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The RevPac event I attended on Monday night was an quite an experience. First of all, the choice of setting seemed designed to highlight some of the recurring themes in Ron Paul’s presidential campaign. While most of his primary opponents have held Manhattan fundraisers targeting donors in this city’s ever-dwindling, yet still potent, financial services sector, the rigidly anti-corporatist, free market dogma of the Paul campaign-highlighted by the appearance of bearish Euro Pacific CEO Peter Schiff-lent a new dimension to what would otherwise have been a routine campaign fundraiser. The optics of the event were pleasing, which I suppose was...

Seventeen years after it was written, a booklet authored by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Pennacchio has reemerged as a campaign issue. Pennacchio’s Republican rival, Murray Sabrin, has begun distributing copies of the book, calling it a “fascist manifesto” and demanding that Pennacchio not only drop his Senate candidacy, but resign from his state Senate seat as well. Sabrin plans to hold a press conference on the topic this afternoon. "These kinds of things are completely unacceptable. They’re disturbing and they’re hurtful," said Sabrin spokesman George Ajjan, noting that Sabrin's parents were holocaust survivors. "When you come from a background like...

Murray Sabrin is a professor of finance at Ramapo College in Mahwah and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey.TWO HUNDRED years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, a Republican physician from Texas was chosen by the voters in his district to head to Congress in a special election. Of course, 1976 was a presidential year, and incumbent President Gerald Ford was actively working to shore up support from the Republican Party to earn the party's nomination for a new term. So Ford called this freshman congressman into the Oval Office, congratulated him on his victory...

My wife and I attended the Ron Paul Independence Mall rally on Saturday. Although the weather was less than ideal for an outdoor rally that began in the early afternoon, the crowd’s enthusiasm made up for the cool, overcast conditions. Paulites from as far as New Hampshire were in attendance. Before the rally, Rep. Paul spoke to at least 200 members of the Philadelphia meetup group and then held a briefing for about 100 donors who contributed at least $500 per person. Although Dr. Paul had been up since 5:00am to catch his flight from New Hampshire, he was alert,...

Reaffirming Life Thirty Years After Roe vs. Wade Murray Sabrin Thirty years after the Supreme Court ruled that having an abortion is a constitutional right, the pro-life and the so-called pro-choice advocates are probably further apart today then when the Court made its ruling on January 22, 1973. Today, some pro-choicers support partial-birth abortion, or late term abortion, where a fully formed baby is aborted--killed would be the more accurate description--in a gruesome procedure. In a partial-birth abortion, a baby's skull is punctured and its brains are sucked out, causing a collapse of the skull. Even former New York City...