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p.s. Whew, this is a long post. I really intended to just briefly hit the top ten, but the more I listed, the more I thought of. p.p.s. If you like Connery, there was a pretty decent movie -- the Untouchables -- playing through my head while I wrote this up...

Well, arguably you are correct ... but remember that the Fed is only quasi-governmental, it wants to pretend to be private and independent rather than a tool of the dominant twin-parties ... hence my question. See the wikipedia link in the OP about the public-vs-private nature of the Fed --...

The current KS gov is Sam Brownback, and he was previously a senator too -- he claims in this video to have voted for "more audit and disclosure" regarding the Fed when he was a senator, so perhaps he is also the very same senator you were thinking of...

The long term goal is end the Fed, as the phrase goes, which can only be accomplished by the federal congress ... not to mention repeal of the 16th which can only be accomplished by Constitutional amendment (setting the tax code flat and then gradually driving the percentage towards zero would...

This guy -- http://www.claytonforsenate.com/issues.html (Parents were Goldwater repubs.) He ran for senate in 2008, losing the dem-primary with 30k votes to the winner's 60k votes; the eventual dem nominee lost badly to Lamar Alexander that year. In 2012, the day after Clayton won his second...

What things? What arguments? What issues? What stuff? You are being too vague for me to even have the slightest clue about what you are referencing. Post your halfway-through-it, that would be better than nothing. Or use the send-private-message button at the top, if you're worried it will...

To forget is human, to forgive is divine You mean, vocally dissenting, like Ron Paul? Me neither. But actions speak louder than words. His liberty-record is from those bad old bugaboos in the John Birch Society -- they give a rating to reps and senators on the constitutionality of their...

Imagine a debate-stage full of liberty-candidates.... Yes, absolutely -- that was the main reason the debate-rules were rigged in 2011 so that two-term gov Gary Johnson was booted, whereas one-term gov Mitt Romney was always invited -- to make Ron Paul look alone slash fringe slash crazy. We...

Since I can see *your* posts, the internet has not yet been conquered, right? If your assumptions (stated as assertions) come true, then your conclusion (stated as certainty) will also be true. But since you and I are having this conversation, clearly the govt does NOT yet have "complete...

Actually, although it is certainly too early to say what will happen in 2016, of the choices that are getting bandied about now, Rubio is pretty decent. His voting record is about 80% in favor of liberty, which is not much compared to Rand's 95%, but is dramatically better than McCain's 60%...

Absolutely true. Significant correction, though: the members of the Repub Natl Cmte are up for re-election in 2014, at the various stacon meetings. Ron Paul won the popvote in the Virgin Islands -- they have three seats on the RNCmte, but I bet all three are Romney supporters at the moment...

You don't consider the polls from early in 2012 that showed Obama and Ron Paul running neck and neck with 42% each, at the same time as polls showed Obama and Mitt running neck and neck with 43% each, count as evidence that a libertarian-leaning constitutionalist can win? Around the same time...

As you wish -- I hereby replace all mentions of 'we' with 'I', except as includes others reading who aren't you, and who happen to agree with me. Ummm, happy? If not, reflect that when advocating some position, either you use the scientific-we (Feynman), the royal-we (Romney), or the...

Well, since Gary only got 1M votes in the general election, and Ron Paul got 2M in the repub primary, clearly anybody paying attention ought to 'know' that the liberty-movement has more support than the election-night returns might suggest. But do we have any specific numbers, in terms of...

Ann Barnhardt is an interesting character, but she's more of a tea-party-objectivist than she is a paulitician. http://www.dailypaul.com/236367/ann-barnhardt-does-it-again-the-first-republic-is-dead-the-second-one-will-rise