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Fred Thompson Wins, Ron Paul Second in South Carolina Straw Poll Fred Thompson Wins Georgetown County Straw Poll FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 28, 2007 Contact: Tom Swatzel (843) 357-1673PAWLEYS ISLAND, SC--Former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson convincingly won the Georgetown County Republican Party presidential primary straw poll today with 46% of the votes, while second and third place finishers Congressman Ron Paul and Governor Mitt Romney had 18% and 17% respectively. Georgetown County Republican Party Chairman Tom Swatzel said, "Senator Fred Thompson and his committee are to be congratulated for their efforts today. It's clear his supporters are well organized and...

Wed Jul 18, 11:45 AM ET The Nation -- There is no question that Americans are frustrated with the current Congress. Polls suggest that approval ratings for the U.S. House and Senate are even more dismal than those for President Bush -- although not quite so bad as for Vice President Cheney. But are Americans merely frustrated with the current Democratic leadership of the House and Senate, or are they disenchanted, as well, with the leaders of the Republican caucuses? An indication of the indignation with Republican leaders came from a unique Georgia special election Tuesday, in which two...

Paul faithful flock to Spartanburg appearance A little-known Texas congressman seeking the Republican nomination for president visited Spartanburg on Saturday and seemed to arrive with all the makings of rock-star candidate for his party — despite polling low, little name recognition and a relatively small campaign staff. Supporters call it the “Ron Paul Revolution.” You might’ve seen it on signs or T-shirts. Or MySpace. Paul received no less than 16 standing ovations during his hour-plus speech and question-and-answer session at the Summit Pointe Event Center — first, when he entered the room, a second one when a re-entered after...

Paul the apostate Jul 19th 2007 | LAKE JACKSON, TEXASFrom The Economist print editionIs this would-be president brave or crazy? RON PAUL, a libertarian Republican congressman from Texas, likes to say what he thinks. And among the things he thinks is that the census is a violation of privacy. He has opted out of the congressional pension programme. He claims never to have voted for a tax increase, or for an unbalanced budget, or for a congressional pay rise and never to have gone on a congressional junket. He wants to return to the gold standard. Most notably, he strongly...

Ron Paul Will Place Second at Ames Posted by: Patrick Ruffini at 1:48 AM You heard it here first. He leads the second tier in cash-on-hand. He was able to get 1,200 people out to the Hy-Vee (has any candidate done something that big on their own, not at an RPI event?). His home base in Texas isn’t that far of a drive, and his people are motivated enough to come in from out of state for him. And he’s making a big push on his Web site, which for all intents and purposes, is his campaign. Romney, given his dominant...

NAME TOTAL [ARMY] [NAVY] [AIRFORCE] [VETERAN] RON PAUL 23,465 [6,975] [6,765] [4,650] [5,075] MCCAIN 15,825 [6925] [6305] [1795] [800] ROMNEY 3,551 [2,051] [0] [1500] [0] RUDY 2,320 [1,450] [370] [250] [250] HUNTER 1000 [0] [1000] [0] [0] HUCKABEE 750 [250] [0] [500] [0] TANCREDO 350 [350] [0] [0] [0] BROWNBACK 71 [71] [0] [0] [0] THOMPSON 0 [0] [0] [0] [0] Units are contributions in dollars by employees of the respective military organizations.Source: Finance Reports for the 2007 July Quarterly.Percentages: 52.53% Ron Paul 35.4% McCain 7.9% Romney 5.2% Rudy 2.2% Hunter 2.6% Others*Note: The numbers for the last five...

July 13, 2007 McCain campaign running out of money CNN has learned McCain’s campaign has only $250,000 left. WASHINGTON (CNN) – CNN has learned the already-dire situation for Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign has actually gotten even worse, with two sources close to the candidate saying the campaign only has a paltry $250,000 left.The sources tell CNN that next week the McCain campaign will reveal it has about $1.75 million in unpaid debts, wiping out the $2 million in cash-on-hand the campaign currently has in the bank.

The Iconoclast GOP Candidate Catches on in Washington State By Eli Sanders How did a Republican Texas Congressman named Ron Paul become a darling of the Washington State Meetup scene? It all began, oddly enough, with Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell and a stand she took against the international sex trade. In 2004, Cantwell became a prominent voice behind the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act, which was intended to fight "human trafficking"—mail-order brides and the like. This highly displeased Adam Berman, 40, of Gig Harbor, who runs LatinLoveSearch.com, which he calls "the largest free Latin-themed dating website on the internet." His...

An Interview with Presidential Candidate Congressman Ron Paul June 28, 2007   Muckraker Report: You seem to have a stronger anti-war stance than even many of the Democratic candidates: unlike Hillary Clinton, for instance, you voted against the Iraq war.  In terms of foreign policy, what would a Ron Paul presidency look like? Congressman Ron Paul:  Well, it certainly wouldn’t involve going to war with countries that pose no threat to us.  The 2002 Iraq war resolution transferred the authority and responsibility for waging war from the legislature to the executive branch, which is a total breach of the principles...

Ron Paul, for the People Can a libertarian Republican appeal to Democrats?Brian Doherty | June 15, 2007 Ron Paul may not be the next president of the United States, but he is already in effect the president of meetup.com. You might remember that online community site from the Howard Dean explosion leading into the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries. It was widely credited with being key to his burgeoning people power that scared the rest of the Dem pack four years ago.Deanmania ruled for a while, at least until votes were actually cast. He did not, as you might notice, end...

