Retiring Ron Paul to Make His Case for Liberty on College Campuses Next Year

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photo credit: gage skidmoreRetiring Rep. Ron Paul plans to deliver speeches on college campuses next year and beyond, continuing his message of liberty and reducing the size of the federal government.

In an interview with The Hill, the Texas Republican clearly indicated that he isn’t ready for the rocking chair.

The 77-year-old physician-politician said, “I’m excited about spending more time on college campuses, not less. College campuses will still be on my agenda. That’s where the action is.”

He added, “The young people don’t like the debt they are inheriting, the violation of their civil liberties. They don’t like the war and it’s a fertile field. The people up here sort of ignore them.”

During the 2012 GOP presidential primary campaign, Paul said that he visited at least 36 college campuses. He was surprised that the best turnout occurred at the historically liberal bastion, U.C. Berkeley, where 8,500 students attended his event.

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Iran Hacks Into Israel’s Military: ‘Gaza will become the graveyard of your soldiers’

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photo credit: _skender_The terrorist group Islamic Jihad, which answers to Iran, has launched a massive cyber attack on the Israeli army in the wake of fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

According to Mashregh, an Iranian media outlet run by the Revolutionary Guards, Islamic Jihad’s Beitol Moghadas (Jerusalem) unit obtained detailed information on 5,000 high-ranking Israeli military personnel. The information includes names, telephone numbers, addresses, emails and rankings, even within the Israeli intelligence division.

The Islamic Jihad unit then emailed those Israeli personnel that it obtained their personal information and that “Gaza will become the graveyard of your soldiers and Tel Aviv a ball of fire,” Mashregh said.

Mashregh published information on 92 of the Israelis, but it also attached a downloadable file with information on the rest of the military personnel.

Reuters reported from Jerusalem Sunday that the Israeli government has come under a massive cyber attack since the Gaza conflict broke out last week. More than 44 million hacking attempts have been made on various Israeli government sites since Wednesday.

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Investment Falls Off a Cliff

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U.S. companies are scaling back investment plans at the fastest pace since the recession, signaling more trouble for the economic recovery.

Half of the nation’s 40 biggest publicly traded corporate spenders have announced plans to curtail capital expenditures this year or next, according to a review by The Wall Street Journal of securities filings and conference calls.

Nationwide, business investment in equipment and software—a measure of economic vitality in the corporate sector—stalled in the third quarter for the first time since early 2009. Corporate investment in new buildings has declined.

At the same time, exports are slowing or falling to such critical markets as China and the euro zone as the global economy downshifts, creating another drag on firms’ expansion plans.

Corporate executives say they are slowing or delaying big projects to protect profits amid easing demand and rising uncertainty. Uncertainty around the U.S. elections and federal budget policies also appear among the factors driving the investment pullback since midyear. It is unclear whether Washington will avert the so-called fiscal cliff, tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to begin Jan. 2.

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Now that’s a mobile home! Inside the $500,000 ‘expedition vehicles’ with solar panels and 2,000-mile gas tank (shame it looks like a garbage truck)

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Most people probably wouldn’t want to live in a garbage truck, but then again most garbage trucks don’t have the amenities this one does.

Unicat Amerigo – which bills its models as the ‘ultimate family Expedition Vehicle’ – are so huge that despite being built as exploration vehicles they’re often mistaken for garbage trucks in photos.

The vehicles are so rugged they were chosen by Jalopnik as one of the best places you could ride out a zombie apocalypse.

Starting at more than $500,000 they may cost more than your average home but then again few homes can drive from coast to coast.

For that you get, depending on the model, a 2,000-mile range and enough supplies to keep people alive for months if need be.

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A View From Israel: Gaza Missiles Launching from Oslo

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[Editor’s note: This article was written by Moshe Feiglin, regarded by some as a Tea Party leader in Israel. In this article, Mr. Feiglin describes his conversation with residents of Sderot, a southern Israel community adjacent to Gaza that Joe Miller visited this past fall. Sderot has been hit by many missiles from Gaza this past week]

On Tuesday of this week, I was at a campaign rally in Sderot. “I would like to ask what some of you may see as a strange question,” I said to the audience in the packed hall. “In the war that is raging right now (this was before the major fighting began on Wednesday) between us and the Gazans, who is right?”

