Which Way for the Paul Movement?

Writing in the New York Times, Brian Doherty, author of a recently published book on Ron Paul, asks the question: "For the Ron Paul Wing, Now What?" In the midst of an otherwise insightful and sympathetic piece, we get a disapproving reference to a lawsuit against the...

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Rand Paul: Phony As Ever

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) tries to calm the waters roiled by his preemptive endorsement of Mitt "I'd Bomb Iran" Romney by taking to the pages of National Review Online to "rip" (as Conor Friedersdorf put it) Romney's view that the President doesn't need separate...

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Oh Those Brits!

From an article in the Sun about the alleged attempted rape of a young male soldier at Wattisham air base,  where Prince Harry is based: "A drunken gang of three soldiers allegedly pinned him down as he slept at Wattisham, Suffolk. A military police probe is under...

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Comment of the Day

"I should confess that I'm not a huge fan of presidential monuments anyway, because they reinforce popular deference to executive authority and strengthen the growing tendency to view our presidents as akin to monarchs but with term limits. But I'll concede that a...

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The Three Faces of Jon Huntsman

Someone is playing games on Youtube, and they’ve managed to fool an awful lot of people – mostly “reporters” and bloggers who hate Ron Paul – into falling for one of the more transparent hoaxes of this election season. It all started with an incredibly stupid video...

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Paul’s Foreign Policy Focus

One doesn't have to agree with all of Ron Paul's libertarian views to admire his principled anti-interventionism and opposition to America's eternal wars: clearly his foreign policy positions intersect at the point where character meets ideology. In this interview...

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