Look at how casually he calls for war with Iran — like a cafeteria patron choosing his lunch menu.
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10 January 2012
If Paul is such an inadequate vehicle for having these ideas heard — and everyone pointing to the benefits of Paul’s candidacy, especially on the Left, understands perfectly what his faults are — why doesn’t Drum unveil the roster of national political figures with a serious platform who are making these points instead? The answer is obvious: there are none.
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5 January 2012
Even if one accepts that Ron Paul is a racist looney and that Randian ideology is a form of toxic mind cancer, we’re still left with a Democratic Party hopelessly addicted to war finance and that thinks nothing of killing dozens of children from flying robots, refusing to answer questions about those deaths because they’re “secret”, starting wars without congressional approval, indefinitely detaining people without recourse to the courts, murdering and torturing people including American citizens without a shred of due process, blanket surveillance without warrants, incredibly harsh penalties for drug possession, use and sale, and so on.
—Echo
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I’m torn by Ron Paul, if you aren’t. I’m torn before I’ve even read Greenwald’s piece, because I came to the same sad conclusion independently. Ron Paul is closer to my position on VERY GRAVE matters of civil liberties than anybody else on the right or left. The fact that he is part of a kook movement that opposes public roads is not so much a deterrent to Paul as a horrible, horrible indictment of the Democratic Party, that we have to look to the KOOKS of the Republican Party for somebody who is morally decent. The simple fact of the necessity of this contrast is a scathing indictment of where we are and where the Democratic Party has gone.
—Echo
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17 December 2011
Obama to sign indefinite detention bill into law
Both groups pointed out that this is the first time indefinite detention has been enshrined in law since the McCarthy era of the 1950s, when — as the ACLU put it — “President Truman had the courage to veto” the Internal Security Act of 1950 on the ground that it “would make a mockery of our Bill of Rights” and then watched Congress override the veto.
Well, at least there’s that. We’ve been to the brink and recovered before.
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16 December 2011
Hullabaloo
This is the Republican offer. A bevy of ideas by turns unpopular, insane, counterproductive and harmful, each one worse than the last—and all offered as the price tag for a tax cut that Democrats would be happy to pass alone. The Democrats, meanwhile, half-heartedly demanded a popular and useful millionaire’s tax before caving nearly instantly when Republicans refused to play ball.
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9 December 2011
Spending less on fake Democrats
What a shocking calculation. (And here the article talks about “the math” like it’s some kind of complicated algorithm.)
This is as it should be. There is a certain amount of money to be spent. Why should liberal groups be forced to spend it on people who have gone out of their way to thwart their agenda. I think all of those people should go to the conservatives who benefit from their votes and ask them for the money.
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3 December 2011
This is such a good idea I don’t see why we can’t apply this to criminal law as well. After all, if the government just “knows” who’s guilty and who isn’t we it could save scads of money on trials. It’s really very inefficient and shows such a lack of trust in our government to always do the right thing to force them to prove such things.
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30 November 2011
Because the powers that be have so thoroughly rigged the game for their own advantage, most members of the Legislature routinely return to office every other year after elections that have been reduced to Soviet-style jokes.
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23 November 2011
No Deal Over A Bad Deal (by Senator Sanders)
