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Archive for January, 2011

Ron Paul On Egypt: More Meddling Is Exactly The Wrong Thing To Do

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, January 31st, 2011. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Middle East, Politicos & Pundits, Ron Paul

Rand Paul: The Day Of Reckoning Is Here

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, January 26th, 2011. Filed under Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Rand Paul

The Libertarian Response To The State Of The Union

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, January 26th, 2011. Filed under Congress, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Rand Paul, Ron Paul

Last night, John Stossel was joined by Ron Paul and others to discuss the State of the Union and the televised responses:

Ron Paul: We Can’t Afford Perpetual War

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, January 20th, 2011. Filed under Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Ron Paul

Ron Paul: How America Can Once Again Become The Standard For A Free Society

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, January 19th, 2011. Filed under Individual Liberty, Politicos & Pundits, Ron Paul

From today on the House floor:

United Liberty Podcast: National Debt, 2012 Politics, And A Little Bit Of Drinking

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, January 18th, 2011. Filed under Blogging

On Saturday, Jason Pye, Brett Bittner, Mike Hassinger, and myself sat down and recorded one of the too-infrequent United Liberty Podcasts. We talked about the National Debt, the start of the 112th Congress, and the opening moves of the 2012 Presidential campaign. And at least one of us was drinking at the time.
You can listen [...]

Rand Paul On The Arizona Shootings

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, January 10th, 2011. Filed under Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Rand Paul

Rand Paul was on Fox News Sunday yesterday, along with Delaware Senator Chris Coons, and the majority of the discussion concentrated on the shootings over the weekend in Arizona:

Bob McDonnell: A Borrow-And-Spend Republican

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, January 9th, 2011. Filed under Bob McDonnell, Virginia, Virginia Politics

Bob McDonnell continues to trouble me. Last year, he balanced the state budget by engaging in an accounting trick that merely pushed the state’s liability to the employee pension fund to the following fiscal year. Now, he seems intent on spending money that the Commonwealth doesn’t have:
RICHMOND – Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell plans a [...]

Ron Paul: Repeal The PATRIOT Act!

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, January 3rd, 2011. Filed under Individual Liberty, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Privacy, Ron Paul

Sounds good to me:

Justice For The Sensuous Italian Sunbather

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, January 2nd, 2011. Filed under In The News, Legal

Back in August, I wrote about this story out of Italy:
A TOPLESS sunbather is being investigated by police after being accused of sensuously rubbing sun cream on herself on a public beach.
Police were called to a beach at Anzio south of Rome by a furious mother who said the way the “attractive” [...]

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