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I mean we're heading into the primary season now with the first big election in Iowa in mere days. Add to that Ron Paul's sweeping momentum and believe me, I've been holding back so that I don't burn you guys out on Ron Paul stuff. Let me know if the Ron Paul focus here as of late has been too much for your tastes, just right, or that you even wouldn't mind it (or even like it) if I blogged about Ron Paul even more. Lemme know! Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

1. A politician making an inoffensive remark about a politically-protected minority group (or gender) will be forced to apologize for being “insensitive.” He will have to grovel before the proper PC authorities and swear that if he could, he would have marched with Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. (or whichever group icon it may be). This may also include asking honest questions about points about liberal dogma ranging from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to speech codes. 2. A foreign lobby will pressure President Obama to commit U.S. troops or U.S. airpower to assist in a civil war, border dispute, or to prevent “ethnic cleansing” in a region that is either oil-rich or not remotely tied to America’s national interests. There will be no declaration of war or even a congressional “resolution” to authorize the action. Republicans will complain that even though Obama does exactly what they want they will insist that he appeared weak in the process, bringing great shame to

Want to know what each Republican presidential candidate has said about the Federal Reserve and monetary policy? Check it out. No politics or spin here, just the facts and the candidates' positions in their own words. Read it all at The Silver Underground . Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

Yeah , this actually happened : Kent Sorenson, the one-time chair of Michele Bachmann's Iowa campaign who threw a jolt into the caucuses by switching to Ron Paul tonight, said he only told Paul officials of his decision when he arrived at a Des Moines rally for the congressman tonight "10 minutes ago," Sorenson, a GOP state senator, told POLITICO about when the Paul campaign found out he was moving to their camp. In one of the most surprising moments of the 2012 campaign, Sorenson strolled on stage just moments before Paul was set to speak and declared that he had switched his allegiance. Just hours earlier, he had been at a Bachmann campaign event with his former candidate. Sorenson's switch is a major boost to Paul's campaign, which has been dogged by criticism from establishment Republicans that his support here was largely among Democrats and independents. Bachmann goes into damage control: A furious Bachmann accused her former chair of being bought

So let me get this straight, people who want to ban guns "to keep us safer" would actually have preferred that 11-year-old Alyssa Gutierrez didn't have a gun on the night her house was attacked by three armed burglars when she was home alone? Many well-meaning people believe that banning guns would make us safer, but my bleeding heart goes out to people like 11-year-old Alyssa Gutierrez, who used one of her family’s guns to defend herself and her family’s house when three armed burglars attempted to break in while young Alyssa was home alone. Without a gun to protect herself, Alyssa, who was taught how to fire it just days before her home was attacked, would have been a helpless victim, not a proud and empowered defender of home and self. Those are actually Alyssa’s words, who told a local news channel: “I felt proud of myself.” Read my entire article at The Silver Underground . Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

Listening to this man's story about his struggle against racial prejudice and Ron Paul's compassion, mercy, and justice literally brought a tear to my eye. Actions speak louder than words: The Compassion of Dr. Ron Paul James Williams of Matagorda County, Texas recounts a touching true story. Living in a still prejudice Texas In 1972, his wife had a complication with her pregnancy. No doctors would care for her or deliver their bi-racial child. In fact one of the hospital nurses called the police on James. Dr. Ron Paul was notified and took her in, delivering their stillborn baby. Because of the compassion of Dr. Ron Paul, the Williams' never received a hospital bill for the delivery. Ron Paul views every human being as a unique individual, afforded the rights endowed by our creator and codified in the Bill of Rights. To help air a broadcast version of this ad in early primary states, donate here http://revolutionpac.com/compassion UPDATE: Ron Paul respo

Local McDonald’s restaurant locations in Northern California will be kicking off 2012 with a kind gesture for California residents struggling in uncertain economic times. For a full two weeks, beginning on Monday, January 2, McDonald’s restaurants throughout Northern California will be giving a “free small Premium Roast Coffee made with 100 percent fire-roasted Arabaca Beans to all customers during business hours with no purchase necessary.” Read my full coverage at IVN.us . Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

If war is so good for the economy, why don’t we just declare a paintball war on Canada? Without using real weapons, we can avoid the moral problems of death and destruction wrought by war– hence paintball. Think of all the “economic stimulus” that would create! Read my entire article at The Silver Underground . Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

