Ron Paul to Be Appointed Committee Chair Overseeing Federal Reserve

In one of the best moves the Republicans have made in a long time, they are poised to give committee chairmanship to Congressmen Ron Paul in order to oversee the operations of the Federal Reserve.

From the Hill.com:

Paul is poised to take over the Financial Services subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve in the next Congress. With the power of that pulpit, Paul said he hopes to shine a light on the Fed’s policies, which he has long criticized as opaque and secretive, and make the case that the bank’s monetary policies harm the U.S. economy.

Speculation has swirled that Paul would immediately use his subpoena powers as chairman of the subcommittee to compel testimony from Federal Reserve officials, but in an interview with The Hill, the Texas lawmaker said he has other plans.

We look forward to the day Congressman Paul is able to question power officials in the Federal Reserve.

Stay Tuned for what is to come...

Ron Paul: Crotch Groped by TSA, Calls for Boycott of Airlines

Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, Texas Congressman Ron Paul expressed his outrage and disgust with the TSA and its unconstitutional naked body scanners and genital groping under the transparent pretense of protecting the American people from terrorists in distant caves.

Ron Paul Debates TSA Screenings--Pushes American Traveler Dignity Act

Congressman Ron Paul faces off against Fran Townsend, CNN National Security Analyst and former Homeland Security Advisor to the post-9/11 Bush Whitehouse. Paul argues against the current TSA airport security measures as being invasive and a broad government overreach. Townsend holds that it is a necessary policy for upholding safety in the face of terrorism.

On Nov. 17, 2010 Congressman Ron Paul presented a bill on the House floor in an attempt to curb the invasiveness of TSA search requirements.

"Private Property Should Be Protected by Private Individuals, Not Bureaucrats"

As usual Ron Paul comes down on the side of common sense and liberty!! I love this guy. Why is the concept of private property being absolutely essential to a free society so hard for people to understand? When it comes to the TSA's porno machines and groping checks at airports, the Federal government has no business doing these things. The fourth amendment is being violated when the Federal government conducts these type of "guilty until groped innocent" security procedures. The airlines are private companies, that own private property. and should use Private security screening to protect that property and convince the population that it is safe to purchase their product. What this really boils down to is that the airlines are perfectly willing to let you and me pay for their security. I don't want to. I pay enough when I buy a ticket!!

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Big Government RINO Defends Big Government RINO

Newt Gingrich agrees that "we're all socialists now." No reason to even consider the merest possibility that there might be a non-socialist alternative in an important policy discussion. Preparing to continue the dream in 2012, Newt opines that Mitt Romney is a better big-government socialist than those "liberal Democrats" in Massachusetts. Oh how I wish the majority of Democratic Party politicians were actually politically liberal (in the classic sense, as actually defined in the dictionary). I'd vote for them.

"Governor Romney's made very clear that he favors absolute repeal of Obamacare and that he believes it's not accurate and not fair to try and compare [Romneycare to Obamacare]," said Newt Gingrich on CBN's The Brody File Show. "I think you have to start with that and I also think in all fairness to Governor Romney that he vetoed many provisions that the liberal Democrats in the Massachusetts state legislature added to the [Romneycare] bill and they overrode his veto so I think if you're going to go back and look at the original Romney[care] bill you'd have a much better [all encompassing mandatory state-wide socialized health care] bill and a much more practical bill than what the liberal Democrats did to the legislation because they literally overrode his veto on a whole series of items."

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What Can We Learn from the Tea Party Victory?

By Roger F. Gay

Some bewilderment remains in the wake of Alabama representative Spencer Bachus' claim that Sarah Palin and the Tea Party cost Republicans control of the Senate. Sarah Palin was the only thing that gave John McCain's presidential candidacy any life at all, and if Tea Party leaders hadn't chosen to use the Republican Party as a vehicle, there is no reason to suspect that the GOP would have fared any better than it did in 2008.

McCain did more than symbolize the dramatic fall of the Republican Party. He represented its corrupted character to a t; a Ronald Reagan rhetorically conservative Republican ready to sign-on to Cap-n-Trade and expand the federal role in everything from aardvarks to zymurgy. With the Constitution dead and Washington out-of-control, all the voters should hope for was to be “led” by people who sometimes seem like they might be somewhat less horrible than the other guys.