The hall fell silent. The audience looked uncomfortable and curious. “They are right,” one woman said. “We are right,” said another. Most of the audience just looked baffled.

“Look at what is happening “, I continued. “Even here in Sderot, we cannot get a clear answer to the most fundamental of questions. So who is right?”

An endless stream of commentators, security experts and politicians visit Sderot. One advocates targeted assassinations, the other conquest, one says we should talk and the other says we should disengage. When all is said and done, it is clear to all that not one of them has gotten to the root of the real problem and is still incapable – after 12 years of Sderot being on the receiving end of incoming missiles – of relieving the misery of the residents of southern Israel.

Sderot’s problem is not military in nature. Clearly, we are stronger than they are. The reason that we cannot deal with murderous attacks on our citizens is not military – it is spiritual. We have lost our belief in the justice of our cause. A mistake of this proportion cannot be rectified with shortcuts. We must return to the point at which we strayed from the path. That point is Oslo. It is there that we declared that this land is not our land. It is there that we recognized the rights of a different sovereign on our country’s heartland. It is there that we lost the legitimacy for our existence in Sderot and as a result, the ability to fight against an enemy who does believe in the justice of his cause.

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Dead Palestinian Boy Used As Symbol of Israeli Aggression Apparently Killed by Hamas

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Egypt’s Prime Minister Hisham Kandil cried on Friday and kissed the dead child’s forehead, calling him a “martyr.” CNN called him “another victim of an [Israeli] airstrike.” Newspapers showed his photo as an example of the Palestinian civilians killed by Israel’s ongoing military campaign against militants in Gaza.

The only problem with that narrative is that 4-year-old Mahmoud Sadallah was killed by a Hamas rocket that fell short in Gaza instead of its intended target: Israel. According to an Israeli military statement Sunday, “Ninety-nine rockets fired from Gaza have crashed back into Gaza in the last four days. Hamas fires from civilian areas…and hits its own people.”

Pro-Israel blogger Elder of Ziyon reviewed media reports on the incident and wrote: “The IDF did not launch any airstrikes in Gaza while Egyptian PM Kandil was in Gaza.” Israel had agreed to a temporary ceasefire while Kandil was visiting Gaza on Friday, as a gesture to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. Even so, terror groups continued firing on Israel during the diplomatic visit.

Elder of Ziyon pointed out that the Associated Press reported from Gaza that not only where there no eyewitnesses to the strike, no evidence remained onsite for examination. The AP said: “Israel vehemently denied involvement, saying it had not carried out any attacks in the area at the time” and that “…neighbors said local security officials quickly took what remained of the projectile, making it impossible to verify who fired it.”

The New York Times also visited the home and wrote: “. . . the damage was nowhere near severe enough to have come from an Israeli F-16, raising the possibility that an errant missile fired by Palestinian militants was responsible for the deaths.”

See CNN report below:

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Video: Greatest Show on Earth

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No, this video is not political. But it’s incredibly entertaining if you like to see motorcycles racing at over 200 miles per hour across a scenic island between Ireland and Great Britain.

Here’s what Wikipedia says about the race:

The International Isle of Man TT (Tourist Trophy) Race is a motorcycle racing event held on the Isle of Man and was for many years the most prestigious motorcycle race in the world…

The race is run in a time-trial format on public roads closed for racing by the provisions of an Act of Tynwald (the parliament of the Isle of Man). The first race was held on Tuesday 28 May 1907 and was called the International Auto-Cycle Tourist Trophy. The event was organised by the Auto-Cycle Club over 10 laps of the St John’s Short Course of 15 miles 1,470 yards for road-legal touring motorcycles with exhaust silencers, saddles, pedals and mud-guards…

In the early 21st century, the premier TT racing bikes complete the Snaefell course at an average speed exceeding 120 mph…

The TT races are extremely dangerous because of the high speeds on very narrow, twisting streets, roads and lanes flanked by stone walls and even buildings.[citation needed] Between 1907 and 2009 (at the end of 2009 TT races period) there have been 239 rider deaths during official practices or races on the Snaefell Mountain Course (this number includes the riders killed during Manx Grand Prix and the Clubman TT races).

