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October 05, 2007, 5:00 a.m. Being John McCainThe man to meet America’s challenges. Today the lives of all Americans are affected in countless ways by forces and events from abroad — seemingly beyond our control. Never before in our history have we experienced an international climate of such complexity, posing at one extreme, threats of incalculable destructive power, and at the other, means and opportunities for lifting humankind to a quality of life unparalleled in human history. Whether we deter the former and advance toward the latter must not be left to chance among officials whose inexperience requires them...

GOP PRESIDENTIAL TRUST DINNER October 16, 2007 7:00pmNational Building Museum 401 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20003 Join your fellow Republicans on October 16, 2007 for a special dinner to benefit the RNC Presidential Trust, featuring our 2008 Presidential candidates. Under federal election law, the RNC is able to spend up to $17 million to support our Republican nominee next year, and the RNC is the only source of such contributions available to our nominee. The RNC's Presidential Trust will play a critical role in determining who our next President is. This Dinner is a tremendous opportunity to see...

I'm sure that 9/11 conjures up the most nightmares for Mayor Giuliani, er, ah, that is, until Friday night's ferry ride in the Straits of Mackinac. Was it chance, or divine intervention, that the stars would line up for the following to happen?Mackinac Island, home to the Michigan Republican Leadership Conference the last few days, was overwhelmed by a 'sea of Ron Paul supporters', according to the Detroit Free Press. Well...all good things must come to an end (at least for the night). So that 'sea' of supporters needed to get back to the mainland (Mackinaw City), and I happened...

Ron Paul: Utah turnout wows candidate Before a crowd of 1,000, Republican hopeful speaks about foreign policy, war By Sheena McFarland The Salt Lake TribuneSalt Lake Tribune Article Last Updated:09/16/2007 02:38:49 AM MDT More than 1,000 people gathered Saturday at the Union Pacific Depot in Salt Lake City to rally behind U.S. Rep. Ron Paul in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.     Paul, an obstetrician from Texas, was impressed with the turnout.     "Wow. If they only knew you existed over in Washington, they'd change things over there," he said as he greeted the cheering crowd.     Paul...

McVay: Ron Paul's presidential run isn't the usual GOP politics By Richard McVay   |   Columnist   |   Story updated at 8:37 PM on Thursday, September 13, 2007 Why are the media so scared of one little man? At last week's Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire, held by Fox News, one man stood apart from the crowd: the party's only anti-war candidate, Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. He expressed his astute understanding of traditional Republican and conservative ideals in a demeanor befitting a true statesman, and despite near-childish antics by other candidates - and even the moderators...

Thompson: Leave 'No Child Left Behind' behindby Mark Silva Sometimes, it doesn't take long for a party to disavow the gains of its own leaders. And sometimes, candidates regret their own votes.... Today, Fred Thompson, the former senator from Tennessee and television and film star who has entered the campaign for the Republican Party presidential nomination in 2008, suggested that it's time to leave No Child Left Behind behind. Thompson, campaignining in Florida -- where the president's brother, former Gov. Jeb Bush, also had made public school funding contingent on public school performance -- suggested that the federal government has...

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 MORE EVIDENCE THAT WE ARE EVERYWHERE. Yesterday the guy who bought my dead Toyota showed up at the gate with an extra piece of paperwork. Seems the state didn't believe the low purchase price we stated on the title transfer. Our Bureaucratic Masters demanded that we explain why it was "too low." They compelled us both to swear under The Usual Dire Penalties that the price we stated was genuine. Poor dears. You know they might starve to death if they don't get their share of sales taxes on a 16-year-old heap of busted steel...

How A Dark-Horse Can Win The Nomination By Thomas F. Roeser - The Wanderer PressCHICAGO — Two weeks ago I played political strategist for Ron Paul. In the old days of my mis­spent youth, when I was a hired gun political strategist working for the Minnesota Republican Party, nobody asked whom I was for. They didn’t care. My boss just showed me a candidate and or­dered me to devise a strategy for him/ her at lowest possible cost. And because I liked to continue eating, I did it.It didn’t work out too badly. Af­ter a few of us got the...

Bringing Politics Back to the People - The Do-It-Yourself Campaign of Ron Paul Sean Scallon August 28, 2007 In 1964, just before the New Hampshire primary, an average Joe named Paul Grindle didn’t particularly care for the choice of candidates running for the Republican nomination for President. So he decided to run his own candidate for president. With the help of a few friends and using the most sophisticated marketing techniques at the time, Grindle created a boomlet for Henry Cabot Lodge, former Massachusetts U.S. Senator, 1960 GOP Vice-Presidential candidate and then the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam. Lodge wasn’t...

After Ron Paul Makes Meteoric Gains, Romney "Borrows" Philosophy They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. On the other hand, it does not show much honesty, integrity, or conviction. The latest test of this principle is to watch “1st tier” presidential candidate Mitt Romney start to emulate the political philosophy of “2nd tier” candidate Ron Paul. Ron Paul has been in favor of small government since he became a Congressman. He has been in Congress for ten terms or twenty years.  (Ron Paul is currently listed with 8 to 1 odds of becoming the next US President)Throughout...