Nobody makes gratuitous accusations of racism on my watch and gets away with it. Nobody. The Alinskyite, race-baiting tactic is one I especially loathe for its maliciousness.When it rears its ugly head, I have responded again and again to set the record straight and expose the hypocrisy and deception of the race-baiting mainstream media. I disagree with socialism and the idea that government can morally or effectively provide for our needs from cradle to grave, but I am willing to discuss and debate the matter with earnest proponents of that idea. I have no patience, however, for race-baiters. Gratuitously throwing around accusations of racism is a token of bad faith and a tactic of intellectually dishonest brutes. The success of the piece that I published over the weekend entitled " The Ron Paul newsletter controversy is a textbook liberal smear campaign " is evidence that I'm not the only one who's tired of this garbage. At The Daily Caller , my op ed was p

Hey everybody-- I'm running a contest at the website where I work as the Editor in Chief, The RevoluTimes , to kick off the New Year strong! Check it out and learn about your chance to win free, inflation proof silver! Deadline fast approaching! A special thanks to another website where I work : The Silver Circle Movie , for sponsoring this contest with some free, inflation proof silver coins! Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

A thankless task : Americans probably won’t be seeing a huge ticker-tape parade anytime soon for troops returning from Iraq, and it’s not clear if veterans of the nine-year campaign will ever enjoy the grand, flag-waving, red-white-and-blue homecoming that the nation’s fighting men and women received after World War II and the Gulf War. Officials in New York and Washington say they would be happy to help stage a big celebration, but Pentagon officials say they haven’t been asked to plan one. Most welcome-homes have been smaller-scale: hugs from families at military posts across the country, a somber commemoration by President Obama at Fort Bragg, N.C. With tens of thousands of U.S. troops still fighting a bloody war in Afghanistan, anything that looks like a big victory celebration could be seen as unseemly and premature, some say. “It’s going to be a bit awkward to be celebrating too much, given how much there is going on and how much there will be going on in

2011 was the year that all of the people of the world stood up against the global financial elite and the economic destruction wrought by the century-long modern central banking paradigm. Read all about it in my latest at the Independent Voter Network. Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

A racist these days is all too often really just a conservative winning an argument with a liberal. It should come as no surprise then, that the most principled conservative in the GOP race is being assailed and viciously smeared as a racist because of the content of a newsletter written twenty years ago which he credibly denies writing or having any knowledge of, and has repeatedly disavowed as contrary to his own views. The racist smear is a common and favorite tactic of big government liberals and their collaborators in the mainstream media. In 2009, with the Tea Party movement in full swing, the mainstream media did anything they could to assail these patriotic conservatives as racists, searching desperately at every Tea Party event for any wayward protest sign that might have racist content that could be used to assassinate the character of an entire national grassroots movement. The media even went so far as to fabricate a racial confrontation between Tea Party protesters an

This time of year, adherents to the world's great religions celebrate a Great Light shining in the Darkness. The setting is perfect for inhabitants of the Northern Hemisphere, who have lived through the darkest months of the year and now anticipate the bright days ahead. Absent its various sectarian interpretations, the symbolism should be especially meaningful for we libertarians, because we see our philosophy and way of life- which is the way of peace and mutual, voluntary cooperation among humankind- as a great light shining in the darkness of centuries of coercion, slavery, and war. I believe our very lives span the winter solstice of human history. The oldest among us have seen in their own life times, the very blackest horrors governments have ever conceived or perpetrated against humanity. The great darkness of absolute statism in all of its ugly forms, from fascism to communism to military dictatorship, has blanketed the earth in its foul, polluted mire for a century.

Just wow : Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner was overheard loudly complaining on the phone in the Delta Lounge at Reagan National Airport outside Washington about Obama's healthy food initiative. According to Fishbowl DC, which first reported the lawmaker's remarks, Sensenbrenner was recounting a recent conversation he'd had at church event in Wisconsin. Obama, Sensenbrenner said loudly, "lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself." According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Daniel Bice, Sensenbrenner made a similar remark at the Wisconsin church he was referencing in his phone call, telling attendees there that Obama has a "big butt." The Wisconsin lawmaker—who, it must noted, is a bit rotund--sent a personal note to Obama apologizing for his remarks, his spokeswoman Amanda Infield tells Yahoo News. She declined to go into detail about what the note said. In a statement to reporters, the lawmaker reiterated his apology.

