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by James Buchanan

The Iowa Straw Poll is going to happen on August 11th. For basic information go here. The Iowa Straw Poll is the first significant vote in the Republican primary and could make the difference between victory and defeat. There is an entry fee of $35, but you get to see Ron Paul speak and if you’re an Iowa resident, you get to vote for him. (It may be good to register as a Republican before the event.)

Let’s say you can’t make it to Ames, Iowa, on August 11th for the straw poll. What can you do to affect the Iowa straw poll?

Thanks to the miracle of the cell phone and unlimited weekend calling, you can call up people in Iowa and encourage them to vote for Ron Paul. You can look up phone numbers in Iowa on:

http://www.whitepages.com/ (more…)

by Ian Mosley

The British military has now introduced censorship on its personnel similar to that which the United States imposed some time ago, in order to prevent individual soldiers from exposing another Abu Ghraib or similar event.

According to “This Is London” magazine, “The Ministry of Defence has introduced new guidelines to prevent military personnel talking about their experiences as members of the Armed Forces.Soldiers, sailors and air force members will be prevented from blogging, taking part in surveys, speaking in public or posting on bulletin boards, according to The Guardian. They will also be barred from playing multi-player computer games and sending text messages, photographs and audio or video material without permission if they relate to defence matters.”

Admittedly, the long British tradition of checkbook journalism has made such a regulation a little bit more reasonable than in the US This is London reports: “[the new censorship regulations] come after the row earlier this year about two members of the Royal Navy selling their stories to the media after being held captive in Iran. Receiving money for interviews, conferences and books which draw on official defence experience has now been banned. The rules apparently also apply to Territorial Army members and cadets when they are on duty, as well as to civil servants working for the MoD.” In other words, no blowing the whistle on the next Abu Ghraib or you get in trouble. (more…)

by Jeff Davis

Part of the Constitutional duty of Congress is to oversee the behavior of the executive branch and make sure they don’t do stupid things like invading foreign countries for no reason, giving away the store to big financial interests, betraying the American people, little things like that. One of the reasons why we’re in the mess we’re in today is that Congress has signally failed to do this for the past several presidencies. Now the Democrats are making at least a spasmodic attempt to go through the motions of oversight, and the White House is basically telling them to bug off, with lies so palpable that they would insult the intelligence of a ten year-old.

According to a recent news article, “E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House officials who had electronic message accounts with the Republican National Committee…The Bush administration may have committed extensive violations of a law requiring that certain records be preserved… the RNC has preserved no e-mails for 51 officials, said the interim report, issued by committee chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif.” (more…)

by Jeff Davis

The 19 hijackers on 911 were all Middle Eastern men –many here on student visas. About a month before the 911 attack, George Bush got a warning that said: “Bin Ladin determined to strike in the US.” Amazingly Bush was able to get this warning without the warrantless wiretaps, which he continues to insist are so vital. Maybe we don’t need warrantless wiretaps. Maybe we need intelligent politicians, who take security warnings (and hurricane warnings) seriously.

The only problem back then was that the commander-in-chief didn’t do anything after getting a warning. He either knew the attack was coming and let it happen or he was so unbelievably negligent that he failed to deport Arab students, including the ones in flight school. The entire “terrorist” problem could be solved overnight if only we stopped allowing immigration from Muslim nations and deported the Arabs and Iranians, who have recently come here. (more…)

by Jeff Davis

The neocons have two plans to remain in power in Washington. Plan A involves getting a Republican elected who’s in their pocket and the pocket of the Israel lobby. Plan B involves getting a Democrat elected who’s in their pocket and the pocket of the Israel lobby.

The neocons already have their Democrat lined up in Hillary Clinton, whose lips are pressed firmly to AIPAC’s posterior. But there is still some difficulty, apparently, in getting all the GOP candidates properly corralled.

According to the Washington Times, “Most Americans disapprove of the Iraq war and of exporting democracy by force, yet neoconservative proponents of those policies advise the leading Republican presidential hopefuls. ‘There is an overwhelming presence of neoconservatives and absence of traditional conservatives that I don’t know what to make of,’ said Richard V. Allen, former Reagan White House national security adviser…. Advisers to Sen. John McCain of Arizona include [Jew] Robert Kagan, co-founder of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century (PNAC), while former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s policy team includes [Jew] Norman Podhoretz, a founder of the neoconservative movement, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gets advice from [Jew] Dan Senor…” (more…)

by Jeff Davis

Ever since the passionate and outraged public reaction to the Congressional Amnesty Bill of last May and June, the politicians are finally becoming at least dimly aware that Americans are upset and enraged as they watch their country transforming itself into northern Mexico.

