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Rights of Taxpayers is Missing Element in Stem Cell Debate By Rep. Ron Paul June 25, 2007 The debate in Washington has again turned to federal funding of stem cell research, with President Bush moving to veto legislation passed recently by Congress. Those engaged in this debate tend to split into warring camps claiming exclusive moral authority to decide the issue once and for all. On one side, those who support the President’s veto tend to argue against embryonic stem cell research, pointing to the individual rights of the embryo being discarded for use in research. On the other hand...

Family Education Freedom Act of 2007 (Introduced in House) HR 1056 IH 110th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1056 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a credit against income tax for tuition and related expenses for public and nonpublic elementary and secondary education. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 14, 2007 Mr. PAUL (for himself, Mr. FEENEY, Mr. RUSH, and Mr. SENSENBRENNER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals a credit against income tax for...

Sanctity of Life Act of 2007 (Introduced in House) HR 1094 IH 110th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1094 To provide that human life shall be deemed to exist from conception. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 15, 2007 Mr. PAUL (for himself, Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey, and Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To provide that human life shall be deemed to exist from conception. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION...

GOP Ron Paul - Five Million Dollar Man? Thursday, June 07, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com Congressman Ron Paul’s donations have moved up - not by hundreds of thousands - but by millions as a result of his debate performances and groundswell of support on the Internet and in New Hampshire, observers close to the campaign say. The move is especially impressive since as of March 31, 2007, he had perhaps $500,000 on hand (see candidate estimates below). FMNN had previously reported – after the GOP presidential debate in South Carolina - that candidate Ron Paul’s (R-Tex) donations, large and small, had...

Mitt Romney: Champion of Big Government by Carla Howell Is Mitt Romney the "economic conservative" he claims to be? Especially when it comes to tax and spend policies? Now that he's running for president, let's compare his words with his deeds. Taxes Romney claims to be anti-tax. He even "took" a "no new taxes" pledge when he ran for Governor of Massachusetts in 2002. "Took" is in quotes because he refused to sign that pledge. His signature wasn't necessary, he claimed. He assured us that he's a man of his word. But Mitt Romney has been a champion of new...

Immigration ‘Compromise’ Sells Out Our Sovereignty By Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) May 28, 2007 The much-vaunted Senate “compromise” on immigration is a compromise alright: a compromise of our laws, a compromise of our sovereignty, and a compromise of the Second Amendment. That anyone in Washington believes this is a credible approach to solving our immigration crisis suggests just how out of touch our political elites really are. The reality is that this bill will grant amnesty to virtually all of the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens in the country today. Supporters use very creative language to try and convince...

Global Warming Is Not a Threat But the Environmentalist Response to It Is by George Reisman Global Warming Does Not Imply a Carbon Cap Early this winter, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the summary of its latest report on global warming. It’s most trumpeted finding was that the existence of global warming is now "unequivocal." Although such anecdotal evidence as January’s snowfall in Tucson, Arizona and freezing weather in Southern California, and February’s more than 100-inch snowfall in upstate New York, might suggest otherwise, global warming may indeed be a fact. It may also be a fact...

Does 'the decider' decide on war? Posted: May 30, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern Has Congress given George Bush a green light to attack Iran? For he is surely behaving as though it is his call alone. And evidence is mounting that we are on a collision course for war. * Iran has detained several Iranian-Americans, seemingly in retaliation for our continuing to hold five Iranians in Iraq. * The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, says Iran is making progress in the enrichment of uranium and denying it access to Iran's nuclear sites. * Bush is calling...

Al-Qaeda’s Waiting Game Bush isn’t winning in his battle against our real enemy. by Michael Scheuer Americans tend to forget that while we were surprised by the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda was not. The attacks’ exact date was known to bin Laden and two or three others only six days before Sept. 11, 2001, but they had long known the attacks were coming. Thus al-Qaeda was able to move important operatives, archives, materiel, and other assets out of Afghanistan in advance. The al-Qaeda fighters who stayed to fight the U.S.-led coalition came from the organization’s insurgent arm—which is al-Qaeda’s largest component...

Rudy Giuliani: Unfit to Command Friday, May 25, 2007 Rudy Giuliani's pointed exchange with US Represetantive Ron Paul at the May 15th Republican presidential debate has been quite the hot topic, and while Giuliani scored some cheap points that night, over time both public and punditry seem to be rightly concluding that Giuliani came out of the exchange looking worse than when he went in. While it's encouraging that that exchange has contributed to a better understanding (on the part of everyone except, apparently, Giuliani himself) of the implications of US foreign policy, the incident puts the spotlight on a...