By: Carl Wicklander After the Republican-led House of Representatives buckled and extended the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefit extension some hope the GOP is losing its “extremism.” Some, like the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson believe that after the House agreed to the Senate’s bipartisan agreement: “Republicans let us glimpse the rift between establishment pragmatists and Tea Party ideologues. There may be hope for the republic after all.” The vote, of course, settles nothing, it is merely a two-month extension. A tax cut and a welfare check. The best for both of Washington’s parties. We’ll be back shortly for another round of Washington kabuki theatre where the two parties will pretend to find a solution for the economy and the looming entitlement crisis. For Robinson, the issue is appearing “sensible” and getting things done. Likewise, another Post columnist, Jennifer Rubin, was also ruminating on the radicalism that is overtaking the Republican Party..

Eric Dondero, the former senior aide to Ron Paul who is now a fierce critic of Paul's foreign policy left this comment on my blog recently, the last I've heard from him in months now... and he actually had something very nice (and very true) to say about Ron Paul regarding the latest attempt by the media to smear him ! I worked for the guy for 12 years as his personal assistant/travel aide. I can honestly say I never heard a racist word come out of his mouth in that entire time. There were only two instances in that entire time that could be categorized as possibly "homophobic." But that's it. Paul is in no way an Anti-Semite as many charge. He has no problem with Jews in the United States. He is however, passionately opposed to Israel, and wishes the State would not even exist. He sees it as a burden on the US taxpayer and too much of a hassle for our foreign policy. There's many lies being spread by both sides these days, the diehard Paulists, and t

From the Wall Street Journal : The great words of the year? "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow." They are the last words of Steve Jobs, reported by his sister, the novelist Mona Simpson, who was at his bedside. In her eulogy, a version of which was published in the New York Times, she spoke of how he looked at his children "as if he couldn't unlock his gaze." He'd said goodbye to her, told her of his sorrow that they wouldn't be able to be old together, "that he was going to a better place." In his final hours his breathing was deep, uneven, as if he were climbing. "Before embarking, he'd looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life's partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them. Steve's final words were: 'OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.'" The caps are Simpson's, and if she meant to impart a sense of wonder and mystery she succeeded. "Oh wow" is not a bad way t

In a partisan face off over how long to extend a payroll tax cut that expires soon and amounts to an extra $40 per biweekly pay period for the average American worker, the White House stirred up some discussion on Twitter by tweeting out: What does #40Dollars mean to you? But the latest fiscal policy battle over a forty dollar tax cut every two weeks and whether to extend it for two months or two years (and whether to attach this or that condition to the tax cut, and whether people with Ds next to their name are more awesome than people with Rs) is just another distraction from the biggest, baddest, most insidious tax that American workers have to pay every year– the inflation tax. Congress would much rather use up your attention span on fighting over $80 a month so that you don’t notice just how much inflation tax you pay every time you buy gas, pay your electric bill, or pick up groceries. Because if you did notice and started speaking up, then Congress might have

Kurt Wallace provides some fascinating commentary using expert body language analysis to conclude that while pressing Ron Paul over and over again about the newsletters with racist content written under his name in the 1980s, CNN report Gloria Borger's body language could indicate something like "I realize I am interviewing a kind gentleman who is real and honest and I feel bad for what I just did." Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

In the Wall Street Journal , Dorothy Rabinowitz writes : Ron Paul's supporters are sure of one thing: Their candidate has always been consistent—a point Dr. Paul himself has been making with increasing frequency. It's a thought that comes up with a certain inevitability now in those roundtables on the Republican field. One cable commentator genially instructed us last Friday, "You have to give Paul credit for sticking to his beliefs." He was speaking, it's hardly necessary to say, of a man who holds some noteworthy views in a candidate for the presidency of the United States. One who is the best-known of our homegrown propagandists for our chief enemies in the world. One who has made himself a leading spokesman for, and recycler of, the long and familiar litany of charges that point to the United States as a leading agent of evil and injustice, the militarist victimizer of millions who want only to live in peace. Rabinowitz and her ilk are the actual propaga

In the United States today, the First Amendment is under attack like never before. Technological innovations such as the Internet have made it possible for average Americans to communicate directly with one another in ways that completely bypass the mainstream media, and this is making the elite very uncomfortable. They have decided that they better come after our free speech before it is too late. Right now, free speech in America is being chipped away at it in thousands of different ways. On the one hand, you have the disciples of "political correctness" that want to make all forms of speech that are "offensive" to anyone against the law. On the other hand, you have those that are obsessed with "national security" that want to ban all speech that is critical of the U.S. government or the U.S. military. These twin forces are constantly seeking to push the First Amendment into a smaller and smaller box. If you say the wrong thing in America today, your web