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Ron Paul’s 15 Most Extreme Positions

Mother Jones has more details in their post, which is a few months old, but worth another look considering who’s leading in Iowa. I’ll give you the bullet points only, but go here for the rest:

To name just a few of these politically dicey positions, President Ron Paul would like to

1. Eviscerate Entitlements

2. Lay Off Half His Cabinet

3. Enable State Extremism re: women’s reproductive rights, marriage equality, religion, etc.

4. Protect Sexual Predators’ Privacy

5. Rescind the Bin Laden Raid

6. Simplify the “ludicrous” Census

7. Let the Oldest Profession Be

8. Legalize ALL Drugs

9. Keep Monopolies Intact

10. Lay Off Ben Bernanke

11. Stop Policing the Environment

12. Not Do Anything, but Still… Would not have voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964

13. Let Markets Care for the Disabled (bye-bye American Disabilities Act)

14. First, Do Harm (re: emergency rooms)

15. Diss Mother Teresa

H/t: @LavaQue1

Video- Rick Perry Pardons a Dead Man

I still get the heebie jeebies when I hear those neanderthals clap. Great catch by Mother Jones. The man is stone liar and stupid to boot.

Meet the Tea Party’s Military Wing

By GottaLaff

Back in October 2009, I posted a Special Comment by 42bkdodgr about Pat Buchanan and the Oath Keepers:

The organization is made up of ex-Army paratroopers and police officers who repledge themselves to defend the Constitution, even if it means disobeying orders. Stewart Rhodes, the organization founder, says the reason for the type of membership, is “my focus is on the guys with the guns”.

Mother Jones picks up where 42bkdodgr left off:

[A] small group of fellow soldiers at the Fort Drum Army base in upstate New York are angry about the recent direction of the federal government. In the belief that it is already starting to turn on its citizens, they are preparing for the day the feds will find some pretext to declare martial law. Their conspiracy-minded rhetoric mirrors that of a recently established group called Oath Keepers. [...] [T]he group encourages active duty soldiers to stay anonymous—they identify themselves as Oath Keepers and subscribe to the group’s tenets. But Pray and his pals take the rhetoric a step further: They are actively stockpiling weapons, running drills, and outlining a plan of action for the day “the shit hits the fan”—the day they will be forced to go AWOL to their “fortified bunker,” and if it becomes necessary, to turn their guns against fellow soldiers. “I’m willing to fight to the death,” Pray tells reporter Justine Sharrock in her new profile of Oath Keepers and its founder.

They also have a lengthy piece here called “Oath Keepers and the Age of Treason”…

Glenn Beck loves them. Tea Partiers court them. Congressmen listen to them. Meet the fast-growing “patriot” group that’s recruiting soldiers to resist the Obama administration.

And they provide a slide show of who is connected to this lovely group. Here are the thumbnails, and each has accompanying text that is quite revelatory:

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Disturbing, to say the least.

H/t: Gr8RDH