do everything possible to smear me. They will do and say anything to try to block our movement. Even vote fraud is not beyond these people.
While his statements sometimes leave the impression that Mr Paul simply licensed his name to people with whom he had little contact, there is much evidence to the contrary. The newsletters that appeared under his name were published by M&M Graphics and Advertising, a company run by Mr Paul's longtime congressional campaign manager Mark Elam—which Mr Elam himself confirms. And according to numerous veterans of the libertarian movement, it was an open secret during the late-80s and early-90s who was ghostwriting the portions of Mr Paul's newsletters not penned by the congressman himself: Lew Rockwell, founder of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and members of his staff, among them Jeffrey Tucker, now editorial vice president of the Institute.What should give libertarians (and Libertarians) pause is the point made that the racist appeals were a deliberate strategy in the wake of Paul's 1988 campaign as the Libertarian Party standard-bearer.
Mr Rockwell denied authorship to Jamie Kirchick, the reporter whose New Republic article published earlier this week reignited controversy over the newsletters. But both Mr Rockwell (who attacked the New Republic article on his site) and Mr Tucker refused to discuss the matter with Democracy in America. ("Look at Mises.org," Mr Tucker told me, "I'm willing to take any responsibility for anything up there, OK?") According to Wirkman Virkkala, formerly the managing editor of the libertarian monthly Liberty, the racist and survivalist elements that appeared in the newsletter were part of a deliberate "paleolibertarian" strategy, "a last gasp effort to try class hatred after the miserable showing of Ron Paul’s 1988 presidential effort." It is impossible now to prove individual authorship of any particular item in the newsletter, but it is equally impossible to believe that Mr Rockwell did not know of and approve what was going into the newsletter.
The day of the New Hampshire primary, the news broke on Fox News that Clinton was reorganizing her staff. By the end of the evening, Clinton was giving her victory speech, a quick and inexplicable turnaround.The Republicans debated tonight and this time (according to the post-debate analysis focus group) it was Fred Thompson's turn to shine.
Funny how things change. It wasn’t long before the Iowa caucus that Sen. Barack Obama was being written off. Now he’s won Iowa decisively and finished a strong second in New Hampshire, two states with a minimal black vote.
Fox News reported Tuesday night their exit polls showed Clinton finished much better among women, while Obama did much better among men. As the two candidates head into states with larger black populations, it will be interesting to see if Obama can bring the black vote home and if that will be enough of a margin to defeat Clinton’s hold on traditional Democratic voters.
Former Sen. John Edwards (not to be confused with the television psychic Jon Edward) finished a distant third in New Hampshire after finishing second in Iowa. Most analysts are writing him off. But then again, most analysts wrote off Clinton and Obama.
And if you’re wondering about former Libertarian candidate for president Congressman Ron Paul, currently running as a Republican, his supporters are trying to raise money to fly a blimp and staging virtual campaign rallies in the "World of Warcraft" online game. Paul will sew up the Orc vote, even as The New Republic publishes revelations about the racist screeds published in Paul’s newsletters.
The Michigan primary is Tuesday, and then place your bets, folks. Four days later is the Nevada primary, and anyone can still win on both sides.
I just got off the phone with Jennifer Call, Town Clerk for Sutton. She confirmed that the Ron Paul totals in Sutton were actually 31, and said that they were "left off the tally sheet" and it was human error.The clerk probably couldn't concentrate with all of the noise from the black helicopters spying on Ron Paul supporters.
This is not an acceptable answer, especially because one of the most common forms of fraud in a hand count system is to alter or omit results on the reporting sheet. Hand count is lovely, transparent. They then fill out another reconciliation sheet, often in front of witnesses, and it looks fine. Then they provide a summary or media sheet with the incorrect results.
Presidential candidates
I’m watching the ABC Republican debates (on Saturday). Ron Paul is the only person up there who I see as a viable candidate.
Don Black, of West Palm Beach, recently made the donation, according to campaign filings. He runs a Web site called Stormfront with the motto, "White Pride World Wide." The site welcomes postings to the "Stormfront White Nationalist Community."In related news, here's a great picture of the new Ron Paul blimp getting ready to take off:
Despite relatively low poll numbers, Paul has had a big influence on the presidential campaign. That's in part because he's raised a ton of money, and in part because of the passionate following he has on the Web. It's one reason we're posting my interview with Paul only on the Internet, where the debate about Paul is very active. In fact, he's the most Googled presidential candidate.Update! Found this from Steve Antler, the EconoPundit back on November 18th:
Next week, ABCNEWS.com will post five additional video segments and articles from the interview.
On Monday, we'll examine the role of government -- what the federal government should and shouldn't do. Tuesday, Paul gives his views on when war is justifiable. On Wednesday we'll tackle immigration. Like many of his GOP colleagues, Paul opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants and wants more border enforcement. But he says the real problem lies with birthright citizenship and other enticements of the American welfare state. On Thursday we discuss health care, and on Friday, we'll discuss one of the Texas congressman's favorite topics, the Constitution.
ht: The Agitator
Mike Huckabee on Fox News Sunday this morning:A Huckabee/Paul ticket! The worst of both worlds!
With the fair tax, you end the underground economy. Drug dealers, prostitutes, pimps, illegals -- everybody has to pay the tax at the retail level -- so right now those billions of dollars, that people like you and me are having to make up for, 'cause other folks are working under the table, now everybody's paying into the system. That's one of the reasons that it really is a fair tax.
Drug dealers? Prostitutes? Pimps? We'll somehow start collecting sales taxes from them? What planet is this guy from?
A video has appeared on the Internet, showing members of the San Francisco Republican Alliance meeting at the Holiday Inn at Fisherman's Wharf on Wednesday night. The purpose of the meeting was supposed to be taking a straw poll to pick a favorite candidate. "We waited for the straw poll to come but it never came because so many Ron Paul supporters showed up," described Ron Paul supporter Jerry Cullen.
According to Cullen, the evening appeared to be weighted in favor of former Senator Fred Thompson, but when the doors were opened to latecomers, 75 Ron Paul supporters marched in. That's apparently when the star poll cancelled and the shouting began. The dispute because so loud that hotel security came to the room.
However, Alliance president Gail Neira insists the vote wasn't cancelled because Ron Paul appeared poised to win. "I would not have invited them if I didn't want them to participate," insisted Neira. "They just have to follow protocol." When asked what they did wrong, Neira replied "they invited people that I didn't even know. They're weren't on my list."
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