According to Bloomberg , it’s a dead heat in Iowa among the top tier. This is extremely good news for the Paul campaign, given Cain’s poor organization on the ground in the state and given that Paul’s supporters will likely come out in larger numbers than… Read More
Archives for November 2011
Nullification Movie!
The Foundation for a Free Society and the Tenth Amendment Center have teamed up to produce a documentary about nullification, Thomas Jefferson’s idea for restraining the federal government. Yes, this is outside the glorious Biden/Romney “mainstream” and thus the various thought-control groups that monitor unapproved opinions in our country will be up in… Read More
Cain on Libya: Whaaa?
Evidently it does not matter how many cringeworthy moments Herman Cain induces, and how obviously limited his knowledge is. (Not that he’s running against a pack of geniuses, I concede.) There is a constituency out there that does not care. I had no idea how… Read More
Ron Paul Does Not Have a ‘Cult’ Following
We hear this claim all the time: Ron Paul has a “cult-like” following. I guess because people are so devoted to him, flocking straw polls in droves while supporters of other candidates can’t be bothered to get off the couch to vote for their guy,… Read More
Woods on Iowa Radio: The Christian Case for Ron Paul
I’ve posted this clip everywhere but my own site. Steve Deace is an Iowa radio host whose syndicated program attracts a large evangelical audience. He invited me on his program to make the Christian case for Ron Paul. The result is below. You decide whether… Read More
Help Ron Paul Win Iowa, Which Is 100% Doable
First, participate in the Phone From Home program, which I’ve discussed before. Anyone, Iowan or not, can do this. Second, go door to door. Here’s a good overview of how to do it. Right now it’s a matter of sheer elbow grease.
The Present State of Islamism
The always interesting Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit and author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror , Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq , and Osama bin Laden , has published a useful summary of recent events in the Muslim world. A sample: The revolt in Egypt perhaps provides the finest example of… Read More
How to Deal with Debate Bias Against Ron Paul
UPDATE: I’ve added a couple annotations toward the end of the video to deal with a good objection. UPDATE II: Daniel Beaulieu writes: “I am getting web designers and Paulites together at 8PM to bounce ideas around to make Tom’s idea come to reality. Be… Read More
Austrian Economics Is ‘Unscientific’
You will get this once in a while. More than 95 percent of the time it will come from people who have never heard of or read anything by Ludwig von Mises. I got it in response to my post “Austrian Economics Is Common Sense” (which was in fact not… Read More
The Anniversary That (Almost) Everyone Overlooked
Yesterday was the 213th anniversary of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, that great Jeffersonian document that made the case for state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws. I meant to blog about this but simply forgot. (In my defense, I have been feeling under the weather,… Read More