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Ron Paul’s website for a presidential campaign is up and running. It is barely a placeholder, yet it is the beginning of good things. The official title of the site is the Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Exploratory Committee.
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Ron Paul publishes a weekly column called Texas Straight Talk.  He addresses many issues, many of which involve the economy.  Below is an excerpt from a recent column and the subject of tax cuts.

I apply a very simple test to any proposal to overhaul the tax code: Does it reduce or eliminate an existing tax? If not, then it amounts to nothing more than a political shell game that pits taxpayers against each other in a lobbying scramble to make sure the other guy pays. True tax reform is as simple as cutting or eliminating taxes. No studies, panels, committees, or hearings are needed. When reform proposals seem complicated, they almost certainly don’t cut taxes. Congress should simply focus on cutting existing taxes and reducing spending, instead of complicated overhauls of the system.

He stresses the need to back up tax cuts with real spending cuts.  Otherwise, the government is just playing games with your money.  Spending has to show up somewhere.  If not in a tax, it will increase the debt.

Source: Taxes, Spending, and Debt are the Real Issues

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HOMEOWNERS SUED BY CLEANING LADY WHO MISTAKES FIRECRACKER FOR A CANDLE

A woman from Grand Haven, Michigan filed a lawsuit for more than $25,000 after she was injured by a firecracker she took from a condominium that she had cleaned. While dining later with friends at a restaurant, the woman lit the firecracker claiming that she mistakenly thought it was a decorative candle. The explosion resulted in severe injuries to the woman. She sued the owners of the condo for leaving the firecracker behind without a warning on it. The condo owners said that they had placed the device, which looks like a “huge firecracker,” in a cupboard to keep it away from the children after someone left it at their house after a party.

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California is ready to take the next step in regulating how parents raise their children.

SACRAMENTO — A new bill wants to outlaw parents from spanking their children. The assemblywoman sponsoring the measure wants to protect those who can’t defend themselves, but is it taking governing too far?

Wake up people!  This is what happens when you expect the government to take care of every problem that life throws your way.  We already have the food police, next it will be the parenting nazis.

Speaker Pro Temp Sally Lieber plans to introduce a bill that would ban any form of spanking on kids less than three years old. That’s includes spanking hands, faces or bottoms. Lieber said, “That would include slapping spanking smacking hitting punching, any striking of a child.”

If this trend continues, I can envision the day when the tree-huggers will lobby for legislation that regulates that number of sheets of toilet paper allowed per dump.

Source: FOX40 KTXL | No Spanking Bill

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Ron Paul is probably the most honorable, decent man in Congress, quite possibly the entire U.S. government.  He understands the economy, its shortcomings and how to fix it.  He understands the weaknesses of our monetary system.  Above all, he values individual liberty.  He poses a grave threat to the status quo.  LibiddyBill believes the obstacles are too great to overcome.  I prefer to believe the obstacles are too great to ignore.  Below are his 5 reasons why Ron Paul can’t succeed, they are my 5 reasons why we must see that Ron Paul succeeds.

1) Ron Paul threatens the shadow government. Anyone paying attention with eyes to see knows that the political process given to us and the political leaders handed to us on a platter, do not control the real power in the country. The president and the political leaders, whether donkey or pachyderm, serve masters that don’t visit voting booths. The people who control the money supply make the rules. They fund the Council on Foreign Relations (and here) and the Trilateral Commission, among others, who determine policy. The president is there simply as a ruse. I’m sorry to put it so bluntly. Ron Paul, through serving on the Banking and Finance Committee, is the only person brave enough to ask the likes of Greenspan and Bernanke tough, poignant questions about the handling of fiat money. The powers that be cannot tolerate such a rogue. 

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RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 13 — North Carolina’s attorney general said Saturday that his office would immediately assume control of the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case referred to him on Friday by the Durham County district attorney.

“I wish I could tell you that this case would be resolved quickly,” the attorney general, Roy A. Cooper, said at a news conference here on Saturday afternoon. “Since we have not been involved in the investigation or the prosecution of these cases, all of the information will be new to our office. Any case with such serious criminal charges requires a careful and deliberate review.”

Nifong stepping down was a long overdue move.  He has shown himself to be the epitome of what a D.A. shouldn’t be.  Justice screams for the remaining charges to be dropped against the Duke Lacrosse players.  Any “careful and deliberate review” is a political ploy to let Nifong slip quietly into the night.

Source: Attorney General Agrees to Take Duke Case - New York Times

“Here in New York, we face a digital divide,” he said in his State of the State address Jan. 3. “If you’re a child growing up in South Korea, your Internet is 10 times faster at half the price than if you’re a child growing up in the Southern Tier or in the South Bronx. New Yorkers on the wrong side of the divide simply cannot compete in today’s economy.”

The last thing we need in New York State is government provided internet access.  Look at what the government has done to our electric rates.

In the 1920s and 1930s, nearly everyone in cities had access to electricity and telephones. But many rural Americans did not, until the government stepped in to provide incentives and regulations to spread utility services.

Big deal.  Rural Americans choose to live in rural areas.  That has advantages that us city dwellers don’t have.  They have 2 options, move or put a dish on their house.  Using that logic we should run rapid transit lines to Watertown.

“This is not something New York has thought of in a comprehensive way before,” he said, adding that the cost would be “not astronomical” — less than $100 million.

It is good to see that Comrade Spitzer can throw $100 million around like it is nothing.

Source:  Spitzer wants broadband for upstate

• Spitzer’s executive director and chief executive of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Elliot Sander, is paid $340,000, including a housing allowance and other benefits.
• Spitzer’s downstate chairman of the Empire State Development Corp., Pat Foye, is paid $160,000. An upstate counterpart will soon be named.  That will be almost a third of a million dollars between them.
• Anthony Ernest Shorris. Executive director, Port Authority, $277,000
• Avi Schick. Downstate chief operating officer and president, Empire State Development Corp., $213,000
• Priscilla Almodovar. President and chief executive, State Housing Finance Agency and State Mortgage Agency, $204,350
• Rich Baum. Secretary, $178,500
• Paul Francis. Budget director and senior adviser, $175,680
• Darren Dopp. Communications director, $175,000
• David Nocenti. Counsel, $175,000
• Sean Patrick Maloney. First deputy secretary to the governor, $169,000
• Olivia Golden. Director of state operations, $169,000
• Francine James. Appointments secretary, $165,000
• Marty Mack. Deputy secretary for intergovernmental affairs, $165,000
• Peter Pope. Policy director, $165,000
• Lloyd Constantine. Senior adviser, $155,000
• Richard Rifkin. Special counsel, $155,000

You get the idea and there are a lot more of these positions listed here.