“I do not know whether they have brainwashed themselves or what?” said Paul to Bloomberg when asked to comment on the presidential decision to help the economy weather the crippling recession with a USD-787-billion stimulus plan. “For a government that is totally broke, I can hardl...

Hey didn’t this Ron Paul guy have integrity or whatever? He stood up to the Texas GOP and Tom DeLay and the Bush Family, he didn’t have any problem attacking lamers like Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney, but Doctor Ron “Go Ron Paul” Paul is just shivering in his panties when repe...

Will Wilkinson remains on the right track in looking for similarities between (some) liberals and (some) libertarians, while continuing to face objections. He debunks one common objection: The Lump of Liberalism Fallacy That’s what I’m going to call the error I sense lurking beneath a lot of res...

"1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" host David Shuster on Tuesday repeatedly pestered Texas Congressman Ron Paul to publicly attack Rush Limbaugh and seemed frustrated when "even" the outspoken representative wouldn't give him what he wanted. After wondering "why it's so difficult&qu...

There will be much weeping in Ron Paul land: WASHINGTON (CNN) – Ron Paul says he may not make a third run for the White House. The Republican congressman from Texas was asked by CNN American Morning anchor John Roberts if he plans to make another bid for the presidency in 2012. "I don't think so,â...

When Roger Ailes formed FOX News I am sure he was aware of the same phenomena which John Stuart Mill described when he made his famous observation that not all conservatives are stupid, but a whole lot of stupid people are conservative. And FOX News is designed primarily to cater to the lowest commo...

On the 2009 debut of his HBO show Real Time on Friday night, Bill Maher proposed his new solution for the economic crisis: legalize marijuana. In an interview with Rep. Ron Paul, he lectured: "When FDR came into office in '33, one of the first things he did was repeal Prohibition. He said we ca...

Some time overnight I was followed by the Twitter account @vanityfairer, d.b.a. “Vanity Fair Wayfarer” (whence the image above right). As a subscriber to the magazine (at least assuming my reup went through) I followed back and clicked on the sidebar link to learn more. Instead of findin...

As I documented over at That’s My Congress earlier this month, Ron Paul makes a big fuss in his speeches over the General Welfare Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. Article I, Section 8 reads: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,...

Ho ho ho, street thug Barack Obama is gonna kick whitey’s ass clear back to Texas! Wait, what is this horrible thing? Oh, a fanzine for, uh, Ron Paul, the brief and inexplicable Internet fad of late 2007. (At least LOLcats were kind of funny!) Well listen up socialists, the elderly Texan congr...