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That Old-Time Religion
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| July 31, 2007
| John Derbyshire
Posted on 07/31/2007 4:32:57 AM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian
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RON PAUL is the RIGHT Candidate for Pro-Life social conservatives.
- Ron Paul introduced the Sanctity of Life Act of 2005, recognizing the Personhood of every unborn baby and removing Abortion from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
- Ron Paul is rated ZERO percent by the National Abortion Rights Action League.
- Ron Paul is an original co-sponsor of the Marriage Protection Act.
- Ron Paul voted to ban Homosexual adoption in Washington DC.
RON PAUL is the RIGHT Candidate for Tax-Cutting fiscal conservatives.
- Ron Paul is ranked by Human Events as the biggest Tax Cutter in all of Congress. Paul Named #1 Tax Cutter in Congress: (Paul) is a co-sponsor
of a constitutional amendment to repeal the 16th amendment and end income, gift, and estate taxes. Regularly pushes for tax cuts. Sponsor of bills to allow tax credits for private school tuition, to permit tax deduction of college tuition, and to stop all taxation of Social Security benefits. Opposes all unconstitutional spending programs.
- Ron Paul has ranked in the 99th percentile of the National Taxpayer Union ratings every year he has been in Congress, and holds the NTU record for the most #1 "Taxpayer's Friend" rankings.
RON PAUL is the ONLY 100% Anti-Terrorist candidate.
RON PAUL is the RIGHT Candidate for National Defense and Foreign Affairs.
- Ron Paul voted for the National Missile Defense Act. (source)
- Ron Paul is one of only two co-sponsors of H. Res. 123, for the establishment of a Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs to "conduct a full investigation of all unresolved matters relating to any United States personnel unaccounted for from the Vietnam era, the Korean conflict, World War II, Cold War Missions, or Gulf War, including MIA's and POW's." (POW-MIA InterNetwork)
- Ron Paul supports a strengthened Coast Guard and increased port security, and increased benefits for veterans.
- Ron Paul advocates United States withdrawal from the United Nations and withdrawal from the World Trade Organization. Says Ron Paul: "We don't need CAFTA or any other international agreement to reap the economic benefits promised by CAFTA supporters, we only need to change our own harmful economic and tax policies. Let the rest of the world hurt their citizens with tariffs; if we simply reduce tariffs and taxes at home, we will attract capital and see our economy flourish." (source).
- "Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country." --U.S. President Ronald Reagan
RON PAUL is the RIGHT Candidate for the Bill of Rights.
RON PAUL is the RIGHT Candidate on Illegal Immigration.
- Ron Paul voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006. Amnesty for lawbreakers is not the answer, and its time to rethink birthright citizenship, Paul added. ("Paul Votes for Stronger Border Security")
- Ron Paul is a co-sponsor of HR 487, which "expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a NAFTA superhighway or enter into any plans to create a North American Union between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico."
- "We need to allocate far more resources, both in terms of money and manpower, to securing our borders and coastlines here at home. This is the most critical task before us, both in terms of immigration problems and the threat of foreign terrorists. Unless and until we secure our borders, illegal immigration and the problems associated with it will only increase." Ron Paul (source)
RON PAUL is the ONLY socially-conservative Candidate defending the independence of the Christian Church against Federal "Faith-Based Socialism".
- "Government funding of religious organizations will transform them into adjuncts of the federal welfare state, more concerned about obeying federal rules and regulations than fulfilling the obligations of their faith." Ron Paul (source). Every other so-called "social conservative" candidate actually FAVORS this underhanded Orwellian Federal assault on the Freedom of the Christian Church.
"I got to know President Reagan in 1976 when, as a freshman congressman, I was one of only four members of that body to endorse then-Governor Reagans primary challenge to President Gerald Ford. I had the privilege of serving as the leader of President Reagans Texas delegation at the Republican convention of 1976, where Ronald Reagan almost defeated an incumbent president for his partys nomination. I was one of the millions attracted to Ronald Reagan by his strong support for limited government and the free-market. I felt affinity for a politician who based his conservative philosophy on '...a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom.' I wish more of todays conservative leaders based their philosophy on a desire for less government and more freedom." Ron Paul, Remembering Ronald Reagan
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In 2008, I'm voting for the REAGAN REPUBLICAN. I'm voting for former Vietnam Combat Flight Surgeon, and Leader of Ronald Reagan's Electoral Delegation from Texas: In 2008, I'm Voting for RON PAUL!
