Category Archives: Libertarian Lunacy

Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, and John Galt: The Three Stooges.

Rick Santorum Cares About YOU, Black Person! [Updated]

Posted on January 2, 2012 by | 12 Comments

He just has a racist way of showing it. 

I ask of Rick Santorum and his supporters only two things:  One, please stop saying “Santorum Surges From Behind“; two, please stop saying “Santorum Surges From Behind.”

Oh, and by the way?  Mr. Santorum?  Not all black people are on welfare or food stamps.  Not all black people are on drugs.  Not all black people are in prison.  So when you say stuff like –

“I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money… I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money and provide for themselves and their families.”

– it makes me want to slap you upside the head a little. Continue reading →

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Charlie Savage's Partisan Hit Job on President Obama

Posted on January 1, 2012 by | 12 Comments

Charlie Savage’s front page story in the December 30, 2011 New York Times asks the Republican presidential candidates about their views on executive power in what is essentially a sequel to his own interview with candidate Obama in 2007 when Savage worked for the Boston Globe.  As soon as the Obama administration began to provide air support to the Libyan rebels seeking to overthrow the Libyan dicatator and terrorist Gadaffy, Savage began to misrepresent his 2007 interview with then Senator Obama as some kind of Pulitzer-worthy “gotcha” moment.

While the December 30 article purports to be about the Republican candidates’ views on executive power, its primary focus is to reaffirm Savage’s broader narrative of President Obama: that he is just like Bush when it comes to civil liberties in the era of global terrorism. What this October 30th article helps reveal, however, is the theory of executive power that Savage is holding Obama up against is a discredited libertarian notion of weak executive power shared by Ron Paul and Glenn Greenwald views which have no support in constitutional law jurisprudence. Savage also sets up the presidency of George W. Bush as the sole baseline by which to judge the Obama administration’s use of executive power, while ignoring all of Bush’s recent predecessors.  Continue reading →

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Debunking the "Ron Paul Cares About Civil Liberties" Myth

Posted on December 28, 2011 by | 20 Comments

Long-time Balloon Juice commenter (and friend of ABLC) TVHilton is guest blogging over at No More Mister Nice Blog, and he penned a post that is well worth reading:

Last week Glenn Greenwald won the Dumbest Tweet of the Week award with this beauty, about Ron Paul:

Of course, this is laughable to anyone familiar with Paul’s positions on, say, abortion, or the Civil Rights Act (Dave Neiwert has a great piece on this). It’s also ridiculous in the light of the vicious racism in Ron Paul’s newsletters. Greenwald’s response on the former was to point to his terribly-clever1 use of the weasel word “many”; the latter, he dismissed with an airy “they all have serious flaws”.

Greenwald has since doubled down on his tweet, describing Paul as “the only candidate in either party now touting” the “foreign policy and civil liberties values Democrats spent the Bush years claiming to defend”. All of which says much more about Greenwald’s extremly narrow (Libertarian-friendly) conception of “civil liberties” than about either the President or Ron Paul. Continue reading →

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Ron Paul's Missing Radio Interview – The White Supremacist One

Posted on December 25, 2011 by | 91 Comments

“Is This Thing Recording? Check, Check”

I’ve heard Ron Paul described as “plain-spoken” way too many times. I guess if you define “plain spoken” as simplistic and with few words — then yes, he surely fits that definition.

Personally, I’ve never been impressed with that type of person or politician. I often wonder what they are hiding with their simplification. Is it ignorance, bias or just a desire to appeal to the populist crowd?

It is clear that many years ago, Ron Paul either authored or allowed his name to be signed on a newsletter that spewed some of the worst of the racist and anti-Semitic propaganda that was prevalent in the late 80s and 90s. To get caught up on that Ron Paul newsletter story, check out Joy Reid’s writing at The Reid Report.

But this story caught my eye and adds some context to Ron Paul’s denials on the newsletters. In 2006, Ron Paul was scheduled to appear and may have appeared on a White Supremacist radio show called The Political Cesspool. Charles Johnson describes it for us… Continue reading →

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Tweet of the Day: The Philosophy of Ron Paul

Posted on December 20, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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Iowa Frontrunner Ron Paul Thinks Everything is Unconstitutional

Posted on December 20, 2011 by | 14 Comments

Also?  He’s racist.

If this video from Think Progress doesn’t have you laughing at the end, then there’s something wrong with your brainspace: Continue reading →

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Anwar al-Awlaki and #NDAA in context

Posted on December 19, 2011 by | 14 Comments

I first saw an American “Hellfire” missile while covering a U.S. Army training exercise near the DMZ in South Korea*. It was loaded on an Apache AH-64 attack helicopter, which was bristling with weaponry that also included a pod of 2.76” Hydra rockets and a vicious-looking, swivel-mounted chain gun under its nose, which I was informed fired explosive 30-milimeter rounds and was “linked” to a monocle attached to the gunner’s helmet – meaning that the gun always pointed at exactly what the gunner was looking at.

These were details I learned after being nearly tackled by the sergeant in charge of the refueling point – I had innocently wandered around the front of the aircraft, hoping to get some usable file photos of the division’s Apaches up close. A rule I hadn’t yet heard held that under no circumstances should anyone ever walk in front of that chain gun.

“It’s bad juju,” the NCO told me, as I dusted off my BDUs.

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UPDATE the Third: California Politician Calls for Assassination of President Obama and His Children on Facebook

Posted on December 19, 2011 by | 51 Comments

This story has already developed into two distinct lines of inquiry. One pertains to the individual who appears to have posted the threat, the other to bizarre developments I unearthed when I looked closer at the article which provoked his outburst.
To reduce any confusion, I am separating these stories into two separate developing blog posts. This one will concentrate on Mr. Manson, the other will consolidate everything I’ve discovered about unelected.org. When I have further updates for either post, I will post them at the top for your convenience. Stay tuned. – Allan

UPDATE 3

Jules Manson’s Facebook page features a status update describing his visit from Secret Service agents; Manson resumes being a putz.

Manson then resumes being a putz by posting random annoying stuff about race, movies, marijuana and FREEDUMB, including this “announcement” as a candidate for the California Senate.

Har-dee-har. Your fifteen minutes are up.

UPDATE 2

Since this story was initially posted and updated, Mr. Manson responded via Facebook to the Examiner.com story about his threats to President Obama and his children, which then posted to his Facebook page.

For a time, the Examiner.com story was down, causing some to wonder about its legitimacy. We’ve written in the past about the trustworthiness of content on that site, which publishes the contributions of “citizen journalists” who are compensated by the click for their work. Since then, it has been reinstated to the site and can be reached via this link, and I have taken a screenshot for future reference.  Continue reading →

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Moore Award Nominee

Posted on December 15, 2011 by | 14 Comments

Andrew Sullivan endorses Ron Paul.

If you are an Independent and can vote in a GOP primary, vote Paul. If you are a Republican concerned about the degeneracy of the GOP, vote Paul. If you are a citizen who wants more decency and honesty in our politics, vote Paul. If you want someone in the White House who has spent decades in Washington and never been corrupted, vote Paul.

Just returning the favor, Andrew.

See David Frum for the best response.

Paul has had an outsize appeal to writers and intellectuals dissatisfied with the present state of Republicanism. Continue reading →

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