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Ron Paul Supporters: Enough Already! Wake Up and Smell The Racism (VIDEO)

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Ron Paul's Followers

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Fox's Napolitano: Government exists 'to take away human freedom' (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart challenges Fox News’s legal analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano, on his... more

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Whacky Woman Wants Small Businesses to NOT Hire New Workers

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Extended Interview: Ron Paul visits 'The Daily Show' (VIDEO)

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10 Koch plants that put the most Americans at risk

Koch Industries is lobbying to prevent tougher counter-terrorism standards for its... more

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The most dangerous idea ever: why the tea party is right after all. Sort of. | Scholars and Rogues

It must suck to be a libertarian. If you wanted to live in a country with lots and... more

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GOP Madness 2012: Cruella DeVille Bracket results…now with 30% more crazy!

Ron “Droopy” Paul. Harold Stassen, Ralph Nader, Lyndon LaRouche. Some... more

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Libertarians : Conservative's attention seeking little brother !?

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Pissing on an Imaginary Tree

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Rand Paul's Abortion, Immigration Hypocrisy - The Daily Beast

The new senator's pushing to ban abortion while also restricting birthright citizenship. Ben Adler on the contradictory pulls on the Constitution and the resurgence of Republicans' social issues.

Sometimes new members of Congress take some time to get settled in before proposing legislation.

Not Rand Paul, the new Republican senator from Kentucky. Paul inherited many traits from his father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX): Like his dad, Rand is a doctor who entered politics to advance a fiercely held commitment to the family's quirky ideology. (The enthusiastic young volunteers for Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign called it "Goldwater conservatism" in reference to Barry Goldwater, the patron saint of the small-government set, not Paul's desire to return to the gold standard. And this week it became apparent that—like his father, who has introduced many quixotic bills such as the Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act—Rand Paul intends to regularly introduce legislation with no realistic chance of passing.

While Paul might be expected to take after his father in this regard, the causes he has taken up have been surprising. Whereas Ron Paul has focused his career on fiscal conservatism and foreign-policy isolationism, Rand Paul is promoting socially conservative positions.

On Monday, Paul announced that he is joining Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) in cosponsoring the Life at Conception Act. The law would declare that a person's life begins at conception. Paul and Wicker reason that if fetuses become legal persons protected under the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the laws, then it will override the constitutional right to an abortion that the Supreme Court found in Roe v. Wade.

Of course, if fetuses had all the rights of a person, it might lead to interpretations that—ironically, given that Paul campaigned on a strong commitment to privacy and liberty,—would vastly expand government power. For example, if a pregnant woman smokes or drinks alcohol, or simply eats unhealthily, could she face prosecution for reckless endangerment of a child? In any case, Paul confidently predicted that "passage of the Life at Conception Act would reverse Roe v. Wade without the need for a constitutional amendment."

But he is not averse to amending the Constitution when necessary. On Thursday, Paul and Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) introduced a resolution that would amend the Constitution to prevent children born to illegal immigrants from gaining automatic citizenship. Under the current interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which Paul and Vitter oppose, citizenship is given automatically to anyone born on U.S. soil. So Paul wants to expand the 14th Amendment to cover the fertilized embryos of American citizens while restricting it to exclude the babies of illegal immigrants. It's not clear where the fetus in an illegal immigrant's uterus would fit into this equation.

That Paul is focusing on social issues suggests the new crop of Republicans in D.C. may not be any less socially conservative, or any less interested in social issues, than their predecessors.

It's notable that Paul has decided to start his career with multiple pieces of legislation that take a staunchly conservative stance on a contentious social issue. During the 2010 campaign, there was much chatter about how the Tea Party movement was focused on economic and financial issues rather than emphasizing cultural battles like gun control, gay rights, abortion and immigration that played a prominent role in previous Republican campaigns. While some Republican candidates, such as Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, had a long history of promoting social conservatism, Paul was regarded as the epitome of the new GOP. Paul opposes the Patriot Act and the federal war on drugs, which was an electoral liability for him. That Paul is focusing on social issues suggests the new crop of Republicans in D.C. may not be any less socially conservative, or any less interested in social issues, than their predecessors.

Or maybe it's just a sign that the traditionalist wing of the GOP is resurgent and will be getting more attention in the months ahead. Some major conservative institutions like the Family Research Council and the Heritage Foundation are boycotting the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference to protest the inclusion of GOProud, a gay organization. Several potential 2012 Republican candidates, including Ron Paul, are expected to speak at CPAC. It will be interesting to see how much time they devote to social issues.The new senator's pushing to ban abortion while also restricting birthright... more

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Tax Cuts for the Rich on the Backs of the Middle Class; or, Paul Ryan Has Balls

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Republican Calls to Drain the Pentagon Swamp Provide Window for Democrats to Climb Through

CATO report on defense cuts shows how libertarians come in handy on national security.... more

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Solar Cycles Cause Climate Change, Not Humans

Get the Solar Facts before getting on the "Humans Cause Global Warming" (AGW) band wagon.

Planetary warming has also been observed on Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, and on Neptune's largest moon Triton during the decades following the peak of the "Solar Grand Maximum" - wonder why - there are no humans there! And Pluto is moving further from the sun in its orbit, thus it should be cooling, but instead it is warming. This is but one blatant indicator that suggests that the climate change on Earth is due to solar changes and our intersellar environment rather than mere human antics. More importantly, the Sun is now changing from its Solar Grand Maximum to its Solar Grand Minimum. The Earth heats up after a Solar Grand Maximum, lagging a bit after the peak. With a Solar Grand Minimum now on its way, a "global cooling" may be on the horizon--a natural oscillation occurring in much longer solar cycles.

Latest science reveals that sharp increases in global warming "precede" sharp increases in CO2--not the other way around. Global warming causes more CO2 to be released form the oceans. Current research also shows that Earth's oceans are now beginning to cool. It is also now clear that temperatures over the last century correlate far better with cycles in oceans than they do with carbon dioxide; and, the temperature cycles in oceans are caused by cycles of the sun. Yet the AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) advocates, as well as the media, continue to ignore all of this, perpetuating fear and advocating spending billions of dollars on non-solutions. Although humans contribute to greenhouse gases, the overall effect is a tiny fraction compared to natural causes. To say humans are the cause of global warming; and to also make predictions that global warming will continue to increase is simply inaccurate. This is not to ignore the silver lining of the global warming scare, as humanity must certainly learn to participate in harmony with nature, with the breath of the Earth and with her land and oceans; and with the cycles of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars. So let us act and change from knowledge about what is really going on rather than from misinformation fueled by mass-hysteria.

The "Solar Grand Maximum" has ended - a science most often not considered by the advocates who profess that Global Warming is caused by man-made CO2" -- those who perpetuate the global warming media scare.

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