A win for the Party was everything – or was it? Policy results and their effect on people's lives took a back seat. Ostensibly, the Republican Party stood for nothing but a battle for market share. But to add to the macabre tale, policy choices became less populist and more conforming to a largely unpopular bipartisan agenda. I heard the camel's back breaking as the McCain campaign strained to reach out to Hillary Democrats. His political strategy accurately portrayed the depths of illegitimacy and stupidity to which the Party had sunk; and it did so in a way that could not go unnoticed.

Will Sarah Palin and the Tea Party save America? I don't know. Their only accomplishment so far has been to save the Republican Party from oblivion. Although 2012 is still two years away, it's a bit unnerving that the rhetorically conservative politician from the outer-reaches of the far left Mitt Romney still leads in some polls among right-wing voters. Sarah Palin actually said that she liked the thought of being his running mate. So, whether or not the de facto leadership of the Tea Party movement is just running a marketing scam is still an open question. (related article)

Whether or not there were one or two candidates who might have won Senate seats but lost Republican primaries for lack of Tea Party support is not what's important. Making Bachus' comment all the more foolish is the heightened public understanding that party brand-name is less important than the impact of sending (or at least trying to send) people to Congress who will do the right thing. In fact, some of us haven't forgotten that the U.S. Constitution doesn't present a partisan system at all.

The lesson we might learn from the Tea Party victory in 2010 is the one the “old white men” had learned more than two centuries before us. It's not wise to allow great power to rest in the hands of a few people. We would be fools to leave important decisions to a chosen few, no matter who they are and no matter what label they use. The de facto leaders of the Tea Party movement are no exception. The saving of America is still up to us, The People.

U.S. Deficit Commission Recommends Changes to Social Security

Finally we have someone in the Federal Government suggesting a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, this type of thing is not easy to accept for many in the public or the govt., but this should be the first step of many in cutting back the out of control spending culture in Washington. We simply cannot afford to continue the spending spree full of empty promises from government anymore. We will have to be willing as a people to take back more responsibility for our own lives and future. God forbid we actually take care of ourselves and stop counting on Uncle Sam for our retirement! Besides Social Security isn’t even guaranteed to us legally. If the government decides we should not recieve Social Security the benifits can be cut off, and there is nothing you or I can do about it. Read- “Entitlements and Guaranteed bankruptcy” by Gary North, if you don’t believe me.

Published November 10, 2010

FoxNews.com:

A draft proposal by the deficit commission suggests curbing Social Security benefits and raising the retirement age.

The co-chairmen of the panel appointed by President Obama to cut the U.S. deficit recommend raising the retirement age to 68. It is currently 67 years for retirees to receive full benefits. The panel leaders also propose reducing the annual cost-of-living increases in Social Security.

The increase to age 68 would be implemented by 2050 and then would increase again to 69 by 2075. A “hardship exception” would be provided for certain occupations where older retirement would be unrealistic.

According to a source who spoke to Fox News, the 18-member panel led by former Wyoming Republican Sen. Alan Simpson and former Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, also may propose reducing the base rate on corporate taxes, phasing in spending cuts over time, reducing foreign aid by $4.6 billion, freezing federal salaries for three years and banning congressional earmarks. It is unclear how the commissioners would define a congressional earmark.

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What Todays DeceptiCONS (Fake, Phoney, conservatives)Can learn From 1798

Mandeville, LA (Excerpted from Sirius-XM's Mike Church Show) -

OK Folks, so we keep hearing all these hacks working in the punditocracy decrying Senator DeMint and Rand Paul for daring to talk about "principles" and then having the audacity to talk about RELYING ON THEM to make decisions.

Well, the DeceptiCONS and citizens of Libtardia have a lot to learn about history. Let me take you back to 1798, the year that Thomas Jefferson and James Madison teamed up to author the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.

These documents were a response to the overreach by the Adams Administration and Congress on the "Alien & Sedition Acts". A leader was needed to shepherd Jefferson's resolution through the Virginia Assembly and Jefferson chose John Taylor of Caroline for the task.