US kills controversial anti-terror databaseSubmitted by Layer 8 on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 1:52pm. Long criticized for keeping track of regular everyday citizens, the government’s anti-terror database will officially close Sept. 17.   The Threat and Local Observation Notices or TALON, was established in 2002 by then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz as a way to collect and evaluate information about possible threats to U.S. servicemembers and defense civilians all over the world.  Congress and others protested its apparent use as an unauthorized citizen tracking database.  The TALON system came under fire in 2005 for improperly storing information about some civilian individuals...

What the Media Should Report About the Ames Straw Poll David Terr Lead Analyst Ph.D. Math; Berkeley 8/12/07 Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul Were Clear Winners, Mitt Romney Was a Loser "Often, however, the media do not actually interpret poll results, but instead present simple, straightforward descriptive statements about them... Measures of association, correlation analysis, and multivariate statistical analyses are virtually nonexistent" - Asher, Ohio State University I would first like to congratulate Mitt Romney for his impressive win at the Ames Straw Poll before I start criticizing him and tell you what the media is not reporting. Candidate Official...

On Eve of Straw Poll, Ron Paul Says GOP Has Lost its Way by: T.M. Lindsey Friday (08/10) at 17:16 PM GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul will be the first to admit that he's still trying to catch up with the "Ron Paul Revolution." During a telephone interview before a rally in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, the congressman from Texas confessed: "In many ways, I joined the group of people who started the Ron Paul Revolution, because I also wanted to see significant changes in this country."Paul added, "I, kiddingly but somewhat seriously, say thanks for inviting me to the...

Paul Camp May Catch Romney’s Bus Ron Paul’s supporters are actively encouraging Iowa voters to take advantage of Mitt Romney’s offers of free transportation to the Iowa Straw Poll on Saturday and then, once they are there, to vote for Mr. Paul.... “Some say if Mitt is willing to bus Iowans to Ames for the straw poll, they should take him up on his offer!” says a flier in Iowa and on the Internet ...The flier is topped with a banner that says “2008 Ron Paul News,” but Jesse Benton, a campaign spokesman, said it was the handiwork of independent...

Giuliani: I Misspoke About Ground ZeroAug 10 04:07 PM US/EasternBy LIBBY QUAIDAssociated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he misspoke when he said he spent as much time, if not more, at ground zero exposed to the same health risks as workers combing the site after the Sept. 11 attacks. "I think I could have said it better," he told nationally syndicated radio host Mike Gallagher. "You know, what I was saying was, 'I'm there with you.'" The former New York mayor struck a nerve with firefighters and police officers when he said...

Ron Paul Quietly Converting GOP BelieversBy John FoutTheStreet.com Political Correspondent8/9/2007 12:20 PM EDTURL: http://www.thestreet.com/markets/marketfeatures/10372302.html Why haven't conservatives leaders embraced their own ideals and come out to support Ron Paul in public? I pondered this issue in an article in June. I saw Paul as the one second-tier candidate who might have a chance of a breakout from the pack. It turns out I might have got it right. He has remained the most popular GOP candidate on the Internet. This genuine outpouring of support is rivaled only by that for Barack Obama. Paul remains low in the polls, but his...

Can Liberty Survive Big Government, Big Spending and Big Mud Slinging? Today's comment is by Bob Bauman, The Sovereign Society's Legal Counsel and author of many books and reports on the offshore world and personal liberty. Dear A-Letter Reader, Recently, our Chairman and a founder of The Sovereign Society, John Pugsley, waxed poetically on the sad state of freedom in America. As always, I enjoyed hearing his thoughts as he reflected on a theme that also concerns me: The cancerous growth of the American Empire.Reading afresh about the fundamental principles of America's Founding Fathers made me ponder how little, if...

August 01, 2007, 5:00 a.m. Fusion CandidateThe congressman from Texas has something for all conservatives. By Todd Seavey John Derbyshire is wrong to resist the Ron Paul Temptation. Embrace it. Embrace it: conservatives, libertarians, pro-lifers…Right-minded Americans, all. Sure, Paul, currently hovering in the single digits in polls, looks at first glance like a textbook case of a fringe candidate. And that’s unfortunate, because he ought instead to be our next president — and would be if he made it to the general election, since in a one-on-one match-up with likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, he could fare remarkably well....

Presidential hopeful Ron Paul gets grassroots support By ZACH PLUHACEK / Lincoln Journal StarTuesday, Jul 31, 2007 - 01:56:56 pm CDT Heads nod in Arnold’s Tavern at mention of a hand-painted “Vote 4 Ron Paul” sign along a Lincoln street. Of the 15 people gathered recently around two tables in the back of the Havelock neighborhood bar, chances are one of them made it, or at least knows who did. After all, the members of this local presidential campaign are small in number - not to mention spread out and fighting on behalf of a big underdog. Their candidate, a...

Fred's funds raise fear of flop By: Mike Allen July 30, 2007 01:07 PM EST Fred Thompson plans to announce Tuesday that his committee to test the waters for a Republican presidential campaign raised slightly more than $3 million in June, substantially less than some backers had hoped, according to Republican sources. Thompson plans to make the disclosure in a filing with the Internal Revenue Service, as he continues to operate his prospective campaign as a political organization that does not require disclosure to the Federal Election Commission. Many Republicans had seen the “Law & Order” actor and former U.S....