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It's being reported that the House of Representatives has scheduled the CISPA vote for Friday. CISPA is the replacement legislation to SOPA/PIPA that will shred Internet liberty and the first amendment. Ron Paul said: "If you believe in privacy and free markets, you should be deeply concerned about the proposed marriage of government intelligence gathering with private, profit-seeking companies. CISPA is Big Brother writ large, putting the resources of private industry to work for the nefarious purpose of spying on the American people." CISPA must be defeated... and the House vote is scheduled for Friday. Read the rest here Downsize DC Also, the House congressional directory with phone numbers is here . Judy Morris , Blogger, T H L Articles | Website

Ron Paul makes the cover of Reason Magazine and is the featured article. For Ron Paul, a victory in 2012 doesn’t necessarily mean 270 electoral votes, or even 1144 delegates to the Republican convention. Unlike most candidates, Paul can succeed in a run for president without winning, by changing the establishment’s attitudes toward his libertarian stances. This unusual position provokes taunts from journalists and Republican establishmentarians alike. Don’t Paul and his delusional supporters know he can’t win? Paul doesn’t expect to win, necessarily. He’s a sober, reasonably calculating politician with decades of experience pushing radical libertarian ideas...But the national GOP had little room for his constitutionalist libertarianism in a decade of George W. Bush, the PATRIOT Act, and nonstop overseas wars. That was exactly the reason Paul decided to run for president in 2008. Read the rest here Reason.com See the cover here