Related Material: Text of The Virginia Resolutions of 1798

During the heat of debate and with 1798's version of DeceptiCONS arguing that with implied powers Congress could pretty much do whatever it wanted, Taylor stuck to the principle that the Constitution must be enforced against Congress BY the States. The reward for this action Taylor said, was written in a local newspaper:

"As to the clause giving Congress power to pass necessary laws for carrying delegated powers into effect, it created no new powers, but had reference to the powers already granted. The acceptance of the doctrine of implication would mean that "those great and inestimable rights which flow from Nature, and are the gift of Nature's God, will be assassinated by the rude and unfeeliing hand of ferocious despotism". Answering G. Taylor's argument that the power to pass laws relative to alien enemies was implied, he said that Congress had the express power to declare war, that as soon as war was declared, by the Law of nations, alien enemies became prisoners of war, and Congress could say what was to be done with them. And then, after a gloomy picture of all the departments of the government swallowed up in one, he exclaimed: "What, then, are the people to wait till the pressure of the evil principle is felt? No. As an elegant author expresses it, they augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze... By the adoption of the Resolutions you raise a rampart against the inroads of the usurpation, and your names will be wafted down on the stream of time, crowned with laurels, and as they pass, will be hailed by a grateful posterity with plausive acclamations." - Excerpted from "The Virginia Report of 1799-1800,Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together With the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798.

See John Taylor of Caroline in my Movie "The Spirit of '76 - The Greatest Story Never Told". Available on 2 disc DVD set or 3 Disc audio CD.


I have said on this program and have quoted others, like Dr. Kevin Gutzman as saying that if Republicans do what we believe they were sent to do and that they MUST do. Gutzman wrote recently "Lining out programs is both fiscally essential and, in light of the Tea Party phenomenon, politically necessary to Republicans. Constitutionally, Republicans are in the best position they can be in: they have control only of the chamber of Congress in which all spending bills must originate. So, Republicans, line out programs. Kill them. Tell the people why you’re doing it. Do it now. You will be rewarded. If the program doesn’t go through, blame Obama. It will be his fault. Your constituents will understand. You have power without responsibility, so take advantage of it."

Amen.
©2010 Mike Church

The Story of Spending in Washington

As the following video documents, spending is a bi-partisan problem:

Keynesian Economics vs. Austrian Economics

If this doesn't convince you that the Austrian theory destroys Keynesian economics I don't know what will!

Al Gore’s Chicago Climate Exchange Announces Shut-Down

Pajamas Media comments in If Al Gore’s Chicago Climate Exchange Suffers Total Failure, Does the MSM Make a Sound?

Excerpt:

Global warming-inspired cap and trade has been one of the most stridently debated public policy controversies of the past 15 years. But it is dying a quiet death. In a little reported move, the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) announced on Oct. 21 that it will be ending carbon trading — the only purpose for which it was founded — this year.

Although the trading in carbon emissions credits was voluntary, the CCX was intended to be the hub of the mandatory carbon trading established by a cap-and-trade law, like the Waxman-Markey scheme passed by the House in June 2009.

At its founding in November 2000, it was estimated that the size of CCX’s carbon trading market could reach $500 billion. That estimate ballooned over the years to $10 trillion.

Al Capone tried to use Prohibition to muscle in on a piece of all the action in Chicago. The CCX’s backers wanted to use a new prohibition on carbon emissions to muscle in on a piece of, quite literally, all the action in the world.

The CCX was the brainchild of Northwestern University business professor Richard Sandor, who used $1.1 million in grants from the Chicago-based left-wing Joyce Foundation to launch the CCX. For his efforts, Time named Sandor as one of its Heroes of the Planet in 2002 and one of its Heroes of the Environment in 2007.

The CCX seemed to have a lock on success. Not only was a young Barack Obama a board member of the Joyce Foundation that funded the fledgling CCX, but over the years it attracted such big name climate investors as Goldman Sachs and Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the CCX’s highly anticipated looting of taxpayers and consumers — cap-and-trade imploded following its high water mark of the House passage of the Waxman-Markey bill. With ongoing economic recession, Climategate, and the tea party movement, what once seemed like a certainty became anything but.

