I don’t have any particular insight into the newsletter issue, having been in high school and college at the time, but I’ll share a few thoughts in light of all the requests I’ve been getting. Jamie Kirchick wonders why libertarians “don’t care” about the newsletters.…
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I made this video both for its own sake and to provide a model of what I think would be a good caucus speech for Ron Paul. (One supporter of each candidate gets to give a roughly two-minute speech at each of the caucuses.)

And these are the people who want to “spread democracy” around the world. “People are going to look at who comes in second and who comes in third,” Governor Terry Branstad told Politico. “If [Mitt] Romney comes in a strong second, it definitely helps him going…
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Dole endorses Romney. I’d love to live in a country whose people were awake enough that the endorsement of a middle-of-the-road, no-principles, Establishment man would be a liability.

Someone on my Facebook fan page asked about a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison on October 28, 1785. The person said his leftist friends were waving this letter around as evidence that Jefferson was some kind of semi-socialist wealth redistributionist. I contacted my friend Marco Bassani,…
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I have to admit, I got a kick out of this. One of the entrants in Operation Stump for Paul, which invited people to submit sample Iowa caucus speeches, submitted a serious entry and a not-so-serious entry. Here’s the latter. (Entrants knew I would be…
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The results of the latest Public Policy Polling poll in Iowa: Paul 23% Romney 20% Gingrich 14% Santorum 10% Bachmann 10% Perry 10% Huntsman 4% Johnson 2% But see Tim Carney, who warns that the GOP establishment will be out for the kill when Ron wins. Far…
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Des Moines Register endorses Romney. By the way, does the Register employ high-school interns to write its endorsements? We read: “Ron Paul’s libertarian ideology would lead to economic chaos and isolationism, neither of which this nation can afford.” Apart from the puerile-serioso “this nation,” what is…
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While guest hosting the Peter Schiff Show yesterday I had a chance to interview Mark Sisson, author of (among other titles) The Primal Blueprint and his latest, The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation . It was a great conversation, and an excellent introduction to the Primal Blueprint, which has yielded such good health results for so many…
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