Ron Paul: “Republican Candidates Just Represent The Status Quo”

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Republican candidate for president Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) appeared on CNBC to discuss the Federal Reserve and a worldwide quantitative easing, the 2012 field and an independent run for office.

“That doesn’t mean a whole lot. That’s what they’re in the business of doing, and that is to inflate the currency to tide people over and to provide liquidity. And providing liquidity in a situation like this just means they’re buying up bad debt that nobody else wants and they do this by creating credit. But I think it’s sort of a reflection of a panicky type of reaction to get everybody doing this. Including China. They must really be worried to get together like this,” Ron Paul said about the Fed’s decision, 9 to 1, to not change the monetary policy, which means more printing.

Opining on the Republican field, Ron Paul says they all “just represent the status quo.”

“Yeah, I think it’s because it’s more of the status quo. I think all the other Republican candidates just represent the status quo,” Paul told CNBC. “More of the same. No change in the foreign policy. No change in the federal reserve. No cut in spending. I’m the one that’s offering a trillion dollars in cuts because I believe the government is so big and so out of control that you have to have real cuts. But all this other talk about cuts, whether it’s Romney or anybody else, the cuts in proposed increases, that’s why the American people don’t believe that they have a solution.”

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Sen. Rand Paul, joined by only one Republican, loses battle against martial law legislation

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Talk about strange bedfellows!  Rand Paul, Kentucky’s Republican Junior Senator, found himself teamed up yesterday with Senate left-wing Democrats and the ACLU, in a failed attempt to insert an amendment into the massive National Defense Authorization Act, which would have limited the federal government’s power to enforce martial law against American civilians.

Sixteen Democrats and an independent joined with Republicans to defeat an amendment by Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) that would have killed the provision, voting it down with 60 against, and 38 for it; keeping in the controversial provision which allows the military to detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them indefinitely without trial.

Senator Paul observed that the unamended law would mean that any American citizen suspected of aiding terrorism would get just one hearing, where the military could assert that the person is a suspected terrorist, and then he could be locked up for life, without ever being formally charged.  “I’m very, very, concerned about having U.S. citizens sent to Guantanamo Bay for indefinite detention,” said Sen. Paul.  Illinois Senator Mark Kirk was the only other Republican joining Sen. Paul in his support for the Udall amendment.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina—one of the staunchest opponents of the Udall amendment—had a different take on the need to empower the government to arrest and detain terrorism suspects . . .

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House ethics committee considering full scale investigation into allegations against Alaska’s Rep. Don Young

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The House Ethics Committee announced on Monday that it will take another 45 days to determine whether to launch full-scale investigations into allegations against Reps. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) and Don Young (R-Alaska).

Reps. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) and Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), the chairman and the ranking member of the Ethics Committee, made the statement in response to requests for investigations into the two veteran lawmakers from the Office of Congressional Ethics. The Ethics Committee has up to 90 days to act an OCE recommendation by conducting its own probe or making the results of the OCE review public.

Winsome Packer, a former staffer on the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, which Hastings chaired, claims that she was the victim of “unwelcome sexual advances” and “unwelcome touching” by the congressman. Packer has filed a lawsuit against Hastings asserting that he retaliated against her when she objected to his behavior.

Packer has been aided by the conservative group Judicial Watch in her lawsuit against Hastings.

It is unclear what OCE was scrutinizing in the Young case, but the cantankerous Alaska Republican was the subject of a long-running Justice Department probe until last year. DOJ looked at Young’s ties to Bill Allen, a former oil industry executive who was at the center of the federal corruption case against the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska).

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The delusional Democrats plot Obama’s “Path to 270”: saying it doesn’t make it so

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Seeing the curtain slowly but steadily descend on their socialist reign has apparently scared a few well known Democrat analysts into publishing a “plan” to reelect Barack Obama. Reading it, one can almost hear the socialist anthem The Internationale.

The “Path to 270” (Pt270) plan denies the realities of the very demographics it uses and the only honest feature of its make up is an acknowledgement that White people are not going to vote for Democrats any time soon.

Pt270 believes Obama can magically cut Democrat loses among college grads to 15% instead of the 30% beating they got in 2010 when unemployment among college graduates was 4.2%.

A Gallup poll of college graduates finds 11% unemployed or under-employed which is 2% above the national average. It would be an amazing and quite unlikely feat to keep Democrats loses down to “only” last year’s 30%.