Continue reading If Al Gore’s Chicago Climate Exchange Suffers Total Failure, Does the MSM Make a Sound?

Rand Paul Unlikely to Block Obama Troop Decisions on Afghanistan

Rand Paul, who won election under the tea party banner, says he will support a decision by President Barack Obama to reduce the number of troops in Afghanistan.

This is actually the right decision to support because we are wasting Trillions of dollars in a War that was won years ago. It is time we hand back the decision making of Afghanistan to the Afghanistan people.

From Fox News:

WASHINGTON -- Providing some clarity on his opinion of the war in Afghanistan, Sen.-elect Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Sunday that Tea Partiers support strong national security efforts but he probably wouldn't get in the way of President Obama's decision to reduce troops in Afghanistan.

Saying he needs to learn more about current operations in Afghanistan, the Kentucky Republican, who had been vague on the campaign trail about his position on the war, said he wants to know whether the U.S. is still threatened by Afghanistan. But troop levels are the president's domain.

"What I think is that ultimately troop deployments are decided by the president, not by Congress. I don't think really Congress can decide troop levels. In fact, I think if Congress told him to bring all of them home on a certain time, I think he can do what he wants constitutionally," Paul said.

This issue has nothing to do with the tea party because the tea party was about reducing the size and power of the national government. This war we are fighting just gives the government an opportunity to grow at a larger rate and defeats the purpose of less government.

G. Edward Griffin on the Federal Reserve System

Federal Reserve System is "Deeply Flawed"

On Friday, Congressman Ron Paul was interviewed on Fox News' Your World w/ Neil Cavuto concerning the Federal Reserve and returning to honest money.

Federal Reserve Pumping in More Dollars: Backlash Coming Strong

It is obvious that is website is in strong opposition to the Federal Reserve and any action they might take to manipulate the economy. It seems that we have more cause for concern with the Federal Reserve and the actions they are currently taking on the economy.

From FT.com:

The US Federal Reserve’s decision to pump an extra $600bn into the economy has galvanized emerging market central banks into preparing defensive measures and sparked criticism from leading global economies.

The Fed’s initiative, in response to rising concern about the weakness of the US economy, has fuelled fears of a sharp drop in the dollar and a fresh flood of capital inflows into emerging markets.

They do not get the solution to the problem and they continue to feed the fire by doing the same failed solution every time they are trying to "fix" the economy.

The Federal Reserve is one institution in our government that needs to go away, and go away fast before they really take our country right down the tubes.

Rand Paul: A Force to Be Reckoned With in the Senate

The election of Rand Paul to the United States Senate in the state of Kentucky is a great sign for the movement of freedom and liberty and will usher in a new era of thinking in politics; especially in a governing body that is sorely lacking.

On Tuesday night Rand Paul gave a blasting speech taking aim at the establishment in Washington and in a way the Republican Party. He is promising new change for the direction of the Senate and the way politics is played in the nation's capitol.



His first step at this time is to form a Tea Party Caucus that will include members of both houses of Congress.

From Fox News:

The Tea Party movement has earned a sizeable voice in Congress after two tumultuous years in the making, and it's moving quickly to carve out a foothold in Washington before the next session begins in January.

Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, a Tea Party darling who moved to create a House caucus for the movement over the summer, is planning to run for a top-ranking leadership position, according to a colleague. Rand Paul, the winner of the Kentucky Senate contest, said Wednesday that he wants to form a bicameral Tea Party caucus.

At his Father's side, Rand will be able to grow as a legislature and take the fight to the top members of his chamber and eventually to whomever is sitting in the Oval Office.

What is benefiting Rand is the backing he has from the Liberty movement and bloggers like myself. We know he is a game changer and we are not scared of that fact. However, there are members of the elite group in Washington that know this as well and they are petrified of this man. He will change some attitudes in the Senate and will shake up the man.

R3VOLUTION!!

Taking the Battle to the Fed

On Wednesday, Congressman Ron Paul appeared on Fox Business' America's Nightly Scoreboard to discuss the elections, the Fed's quantitative easing announcement, and the future of the sound money fight.