Bush makes power grab Posted: May 23, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president. The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive," with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive, establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator. That job, as the document describes, is to make plans for "National...

Ron Paul Recruits Anonymous to Attack Rudy's Foreign Policy May 22, 2007 3:37 PM ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: Presidential candidate and Libertarian Republican Rep. Ron Paul will enlist the help of Mr. Anonymous --Michael Scheuer, an author critical of Presidents in both parties and the former head of the CIA's Osama Bin Laden unit -- to argue that America's Mayor needs to bone up on his recent history. It's been a week since the Fox News presidential debate and Ron Paul is still playing up his tiff with Rudy Giuliani that night over whether US Foreign Policy, specifically the...

But Who Was Right – Rudy or Ron? by Patrick J. Buchanan It was the decisive moment of the South Carolina debate. Hearing Rep. Ron Paul recite the reasons for Arab and Islamic resentment of the United States, including 10 years of bombing and sanctions that brought death to thousands of Iraqis after the Gulf War, Rudy Giuliani broke format and exploded: "That's really an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of 9/11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I don't think I have ever heard that before, and I have heard some...

Do Conservatives Hate Their Own Founder? by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Toward the end of his life, Russell Kirk, one of the great founders of American conservatism, became contemptuous of Republican militarism. Didn’t know that? Neither do most readers of National Review, for which Kirk wrote for so many years. Kirk’s opposition to relentless war makes him a "liberal" in NR’s lexicon. Now it’d be kind of hard to describe the key founder of modern American conservatism as a liberal – harder even than NR’s task of making the obviously corrupt (and personally sleazy) former federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani seem...

Tonight, Ron Paul stated that al-Qaida attacked us because we are involved in the Middle East. Below I have posted Bin Laden's declaration of War against the United States, made in 1996. He cites (1) US Involvement in the Middle East, (2) Palestine, and (3) Sanctions on Iraq as reasons why he has declared war. Giuliani either accidentally or purposefully misinterpreted Paul's REASON why they attacked us as a JUSTIFICATION. Paul does not believe that they were right in attacking us; just the opposite. To believe what Giuliani stated, that they attacked us because of "our freedom and women's rights",...

Dissecting the Anti-McCain Derby Friday, January 27, 2006 Attention all 2008 GOP Presidential hopefuls: If you're name isn't John McCain, there's a political army ready to take you under its wings here in South Carolina and offer you a first-class ticket to the White House. Veteran GOP consultants Warren Tompkins, Heath Thompson, Terry Sullivan and Walter Whetsell have joined forces with one objective - recruiting a viable, recognizable (and let's not forget malleable) candidate to defeat McCain here in the Palmetto State in the 2008 Presidential Primary. And if you thought 2000 was a bloodbath, our guess is you ain't...

Can you please fill out this survey for a college class? You don't have to fill in the name if you don't want to. Thanks. Name: Location: 1. Approximately how many generations has your family lived in the United States? 2. If you believe the illegal immigration issue should be in anyway reformed do you feel any measure of guilt for this opinion? Does this affect how vocal you are on the subject? 3. Are you an empathetic person? What factors play into your decision making? 4. Is there an illegal immigration problem in your area? Have you ever lived...

My wife if doing a survey on illegal immigration for her college class. Would anybody mind filling it out?   Thanks,   RS     1) How important is the issue of illegal immigration to you?   A. Very important B. Somewhat important C. Not very important D. Not important at all     2) Where did you obtain most of your information on illegal immigration?   A. National news B. Local news C. News papers D. Friends / family E. Other     3) Should Spanish become mandatory curriculum in schools?   A. Just the basics B. Advanced...

The Single Tax: What It Is and Why We Urge It By Henry George 1890 I shall briefly state the fundamental principles of what we who advocate it call the Single Tax. We propose to abolish all taxes save one single tax levied on the value of land, irrespective of the value of the improvements in or on it. What we propose is not a tax on real estate, for real estate includes improvements. Nor is it a tax on land, for we would not tax all land, but only land having a value irrespective of its improvements, and would...

How the FairTax Will Renew America By Nick Bradley November 19th, 2005 Recently, there has been much talk of tax reform. Instead of merely “tweaking the code” or flattening it, as many propose, we must replace a fundamentally flawed system. We must replace the income tax with a national retail sales tax (NRST), also known as the FairTax. This can be accomplished by passing the Fair Tax Act of 2005, known in the House as HR 25 and in the Senate as S 25. The FairTax would replace all income and payroll taxes for both individuals and businesses with a...