Recent content by Churchill2004

I normally would say only a Congresscritter's own constituents should call their office/write a letter/etc. But that dynamic does not apply to an officer of the whole house or committee chairman- particularly the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader (who is President pro tem of...

Will it matter much to the average person? Probably not, absent something truly horrific and unexpected being discovered. But the analogy to the LIBOR scandal is a good one- sometimes ideas filter up from the grassroots, sometimes they filter down from the people who pay attention to a given...

I've definitely seen- and had non-political friends notice and comment on while watching TV coverage- the upsurge in the media of the "usama" spelling. Our initial theory when we saw on Fox was actually somewhat the opposite- that "usama" is a subtle attempt to distance Obama's victory in...

No contemporary "anti-federalist" would have accepted that label, I dont know why we should claim it. That's what Jefferson's "we are all republicans, we are all federalists" was all about.

I don't think that's per se illegal, but whoever's collecting the money can max out on their legal limit just like the rest of us. So it's possibly fraudulent inasmuch as they don't state that. If some one sells some t-shirts and then donates to RP, it is not illegal.

There's noting wrong with this argument. The problem is with implying or outright stating EQUIVALENCE between slavery and the income tax. That's what gets people so upset- they take away that we're arguing the current tax system is somehow as bad or worse than chattel slavery. And that turns...

Of course there are other defintions. The one I was using was not "narrow", it's what immediately comes to mind when 98% of people hear the word slavery.

Eh, at some point yes. Wouldn't really do much now but make us happy. Though from the videos I've seen of her I certainly wouldnt mind seeing an interview or two with her. She's a funny, feisty, sweet old lady. :)

Tried to convince my roommate to put $5,000 in when they were at 0.80. We're all kicking ourselves pretty hard right now over that one. Thinking we'll buy in now if they get down to ~5.50-5.00.

What's with this "far behind in polls" stuff? I sense a lot of people are just repeating it as common wisdom without checking the polls. Without Huckabee, Palin, or Trump in, Paul is consistently at 10-15% and firmly in the top tier if not second place. In the more inclusive polls he still...

The problem is there isn't really much to look at there yet. It's a pretty site, but it still needs to be fleshed out with a lot more stuff. Pretty much the only reason to go the website right now is if you want to donate. I was expecting the full site to be rolled out with the announcement, I'm...

There is a similar (though spectacularly unsuccesful) Christian Dominionist/secessionist movement in SC.

Not exactly. Cato supports 14th Amendment "incorporation" of the Bill of Rights agsinst the states. Alan Gura's work in Chicago v McDonald is a good example of this. Paleocons are much less supportive of the of Federal courts striking down state laws. Both strongly support Federalism, its just...

neg rep for the completely uncalled for rudeness. I am not defending the income tax- I hate it as much as everyone else here. It is factually true that your are not legally required to earn taxable income, and it is in fact possible (though not very practical) for most people to survive doing...

No one is forcing you to work. Yes, in a sense the income tax can be compared to slavery. To not see the huge differences though is tone-deaf in the extreme.