Four states have passed laws that reject federal rules regarding a national identification system. This casts serious doubt on the future of the 2005 Real ID Act that goes into effect in December 2009. New Hampshire and Oklahoma joined Montana and Washington state in the passage of statutes that refute guidelines set forth in the Act. However, these actions could eventually lead to drivers licenses issued in these states to not be accepted as official identification when boarding airplanes or accessing federal buildings. In addition to these four states, members of the Idaho legislature intentionally left out money in...

Analyst Predicts One Million Ron Paul Supporters Online by 2008 Ron Paul's online support is continuing to grow based on evidence provided by online analyst. Washington D.C. (PRWEB) June 10, 2007 -- An online analyst at USAElectionPolls.com observes that Ron Paul, a Republican presidential candidate, is continuing to grow in popularity. Despite languishing near the bottom of the presidential polls with 1%, Ron Paul has become an Internet phenom. As a favorite of the youthful 18-29 year olds, he has become a household name for those that frequent the popular Web 2.0 websites such as YouTube, MySpace, and Digg. "Ron...

Civil Rights Leader Charged With Incest AP LEESBURG, Va. (June 9) - A civil rights leader who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been charged with incest. The Rev. James L. Bevel, 70, was arrested late last month in Alabama, where he has been living, after being indicted on one count of unlawfully committing fornication. On Saturday, defense attorney Buta Biberaj said no plea had been entered yet and it would be premature for her to comment. A bail hearing is set for June 14. Bevel appeared briefly in Loudoun County Circuit Court on Friday but...

The era of tax-free e-mail, Internet shopping and broadband connections could end this fall, if recent proposals in the U.S. Congress prove successful. State and local governments this week resumed a push to lobby Congress for far-reaching changes on two different fronts: gaining the ability to impose sales taxes on Net shopping, and being able to levy new monthly taxes on DSL and other connections. One senator is even predicting taxes on e-mail. At the moment, states and municipalities are frequently barred by federal law from collecting both access and sales taxes. But they're hoping that their new lobbying...

MSM In No Rush to Reveal Hillary Flunked Bar Exam Posted by Mark Finkelstein on June 1, 2007 - 08:26. If George W. Bush had gone to law school and later flunked the bar exam, you can imagine that fact would have become a virtual part of his name in the MSM, as in "George Bush, who failed the bar exam, today criticized a law that . . ." But it came as news to me when Carl Bernstein mentioned on this morning's "Today" that Hillary flunked the Washington, DC bar exam back in the '70s. OK, I'm not the...

Ron Paul Odds Slashed Dramatically: 15 to 1 from 200 to 1 Carrie Stroup here with some startling news concerning Ron Paul.  Sportsbook.com (see website here) had experienced such a dramatically insurgence of betting action on Mr. Paul over the past two weeks they were forced to slash odds from 200 to 1 to the current 15 to 1 odds."Ron Paul is a serious contender whose grass roots campaign is growing dramatically," explains Payton O'Brien, Senior Editor of Gambling911.com, one of the world's leading political betting news sources.  "No other single candidate for US President has received the type of...

Ron Paul Nearly Doubles Donations Since Butting Heads with Rudy Giuliani onroe, Ga. 5/31/2007 3:09 PM GMT (FINDITT) The general feeling after the Republican Presidential debate held in South Carolina on May 15 was that Rudy Giuliani got the better of Texas Republican Ron Paul but according to Paul backers the congressman has seen his donations nearly double since challenging Giuliani on the U.S. involvement in Iraq.During the debate Paul was asked whether a Republican could stay true to their party and support a measure to bring American troops home at the same time. In response Paul remarked “I think...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Longshot Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Thursday gave front-runner Rudy Giuliani a list of foreign-policy books to back up his contention that attacks by Islamic militants are fueled by the U.S. presence in the Middle East. "I'm giving Mr. Giuliani a reading assignment," the nine-term Texas congressman said as he stood behind a stack of books that included the report by the commission that examined the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Giuliani was mayor of New York when Islamic militants slammed two commercial airliners into the World Trade Center, a role...

PARIS (AP) - France's new immigration minister ruled out the possibility of legalizing undocumented immigrants on masse, saying Monday that government policy would be firm and pragmatic.Brice Hortefeux heads the Ministry of Immigration and National Identity - newly created by President Nicolas Sarkozy to manage the inflow of immigrants and protect French values and cohesion."We have to put aside massive legalization. It doesn't work and it penalizes, even immigrants," Hortefeux said on Europe 1 radio. Policy, he added, would be guided by "firmness and humanism" with "lots of pragmatism." He said he planned to adhere to the policy of deporting...

Thursday, April 12, 2007 DNC appoints RIAA shill to run Public Affairs for convention Today, Jenni Engebretsen was named "Deputy CEO for Public Affairs," for the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver -- but she is better known as the Director of Communications for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The RIAA is the most hated "company" in America, according to a recent poll on the Consumerist. The RIAA's campaign of suing thousands of American music lovers has been the single biggest PR disaster in recent industrial history -- which is why Engebretsen's employer beat out Halliburton, Blackwater and...