An Anti-Hillary Blog Takes a Second Look at Ron Paul

Anyone But Hillary in 2008!: Could I have been WRONG about Ron Paul?

Its easy to dismiss Ron Paul when his soundbytes are taken out of context or you're constantly being reminded by official media reports that he's: unelectable, unreasonable, or unworthy of serious consideration.

But there is something past all that. There's a serious and principled politician (what a rarity!) who has sound plans to create significant change.

Over at "Anyone But Hillary in 2008," the author takes a second look at Ron Paul's position on the issues, and like a lot of us, he's realizing that its not so easy to dismiss once you start to see some of the details.

Dick Polman's American Debate: Iran report? What Iran report?

Dick Polman's American Debate: Iran report? What Iran report?
What does the recent NIE report that Iran has no nuclear weapons program tell us in this election?

Well, it says a lot about Huckabee!

Not only is Huckabee failing to stay up to date on foreign policy and intelligence developments, he's also showing his Bush-like tendency to cherry-pick reports that back his hawkish tendencies.

Despite being informed about the report, Huckabee still insists that Iran is a grave threat. I think Bush actually made a similar claim yesterday.

Oh, and just so Dick Polman knows: Not all us Republicans are trying to sweep this under the rug. I think a lot of righties woke up to this news today realizing we need to find a better front-runner (again). Kinda tough, we've been given some pretty slim pickings.

gay news blog: Clinton Campaign Announces Launch Of LGBT Americans For Hillary Steering Committee

gay news blog: Clinton Campaign Announces Launch Of LGBT Americans For Hillary Steering Committee

CNN Accused of Clinton plant at CNN debate (Brigadier General Keith Kerr)

Elections Censorship Starts a Buzz

Sean Hannity's political discussion forums have come out with a new policy to ban any Ron Paul threads. Apparently, this rule only applied to threads that say good things about Ron Paul, because the ones bashing him have been unaffected.

However, censorship doesn't work as well as it used to thanks to the internet. You can see the pictures of Ron Paul censored or contribute to the discussion at Digg.

Email isn't in the Constitution, Silly

So why would you assume you have any "privacy" in any sort of electronic communication? Cell phones, email, blogs, IMs, telephones, and pagers didn't exist when the constitution was written, so the government is arguing that you don't have any rights in regards to these forms of communication.
Email Privacy

Giuliani Flunks Civics 101 at the NRA - Saved by Phone Call

Giuliani decided it would be a good idea to go talk to the NRA and re-invent himself as a friend of the bill of rights and the general rights of the people.

If it wasn't for the phone-call in the middle of the speech, he might have revealed that Giuliani doesn't know the bill of rights

Don't Get Excited Republicans

I ain't voting for you either. Its just a lot more self-explanatory.

I Can't Vote for a Democrat in 2008

Personally, its because I see them taking political and campaign donations from the same companies that they accuse conservatives of being "bought by" and then under the pretext of "giving to the poor" they proceed to divert hundreds of billions of dollars into their favorite insurance companies, drug companies, and media companies.

I despise the fact that they can look at a failed product like U.S. health insurance and health care and insist not only that I fund this with 10% of a budget I don't have to begin with, but also that I have to go to the doctor. I don't vote for people who want me to pay them so they can treat me like a kid.

I won't vote for a party that claims to be pro-choice but then doesn't want to let parents choose how to spend their tax dollars on picking a school. Gee, why would a pro-government party want to insist that only government run schools should be "free"?

And whats with the false sense of "free money and stuff" anyway? At the end of the day, you can tax the richest people, the corporate owners, and its just going to mean fewer raises and fewer job creation opportunities or fewer profits for the people who are responsible enough to invest their money.

But remember, the corporations buy the politicians to GET money - this is why Democrats inevitably tax the poor. In nine months of power they have proposed two new taxes - a gas tax and a cigarette tax. Both taxes are on the end product and not the company making the item, so in the end - poor people pay a higher % of their income to pay the new tax.

Thats how it always is unfortunately.


I guess you could say, I won't vote for a mainstream Democrat for the same reason I won't vote for a mainstream Republican. These policies are virtually identical in their ultimate economic/demographic effect. Its just the story that changes...

Hillary's New Plan: You HAVE to Buy Insurance

It sounds great when at the end of the day every has to have insurance. What isn't quite so clear is how this is supposed to stop insurance companies from providing profit-driven care that has little incentive to a cure and every incentive toward building chronically ill life-time customers.

Hillary Clinton's new health-care plan will cost the taxpayers at least a hundred billion dollars a year and it will probably result in higher insurance premiums for people who have relatively good health.

Personally, I've never been healthier since I stopped going to the doctors but I guess they found a way to make me pay for the insurance, drugs, lawyers, and doctors anyway.

(Not) Back to School Again

Fall 2007 - I feel like I should be back at school and in a way I also feel like I am back at school even though I'm not enrolled. I'm not even sure if the local community college has courses in web site design, server/database programming, and SEO, but I'm motivated enough to learn and the internet is a powerful enough library that I'm not sure I need to spend the money and time on classes. Unfortunately, for all my love of learning that degree still carries a lot of weight in the job market. Political science and theories on liberty in society will always be my passion, but without signing up for a mainstream party affiliation there's not much of a job prospect in that.

But one day a career path did finally become clear, and I had to look no further than the writers who had inspired my political philosophies: Publishing.

Publishing is the market of ideas - where plans and thoughts are advertised, sold, and bought. The world has never been the same since this market opened up with the first commercially viable printing presses, and I daresay the progress is overwhelming. It is a powerful industry, and one not to be entered into lightly - the capital you trade influences the collective conscious and alters the path of human history.

Some do it for the money, some do it for the art, and some do it because they think (perhaps naively) that they can make tomorrow better than today.

So This is the Web

So I've been on the internet for a dozen years and I've been online even longer than that but here I am only now getting into the actual act of building a "web presence."

I learned some HTML back in the day and ran a few sites off free webhosts, but there wasn't much of a community in it. A few good communities existed, but they were isolated and many fell apart from just a small bit of competition. Now, the internet is "the last growth market" and it continues to promise expansion for the next few decades. The communities have grown as the population has, and now its like web site developers can have communities of their own!

So this is blogging, huh? Sure I will always have nostalgia for the dial-up gaming days, but now we have Ventrilo and cable-speeds and graphics that were once inconceivable. I'll never forget the first online, local messageboards but now we have blogs and social bookmarking websites and forums and IRC.