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,…
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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…
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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 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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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I have interacted with quite a few opponents of the free market, both socialists and “traditionalists,” who have looked to the medieval guilds as a great example of how society can be organized without the alleged dog-eat-dog competition of the market. Under the guilds, competition…
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Someone made a YouTube out of the reply I made to a caller while guest hosting the Peter Schiff Show yesterday (Thursday, November 10). The caller wanted to know what percentage of total wealth I would be comfortable with the top one or five percent of earners owning,…
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Is the collection I co-edited for Basic Books, We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now . Here I discuss it with Jeff Tucker.