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Is Ted Cruz the real inheritor of Ron Paul’s Liberty Movement? Oct 15, 2015

Currently I'm a supporter of Rand Paul's campaign for President and I've donated so far 40 bucks. I love Rand to death, but his campaign has been subpar in the organization and the fundraising. Ted Cruz by contrast collected 31 MILLION in the first week of his campaign. Recently at the RLC gathering in NH, he nabbed 51% of votes while Rand got 57%. Kinda odd that both of them won majority support, but I suspect it was a multi ballot option system which would explain that oddity. It does show that there's a strong libertarian appeal among both men....

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@justinamash for Speaker of the House (@SenateMajLdr must go next) Sep 30, 2015

Just several days ago, John Boehner announced he'll resign at the end of October. Not just from the office Speaker, but Congress period. Thank God! Be gone with that fraudulent politician! Most of the things he's done as Speaker have been either mediocre or just horrible. The Speaker of the House holds nearly as much power as the Presidency when muscles are fully flexed. And John Boehner has never flexed them in the nearly 5 years he's been in the podium. Ever since his resignation was announced, the immediate presumptive successor was Kevin McCarthy who's been the House Floor Leader since...

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@realDonaldTrump: Clown of the 2016 Presidential Race Sep 11, 2015

I've admittedly have gone back and forth on The Donald since he first entered the race earlier this summer. On one hand, he's a fraud who's switched policy positions more times than LBJ. As recent as 3 years ago, he was friends with Hillary Clinton. Now he despises her. He was a "liberal" on healthcare and helped the Democrats in '06 and '08 the latter of which gave us Barack Obama and filibuster-proof Democratic Senate that passed Obamacare. In fact, just as recent as the first GOP debate, he called the Canadian and Scotland healthcare systems "great". Try asking the...

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My rating for the GOP Presidential Candidates Aug 22, 2015

This is my overview and grading of all the Presidential candidates. I'll say however much I feel like whether it's a paragraph or two, or just a couple of sentences. My grading system is 0-100 with 100 being excellent. I plan to go alphabetical order so let's start with Jeb! J.Bush - 40% This maybe being a little too kind to him as I've got my major issues; among the biggest being his foreign policy stance (he said at a National Security Summit recently that going into Iraq was the right decision). He also said the NSA needs to expand...

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The Greatest Miracle of the Free Market that’s never spoken of Aug 17, 2015

Leftists and socialists will generally say that the free market capitalist system exploits the poor and feeds the greedy and evil rich or something to that effect. Quite the contrary is true. Over the past two centuries, free markets have helped countries and entire continents even to get out of poverty and into prosperity. Case and point of this is Africa. More and more Sub-Sahara countries are pursuing economic liberalization and privatization. Africa as a whole has had the greatest economic growth of any continent or region in the world, even that of Hong Kong or Singapore. Something else of...

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The Ponzi Scheme of the Federal Reserve Jul 29, 2015

I recently discovered a site called DollarTimes.com which breaks down how much the dollar in let's say 2015 would've been worth in 1955. Or you can do the contrary. It's a really cool site so you should go check it out. And it highlights what a disaster the federal reserve and government policy has been. The average median income in 1955 would've been roughly $29,000 a year. Last year it was $53,891. Any average joe would look at that and say 'Oh great! That's progress!'. Not so fast, the devil is in the details. Yes we earn more dollars, but...

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Why the GOP adopt Drug Policy neutrality in their platform Jul 1, 2015

As marijuana legalization spreads further across the country with AK, OR & DC most recent to join, Republican candidates (mostly) say they'll leave states be in that perspective. That is with exception of Mike Huckabee, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio who've each said they'll enforce federal laws on states that legalize marijuana. These are the same people who've denounced the SCOTUS's ruling on same-sex marriage several days ago because the states should be allowed to choose their own approach on marriage. You know, as opposed to being a big-ass hypocrite, try being consistent one way or the other. Either endorse...

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What the Response to Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Jun 30, 2015

Over the past few days, I've wrote columns on SCOTUS rulings of Obamacare subsidies and same-sex marriage. Today I've decided to the GOP some advice on what to do in response. While I don't approve of the SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage, there's some positive aspects happening. For one this ruling is actually prompting states to end government involvement with marriage. First state to seriously flirt with the idea was Oklahoma a year ago after a federal judge declared our state amendment against gay marriage unconstitutional. Then just this previous session a bill to end govt marriage licensing was passed by the...

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My Love for the Star Wars Saga UPDATED Jun 29, 2015

 Ever since I was 3 years old, I've been a devoted fan of the Star Wars Saga. And it's especially great to be one right now as the whole Saga is expanding with a whole new trilogy of episodes VII, VIII, IX and a trilogy of anthology films each of which will focus on its own particular thing. Not to mention there's also the Rebels TV series which I've been a huge fan of since it started airing last year and I was able to watch the season 2 premiere featured Darth Vader with James Earl Jones returning to the...

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The Free Market solution for Healthcare Jun 28, 2015

The Supreme Court ruled on King v. Burwell 3 days ago as I'm writing this that the IRS rulings are constitutional. Whereas with the gay marriage decision I was pretty much meh on it (with exception to the civil liberties aspect) as I explain in my column from yesterday, I was outraged and baffled by the Supreme Court's upholding of the IRS rules on Obamacare subsidies to states with federal exchanges. The law itself clearly states that only states with their own exchanges are eligible for subsidies, but John Roberts for a 2nd time now has saved Obamacare (for a...

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