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In most polls Paul is neck and neck with the frontrunners among voters 18-35 but then is trounced with voters over 50 and especially over 65 where he garners almost no support.

President Obama glowingly defended the $85 billion auto industry bailout during a speech to Detroit auto workers Friday, saying “the investment was worth it.” But the government still owns 500 million shares of General Motors which, if sold at today’s market price of $20 a share, would leave taxpayers on the hook for $16.5 billion in losses. The U.S. would have to sell its GM stock per $53 a share to break even, far higher than the $20 it is trading at now. The stock liability puts the Obama administration in a double bind. If the stock were sold all...

Earlier this week I posted pictures highlighting the difference between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street protesters. If that didn’t make you question the patriotism of these protesters, maybe this will. A new photograph has surfaced that shows Occupy Wall Street protesters trampling the American flag, showing utter disrespect and contempt for all the men who have fought and died to protect their freedom.

Bill Lerach, the politically-connected lawyer who made a fortune in bringing security fraud class actions against publicly traded companies, pleaded guilty in October 2007 for his role in an alleged decades-long conspiracy pursuant to which serial plaintiffs were paid kickbacks from their court-awarded attorneys' fees in the cases, and during his two-year prison stint a former Hells Angels motorcycle club leader acted as his "unofficial guardian" as reported by Ann Woolner for Bloomberg. The once high-flying legal eagle now is a free man but remains grounded from practicing law, and reflecting back on his lawsuit shtick says he "wouldn't change...

It's a good gig if you can get it. In 2002 James Capasso Jr. applied for a pension upon his supposed retirement from Laborers' Local 1001 as reported by Jason Grotto for the Chicago Tribune. However, he apparently never had a paying job with the local but merely served in "something of an honorary position" as an unpaid auditor. He was appointed in 1984 to the mysterious post by Ernest Kumerow, son-in-law of reputed Chicago Outfit overlord Anthony Accardo, and his timesheets were signed off "by two Local 1001 officials who were eventually ousted from the union because of ties...

As I watched this video of the Atlanta version of Occupy Wall Street there are a few key points that jump out at me. The first is that I would like to personally thank this group of Leftist misfits for proving beyond the shadow of a doubt why our Founders did not establish a true democracy. Despite the fact that all on the Left and sadly even some on the right continue to refer to us as such, we are a Constitutional Republic. Thank God that is the case, because as these fine citizens demonstrate here, minorities have zero rights...