The next dream from Pt270 is the one where Obama and the Democrats abandon trying to appeal to Whites without college degrees – 72%- are and replace those lost voters with White the 28% that have college degrees. Aside from the lopsided numbers comparing one to the other, only 49% of college grads self identify as liberals – and there open to considering the Democrats as candidates they could support.

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Video: Newt Gingrich Responds About Washington Post Journalist Looking for Dirt on Him

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While on Talk Radio with Dana Loesch of the Dana Show on St Louis’s FM 97.1, Newt Gingrich was asked about the Washington Post journalist tweeting openly looking for dirt on him, Gingrich replied “I wish the media would crowd source what Obama did at Columbia University and I wish they would crowd source and figure out what he did with Saul Alinsky’s ideas on the south side of Chicago. The news media has never found itself excited about the facts about Barack Obama.”

If Gingrich is the Republican nominee, this is the type of tough action he will need to take with Obama and the media.

Abortion Nearly Triples Breast Cancer Risk, New Study Finds

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A new study published by scientists who examined diabetes mellitus type 2, reproductive factors, and breast cancer found a statistically significant association showing a 2.86-fold increased breast cancer risk from one induced abortion.

The study, led by Lilit Khachatryan, included researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the University of Pennsylvania. Khachatryan is from the Department of Public Health, American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia; Robert Scharpfb is from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Sarah Kagan is from the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania.

The study, published in Taylor & Francis, also found that delaying a first full-term pregnancy, which is frequently done by women having abortions, also raises the breast cancer risk wheras giving birth resulted in a 64% reduced risk.

Khachatryan’s team reported a statistically significant 13% increased breast cancer risk for every one year delay of a first full term pregnancy (FFTP), with delayed FFTPs until ages 21-30 or after age 30 resulting in 2.21-fold and 4.95-fold increased risks respectively. On the other hand, women with FFTPs before age 20 did not see a comparable breast cancer risk.

They wrote: “Any birth was protective (adjusted OR = 0.36, 95% CI 0.20–0.66). Each year delay in first pregnancy increased risk (adjusted OR = 1.13, 95% CI 1.01–1.27) as did induced abortions (adjusted OR = 2.86, 95% CI 1.02–8.04).”

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Barney Frank: Good Riddance

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To listen to the “elite” media you’d think that a renowned statesman was regrettably planning to leave the political scene.

As Jason Mattera of Human Events has noted, “After his announcement that he won’t seek reelection, The Washington Post heralded the disheveled congressman Barney Frank as leaving a ‘legacy that crosses from legislative cornerstones to political confrontations to a historic place as the nation’s most prominent gay lawmaker.’ ”

Paul Kane of the Post continued to slobber: “On the left, Frank was a hero both for his effort to rein in the nation’s largest banks and for his role in promoting gay rights, having been the first member of Congress to declare his sexual orientation while in office.”

The Post glossed over the fact that Barney Frank’s homosexual roommate and lover had once used the congressman’s residence almost as a brothel. That, I assume, comes under the heading of “promoting gay rights.”

For all his sexual deviancy, Barney Frank’s greatest offense had more to do with his ultra-left-wing policies.

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Obama Legalizes Horse Slaughter for Human Consumption

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On the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, Barack Obama broke a campaign pledge and signed a bill legalizing the slaughter of American horses for human consumption.

Congress banned the slaughter of horses in 2006 by withholding funding for inspectors. A handful of Congressmen removed the amendment from a mandatory spending bill that arrived on the president’s desk just before Thanksgiving.

Obama quietly signed the bill on November 18, despite having promised to maintain the ban at all costs during the 2008 campaign. Asked in a questionnaire, “Will you support legislation…to institute a permanent ban on horse slaughter and exports of horses for human consumption,” Obama simply responded, “Yes.”

Horse slaughter plants are now planned in at least eight states, including Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Missouri, Nebraska, and Georgia.

Already more than 100,000 American horses are slaughtered each year, including 10,000 Thoroughbreds.

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S&P downgrades the credit ratings of dozens of banks

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Standard and Poor’s downgraded the credit ratings of dozens of banks Tuesday, after applying new criteria to the world’s 37 largest financial institutions.

Among those to suffer a ratings cut: Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500), Morgan Stanley (MS, Fortune 500), Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500).

Ratings of Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley dropped one notch to A- from A. S&P maintained a “negative” outlook on those companies.

Wells Fargo (WFC, Fortune 500) was cut one level to A+ from AA-, and also has a “negative” outlook.

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