photo from Wikimedia Commons On September 6, 2011, Tom Nielsen, a retired 71-year-old plumber, interrupted Paul Ryan’s “pay per view town hall” at the Greenfield, WI, Rotary Club. Nielsen, enraged by Ryan’s crusade against entitlements, yelled out, “I’ve paid into that for 50 years, for my unemployment, and my social security, and my Medicare! And now you’re gonna-”. The old man was not allowed to finish. Three security guards pummeled the reti...
From Wikimedia Commons This week, the president will finally know who he will be running against in the general election… officially, at least. It has been months since Mitt Romney safely clinched the GOP nomination by winning more than half of the allotted Republican National Convention delegates in the primaries, but now the Party gets to sign on the dotted line. While there were initially fears that Ron Paul supporters would stage a libertar...
...te his impressive surge, may be too principled, and his attempts to deconstruct the Obama theology on national television are not helping. Uncle Owen (the smoldering skeleton guy from Star Wars) could have been describing Ron Paul when he said, “That wizard’s just a crazy old man.” Unlike Obi-Wan Kenobi, however, Paul doesn’t have any Jedi mind tricks to play. When the votes are cast, Ron Paul will be nowhere near the Republican nomination. Newt...
Traditionally, third-party candidates receive next to no attention in presidential races, mostly because it is an accepted truth that one could never win an election. However, this year a third party might shake things up; not by outright winning the election, but by receiving enough votes to affect who the final winner (either Romney or Obama) will be. One name that is often floated for a third party run is Ron Paul. Paul, an ardent libertarian...
...akes the PPACA necessary. So why was this line of questioning not pursued any further? Simply put, political considerations have made honest speech infeasible. There were resounding “Yeahs!” when Republican candidate Dr. Ron Paul implied he would allow a hypothetical 30-year-old man in a coma and without healthcare to die. The majority of the electorate, however, finds such sentiments callous. Paul replied, “I practiced medicine before Medicaid...
photo from Wikimedia Commons “The next President of the United States, Paul Ryan.” I think Mitt might be having a bit of an identity crisis. When introducing his vice presidential running-mate, Paul Ryan, Governor Romney triumphantly declared the congressman as Mr. Obama’s successor. Oops. In the biggest moment of his campaign, the biggest moment of his public life thus far, Romney forgot for just a second (or maybe it was just Freudian), exact...
Illustration by Amalia Rinehart Ron Suskind, critically acclaimed author of narrative nonfiction, has been a leading voice in addressing and explaining critical issues impacting Americans on the national stage. A Pulitzer-Prize winner, Suskind was the senior national affairs writer for the Wall Street Journal from 1993 to 2000. Suskind’s past best-selling books include: A Hope in the Unseen, The Way of the World, The One Percent Doctrine, and T...
...cratic voters (namely the poor) was in fact only dormant. The Democrats were waiting and watching, and all it took to initiate a liberal eruption was a young Wisconsinite with a prominent widow’s peak. For the past few years, Paul Ryan has been the bane of the left-wing, seen by liberals as the ideological leader of the House Republicans (read: Tea Party) and a draconian fiscal hawk who wants to finish off the middle and lower classes with his so...
...conservatives, and paleoconservatives all stress different values. For example, Rick Santorum’s socially conservative idea that government has a moral Christian duty to oppose abortion or gay marriage directly contradicts Ron Paul’s libertarian conservative position that government has absolutely no right to decide on such matters. Understanding the Republican Party’s shift from the traditional conservatism (or paleoconservatism as some might cal...
...rd and confusing” Republican Primary, Stephanopoulos made it clear that the likelihood of another candidate outside the Gingrich-Santorum-Romney trifecta gaining momentum in the primary is “far-fetched.” When asked about Ron Paul, Stephanopoulos thoughtfully answered that he did not believe Paul was unconditionally seeking the presidency, but was rather trying to increase his influence within the Republican Party to provide a platform for his so...
Follow us at
Like us on
Recent Comments