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"The greatest champion of conservative principles we have seen in Congress in the past quarter century."(David T. Pyne, Esq., Vice President of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies)
To: The_Eaglet; Irontank; Gamecock; elkfersupper; dcwusmc; gnarledmaw; Extremely Extreme Extremist; ...
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:33:44 AM PDT
by
OrthodoxPresbyterian
(Please Ping or FReepMail me to be added to the Great Ron Paul Ping List)
To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
stop lecturing foreign governments about human rights; let the Middle East go hang. Whats not to like?
That.
The gold standard? Wasnt it going off the gold standard that gave us full control over the wilder swings of the business cycle? Which was, like, a good idea?
ummm, like, no.
I cant detect much enthusiasm for the Iraq war among conservative commentators and e-mailers. "We gave the Iraqis a fair shot, now lets leave them to it and concentrate on chasing down worldwide terrorism," is the dominant sentiment.
Stop spending too much time with Grover Norquist and Pat Buchanan. How can you concentrate on worldwide terrorism when worldwide terrorists are concentrated in Iraq?
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:44:14 AM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)
To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
How long do you figure before the brave bushbot keyboard warriors start to show up frothing at the mouth and trashing RP calling him a coward and a nut? 5 minutes? 20 mintues?
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:47:31 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
Conservatives confuse the primary process with a horse race. They pick their candidate before he’s out of the gate and stick with him until the end. It doesn’t have to be that way. Let the candidates debate and the conservative ideas will be able lead all the candidates to the right. (Except for Rudy, who may realize that he’s really a Democrat and McCain who’ll finally see the writing on the wall and McFred who’ll realize that bragging about co-authoring the unconstitutional McCain/Feingold wasn’t conservative.)
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:47:35 AM PDT
by
Nephi
( $100m ante is a symptom of the old media... the Ron Paul Revolution is the new media's choice.)
To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
BTTT! That’s an awesome article. This guy nails the DC mentality perfectly.
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:51:01 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(The FairTax and the North American Union are mutually exclusive.)
To: ari-freedom
Stop spending too much time with Grover Norquist and Pat Buchanan. How can you concentrate on worldwide terrorism when worldwide terrorists are concentrated in Iraq?We haven't done the basic things that were needed on 9/11 to protect Americans to the greatest extent possible. That's domestic border control, not for any racist reason or anti-immigrant reasons but to give law enforcement a chance to find out who is in the country without a pool of illegals that increases by the hour.
The president and Mrs. Clinton, they all say we have spent tens of billions of dollars on fancy gadgetry for our border crossing points, so we are safer.
Well, that assumes that al-Qaida is stupid and [will] walk in with an al-Qaida T-shirt carrying a nuclear suitcase and having a bandoleer of bullets around their chest and say here I am at Miami International.
They are not going to come in that way. They are going to come across the border and they are going to come in through a port. ~~ Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA's "Bin Laden" desk
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:53:53 AM PDT
by
OrthodoxPresbyterian
(Please Ping or FReepMail me to be added to the Great Ron Paul Ping List)
To: Nephi
Imagine, for example, President Ron II trying to push his bill to abolish the IRS through Congress. Congress! whose members eat, drink, breathe and live for the wrinkles they can add to the tax code on behalf of their favored interest groups!No wonder the GOP doesn't want him in the debates. Must protect that gravy train!
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:55:26 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(The FairTax and the North American Union are mutually exclusive.)
To: ovrtaxt
Yeah, I usually enjoy reading Derb.
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:57:04 AM PDT
by
OrthodoxPresbyterian
(Please Ping or FReepMail me to be added to the Great Ron Paul Ping List)
To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
Outside a dwindling band of administration loyalists in the wagons circled around George W. Bush, I cant detect much enthusiasm for the Iraq war among conservative commentators and e-mailers. "We gave the Iraqis a fair shot, now lets leave them to it and concentrate on chasing down worldwide terrorism," is the dominant sentiment.
Since this is largely my own position, he must be a genius. LOL. I do think that, having destroyed Iraq's own military, we are obligated to defend Iraq's borders against Iran and especially Turkey for another 3-5 years, primarily from remote bases in Iraq.
I don't share his overall pessimism though. RP running can stir interest in conservative economics and liberty issues. It can recruit future leaders. And, given the right moment and series of events, even win the nomination and the White House.
You can argue how many other politicians were elected that were just as impossible in their contemporary political climate. Yet, they were elected.
Certainly, Ron Paul's odds are long. But well short of impossible. And they continue to improve.
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posted on
07/31/2007 5:05:33 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Rudy: tough on terror, scared of Iowa, wets himself over YouTube)
To: ari-freedom
The gold standard? Wasnt it going off the gold standard that gave us full control over the wilder swings of the business cycle? Which was, like, a good idea?
ummm, like, no.