Some politicians on the federal and even more on the state level are finally realizing that there are votes to be won if they are seen as “tough on immigration.” State politicos are realizing that they can ride the immigration hobby horse on to bigger and better things. Most of them really don’t care about the issue. While the Founding Fathers were men of vision, modern politicians are petty, self-absorbed and very often clueless about what ordinary Americans want. (more…)

By Rep. Ron Paul

While fear itself is not always the product of irrationality, once experienced it tends to lead away from reason, especially if the experience is extreme in duration or intensity. When people are fearful they tend to be willing to irrationally surrender their rights.

Thus, fear is a threat to rational liberty. The psychology of fear is an essential component of those who would have us believe we must increasingly rely on the elite who manage the apparatus of the central government.

The statement “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” has been attributed to Benjamin Franklin. It is clear, people seek out safety and security when they are in a state of fear, and it is the result of this psychological state that often leads to the surrender of liberty. (more…)

by James Buchanan

Pat Tillman gave up a 3.6 million dollar NFL contract to join the Army and fight al Qaeda. Tillman joined the elite Army Rangers and was fighting in the mountains of Afghanistan. He was then transferred to the Iraq War. Tillman, however, didn’t believe the Iraq War was justified. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that he called the Iraq War “illegal” and encouraged a friend to vote for John Kerry in 2004. Tillman was eventually able to transfer out of Iraq and return to Afghanistan, where he was killed under mysterious circumstances.

The military has slowly released the following information, which has been published piecemeal by the news media:

1).At first the military claimed Tillman died fighting the Taliban and earned a Silver Star in his last action. This story contained the most falsehoods and was exposed long ago.

2).There was a “friendly fire” incident. (It’s true that one ranger patrol fired on the other ranger patrol, but the shots that killed Tillman were fired from 10 meters or less, suggesting murder.)

3).Tillman’s diary disappeared. (more…)

by Jeff Davis

Another major mortgage lender is now swirling around the bowl. The business-oriented Bloomberg news service reports “American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. shares plunged 90 percent after the lender said it doesn’t have cash to fund new loans, stranding thousands of home buyers and putting the company on the brink of failure. Investment banks cut off credit lines, leaving American Home without money yesterday for $300 million of mortgages it had already promised, the Melville, New York-based company said in a statement today. It anticipates that $450 million to $500 million of loans probably won’t get funded today, and the lender may have to sell off its assets. ‘They can’t function without access to capital,’ said Bose George, an analyst with KBW Inc. in New York. ‘The company either has to file for bankruptcy or go through some type of rescue or restructuring, and either way will leave almost nothing for the common shareholders.’”

It’s called the law of diminishing returns. A certain number of loans are expected to fail, and the failures are starting to exceed expectations. Even worse is the fact that many homes have plunged 20 percent in value, meaning the mortgage lender is losing a lot of money per bad loan. The “home lending industry” has been scraping the middle and the bottom of the barrel for some time. In an effort to do as many home loans as possible, a few lenders have started to scrape the bottom of the barrel. American Homes however was not doing high risk loans. They were just one notch below the best loan category. This is why their bankruptcy is such a shock to people. Imagine how many bottom feeder home loan companies are in similar if not worse shape. (more…)

by Jeff Davis

A CNN article reports “In 2005, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Bridge Inventory database concluded the (I35 Minneapolis) bridge was ’structurally deficient.’ Minnesota Department of Transportation bridge engineer Dan Dorgan said the term ’structurally deficient’ is a Federal Highway Administration rating. Inspectors rate sections of the bridge on a 1 to 9 scale, with 9 being in excellent condition, he said. ‘A structurally deficient condition is a bridge that would have a rating of 4 either in the deck, the superstructure or the substructure,’ he said. ‘Any one of those in condition 4 or less is considered structurally deficient.’ ”

A recent report on the bridge noted that there were cracks in important main structural elements, which should have led to the bridge being shut down until they were repaired. The extreme temperature range in Minnesota and corrosive salts and anti-icing sprays tend to accelerate corrosion. The Minnesota Department of Transportation was repairing the road surface on the bridge, which was badly worn, but the support structure was in even worse shape. Repairing the road surface is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. (more…)