The States must end corruption first

Mandeville, LA - (Excerpted from "The Mike Church Show" on Sirius/XM's Patriot Channel) - The most important races on today's ballots are not those for the U.S. House of Representin' or the U.S. Senate. No they are those races that will elect or re-elect members of the several state legislatures, senates and governors races. The perverse practice of state governments rolling over and playing dead when Congress exceeds its authority is the first thing that needs to change in order to "get our Constitution back. Without getting into the detailed history of how this used to be done and when it stopped let's just state a simple fact and move forward shall we? Last year's federal budget deficit was $1.4 trillion, divide this among 50 states and you'll get app. $38 billion per state. Does anyone reading this post believe that their state's citizens would have consented to a tax increase of $38 billion last year? What about this year? The answer is "n"o yet this is exactly what the state governments have done by accepting federal mandates and then the borrowed funds that come with them; states have become partners in this generational theft. Once the voters figure this out and then have epiphanies over the fact that all that borrowed dough will be paid back by their future labor, we can hope that fixing this local corruption begins in earnest. I hope that begins today. ©2010 Mike Church

Ron Paul for Speaker of the House

It is election night in this country and the networks have already called the House of Representatives for the Republicans.

From Fox News:

In a victory of historic proportions, Republicans will win the U.S. House of Representatives with a net gain of about 60 seats, Fox News projects.

The gains would exceed those made during the Republican wave of 1994, when the party picked up 54 House seats. In House races from Florida to Virginia to Indiana to Texas, voters were sending a rebuke to the Democratic Party by electing Republicans over Democratic incumbents.

The networks are already calling John Boehner the next Speaker of the House, but they are overlooking the guy who should be speaker...and that is Congressman Ron Paul.

The main reason for these huge Republican gains is the tea party movement in this country and it is because of Ron Paul and the libertarian movement.

John Boehner is just another big government Republican who knows how to hide that from the American people and mainstream Republicans.

If this party was smart, they would put Ron Paul into a leadership position like Speaker or Majority leader.

The Madness of Barack Obama

President Obama is on the campaign trail warning voters about "returning to the very same policies that failed us during the last decade."

If he's talking about bailouts, ineffective stimulus packages, and massive government spending, then we won't be returning to them because we've never left.

Rand Paul: Declared Next Senator from Kentucky!

It is a good day for Liberty...Rand Paul, son of Congressmen Ron Paul, has been declared the winner of the Kentucky Senate Race.

From the Politico:

Republicans scored two early victories in the upper chamber: Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul, perhaps the year’s most prominent tea party candidate, was declared the winner in his state’s open-seat Senate race. Former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats won an easy victory over Democratic Rep. Brad Ellsworth, reclaiming his old seat for the GOP.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44561.html#ixzz14Ae0HF44

Rand Paul brings to Washington an outsiders experience and will fight to change the face of Washington. He will not bow down to the old order that controls Washington and will fight for a smaller government and more individual freedom.

Stewart/Colbert Rally-Goers: Obama Is Not a Keynesian, He’s an American!

It seems like a few people who attended the weekend rally in Washington ran by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were extremely confused when it came to whether or not Barack Obama was a Keynesian....apparently their answer is "He was born in America"

Watch for yourself:



It looks like the smart people who follow Obama and watch Stewart and Colbert confused Kenyan with Keynesian, which is Obama's economic philosophy.

Those crazy Obama lovers!

Election Showdown...11/2/2010

The date is November 2, 2010. It is the midterm election and a referendum on the Presidency of Barack Obama. There are Republicans running, and there are Democrats running. All are trying to control the power of government in Washington D.C., but only one will be successful.

Republicans are poised to take control of the House of Representatives and will come close to gaining control of the U.S. Senate. It is an exciting time, especially for a Libertarian, because a lot of these candidates are fueled by Libertarian ideals. Whether or not the Republicans that will get elected  will hold true to their promises of less government and more freedom, only time will tell.

This is their chance to prove themselves one last time before people start jumping ship and getting on board with the Libertarian ideals. If they screw this one up, they will be punished by the voters and will never be trusted again.

The showdown has begun!...................