Murkowski, the Blame Game, and GOP Irrelevance-Page 2

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[Go back to page 1] Apparently, it has never occurred to these unnamed ‘Senators’ that holding ordinary people in contempt is no road to electoral victory, much less to a government of, by, and for the people.

Their blame game for back-to-back electoral defeats is as puerile and preposterous as Barack Obama heading into his fifth year in office blaming President Bush for all the problems that he created himself.

I’m sure we don’t know the half.

These are, no doubt the same senators who voted to allow a write-in candidate, running against her party’s nominee, to keep her seniority on the Senate Energy Committee, granting her access to K Street’s millions simply because ‘she’s our friend.’

They are, no doubt, the same senators who oversaw the NRSC’s efforts to undercut Joe Miller’s electoral chances by presumably raising money in his name, only to deploy it against him.

They are the same senators who offered moral and material support to the candidate rejected by the party faithful, one even sending his son up to work on payroll for the write-in campaign (any wonder that he was booed at the Alaska Republican Convention?).

Did these ‘Senators’ also grant their blessing to the systematic destruction of conservatives in the presidential primary, while accepting their former colleague Barack Obama to be just another ‘nice guy’ who was simply misguided? I’m sure they were probably the ‘brain trust’ that found telling the truth about President Obama’s scandal-ridden administration beneath them. As though truth telling is somehow un-statesman-like.


These are undoubtedly the senators who didn’t have the temerity for a budget fight in the month leading up to the election because they are afraid of their own shadow. Really? No budget fight? Not even with a president whose party was derelict in their duty to pass a budget when they controlled both chambers of the Congress, and the White House? No fight with the president who hadn’t proposed a serious budget in three years? No fight with the president who put forward budgets in back-to-back years that couldn’t garner a single vote in the United States Senate? Not even from his own party?

Those kinds of timid souls need to retire to the sidelines. They obviously are not up to the task. The last thing we need is their ilk in our State trying to dictate the terms of our Republican primary in 2014. We don’t need their help. Not now. Not ever.

The NRSC and the RNC need to tend to their own business, get their own house in order, and stop meddling in the affairs of the people. They are here to serve us, not he other way round. We will tend to our own business, and nominate whoever we dear well please.

So to all you wise guys hiding in the shadows of the United States Senate, and to all you geniuses in Alaska who have all the answers, I offer you this. If you want to know why we lost the election, look in the mirror. If you voted for Murkowski in 2010, look in the mirror. There you will see the road to the wilderness. If you follow it, you may never come back.

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Matt Johnson is a freelance writer, consultant and political activist from Chugiak, AK.

FBI Opens Fire on Unarmed Girl During Unexplained Raid of DC-Area Home (+video)

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An early morning FBI raid has a District Heights family in fear. The agents came into the house and drew their guns at the family’s daughter, but she wasn’t armed.

“They almost hit my daughter, man,” says Emory Hughley. “If I hadn’t told her to go back in her room they probably would have shot her.”

Hughley says he was asleep in the basement when he heard a bang at the front door. His 18-year-old daughter Myasia was upstairs in her room with two friends who were spending the night. Around 6 a.m. he says he came up to the living room and saw 15 FBI SWAT agents coming inside, guns drawn.

“I’m shouting ‘Nobody is armed, nobody has a gun!’ and then all of a sudden I heard ‘She’s got a gun!’ and they just opened fire,” he says.

Hughley says he looked up and saw his daughter standing outside her bedroom in the hallway. Then he heard gunfire. Read more from this story, including a statement that the man’s young daughter was hit by bullet shrapnel in the back of the neck, HERE.

Arizona Gun Store Tells Obama Voters to ‘Turn Around and Leave’

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photo credit: mike saechang An Arizona gun store has a simple message for Barack Obama voters: you’re not welcome here.

The Southwest Shooting Authority in Pinetop, Ariz. posted a sign on its door and took out a newspaper ad declaring that if you voted for the president last week, you’re not allowed in.

“If you voted for Obama, please turn around and leave! You have proven that you are not responsible enough to own a firearm!” the sign states.

Owner Cope Reynolds conceded that he can’t really tell who voted for Obama unless they “own up to it” — but if they do, they’re out.

“If they don’t say anything, we’ll never know,” Reynolds said in an email to the Phoenix New Times. “However, if they own up to it, we will not serve them.”

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