The United States has never had a full gold-backed currency system. We have always had some fiat money.
Ron Paul favors transition, meaning the introduction of an alternative gold/silver currency to compete with other monetary and financial instruments (Fed currency, credit cards, debit cards, etc.).
If we can have Paypal operate as legal tender, why not gold and silver coins? I don't get the panic. The market can determine their popularity.
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posted on
07/31/2007 5:10:14 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Rudy: tough on terror, scared of Iowa, wets himself over YouTube)
To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
But Caldwell is being very unfair to Paul here. You could turn up people like that among the camp followers of any candidate, from any party. Send me out to poke among activists for Giuliani, Clinton, Edwards, or for sure! Obama: Ill come up with worse than that.But, but I was told right here by the party 'faithful' that only Ron Paul has a few kooks in his ranks. You mean, gasp, that other candidates may have fringe supporters?!?
I doubt its his anti-war stand. Outside a dwindling band of administration loyalists in the wagons circled around George W. Bush, I cant detect much enthusiasm for the Iraq war among conservative commentators and e-mailers. "We gave the Iraqis a fair shot, now lets leave them to it and concentrate on chasing down worldwide terrorism," is the dominant sentiment. Im not clear about Ron Pauls position on routine counter-terrorism and covert ops, but on the war in Iraq, I dont see much of a problem for him base-wise.
This is the NRO isn't it? The National Review?!?
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posted on
07/31/2007 5:10:17 AM PDT
by
billbears
(Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
To: Tolik
A thoughtful article. I’m not sure Ron Paul is actually electable at a national level, not sure who would be his running mate (Pat Buchanan??), but I am glad he consistently surfaces all these conservative ideas and can agree him on almost all of them.
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posted on
07/31/2007 5:56:25 AM PDT
by
RhoTheta
To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
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posted on
07/31/2007 6:42:19 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Rudy: tough on terror, scared of Iowa, wets himself over YouTube)
To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
Few of these laborers in the vineyards of government do anything useful. (In my experience I used to have to deal with them few do anything much at all.) Some of what they do is actually harmful to the nation. On the whole, though, we have settled in with this system. We are used to it. Its not going away, absent a revolution; and conservatives are duh! not, by temperament, revolutionaries. At the very least, we should stop adding to the numbers of government "workers." Can't that be done without a reveolution?
To: George W. Bush
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posted on
07/31/2007 6:52:04 AM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)
To: ari-freedom
I dont think 2 currencies will work because people will pay their debts in the fiat money and lock up their gold money.
You know, there are many forms of silver/gold currency that are still legal tender. The Federal Reserve even sells a gold dollar. So it's not so radical really.
People can already buy gold in many forms as an investment. I think that offering a silver/gold currency is a nice way for people to hold legal currency that also has value as money. I also still have the silver dollars my uncle gave me as a baby, a nice keepsake for family members to give babies or graduates against a truly rainy day.
Given the fluctuations of the gold and silver market, I doubt most Americans would want more than $200-$1000 of gold/silver currency.
However, a more widespread use of gold/silver dollars would help to hedge against the hidden inflation of a Fed that prints money to deflate savings in order to manage the out-of-control federal debt interest costs.
Voting for Ron Paul is a vote to move toward a sounder currency, not a vote to return to a complete gold-backed currency, at least not in the short run.
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posted on
07/31/2007 6:58:38 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Rudy: tough on terror, scared of Iowa, wets himself over YouTube)
To: George W. Bush
well sure anyone can invest right now in gold if they fear inflation. There's e-gold. There are gold etf's.
But nobody is going to spend their valuable gold unless gold money is all there is. And that may ironically require govt enforcement. So that is the big problem I'd like to understand.
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posted on
07/31/2007 7:25:35 AM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)
To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
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posted on
07/31/2007 7:41:49 AM PDT
by
rineaux
(the powers that be are laughing at us)
To: ari-freedom
I just don't see why issuing $20 billion - $40 billion in gold/silver currency can be a bad thing. After we issued it, we could see if it was a good idea to proceed.
Personally, I'm not supporting RP for the currency issue or the Federal Reserve issue. He has a much broader agenda for liberty and small-government. And I think we're going to see Iraq and Afghanistan winding down by election time, one way or the other. Either the surge works or not. We will start to pull back regardless by next spring.
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posted on
07/31/2007 7:43:45 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Rudy: tough on terror, scared of Iowa, wets himself over YouTube)
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