I wish high school and college classrooms would show this 11 min clip in their economy courses. You cannot get enough of this truth serum.

"The Federal Reserve behind the scenes has the power to create money out of thin air. It's very bizarre," Paul said. "They can bail out their friends and let the people they don't like fail, and create a trillion dollars or more out of thin air in order to prop up some companies at the expense of others ... It's absolutely bizarre and, yes, the American people right now I think are waking up to it."

Ron Paul's message is as clear as ever here. And despite the desk anchor at CNBC's efforts to "gotcha" Ron Paul a couple of times, the viewer walks away even more educated for it.

You may do a double take on the source of this surprisingly balanced, cogent analysis of the onward march of big government and its inability to solve problems.

Excerpt from The Great Consolidation: "If consolidation creates a crisis, the answer is further consolidation. If economic centralization has unintended consequences, then you need political centralization to clean up the mess. If a government conspicuously fails to prevent a terrorist attack or a real estate bubble, then obviously it needs to be given more powers to prevent the next one, or the one after that."

Full article at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/opinion/17douthat.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxB6fwgRVkQ&NR=1

Does not get any more crystal clear than these explanations from Ron Paul...

Only 82,000 views?

Common Sense Revisited!

USCOA Manhattan rules Fed must turn over bailout documents under Bloomberg FOIA request. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2rzjENZQV5k
Has the Judiciary had enough of Wall Street?

Bob Schulz has oral arguments on March 11th at the USCOA.

Doing a search for Mr. Schulz's case # Case No. 08-4810 finds this link at the top of the results: http://www.federalreserve.gov/bankinforeg/legaldevelopmentscases.htm

Health Care Reform - How will it be enforced?
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/87697-republicans-a...

Tax Protesting - What has teeth and what will be effective?
http://www.onlinetaxrevolt.com/
vs
http://www.taxfree15.com

Ron Paul's Agenda for a Freedom President
http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/my-plan-for-a-freedom-president/

Ron Paul's Audit the Fed gets a thorough discussion here on CNBC, with time for questions and not just sound byte answers. Looks like Ron Paul is going to have to vote against his own bill HR-1207 (which never even gets mentioned by name) due to a watering down by Barney Frank. I love Ron Paul's comment that he does not vote for bad ideas to hope for a better outcome.

Received in my email today from the We The People Congress/Foundation, who are planning the Continental Congress 2009.

Start:

God bless Ron Paul, Glenn Beck, Edwin Vieira and Bob Schulz.

GOOD NEWS: Each is speaking out about our national suffering and distress, which all agree would never have happened had our elected officials obeyed our Constitution.

Consider just the following ten violations of the Constitution, each of which has undermined our economy, our families and our nation:

Ron Paul's pretty certain that behind the scenes at the G20 central bankers from all over the world, including Ben Bernanke were discussing an international currency. But as Dr. Paul points out, our Federal Reserve is not required by our own law to report to congress on the discussions. Too bad it takes a Russia Today reporter to ask the cogent, relevant questions the American people need to hear answers to.... answers from more than Ron Paul.

Rod Dreher writes for the Dallas Morning News a suprisingly candid and sobering account of the GOP and what they missed in Dr. Paul.

Dreher, a self-proclaimed Huckabee fan, states, "The same GOP establishment that mocked and reviled Dr. Paul now lies shattered. Who believes in this Republican Party anymore? The party destroyed itself with its own unprincipled recklessness, both in foreign and fiscal policy. And it has ruined its reputation among the young - the most ardent of Dr. Paul's supporters, incidentally - who are far more likely to identify with the Democrats."

A friend emailed me a very good question: ... what states can you write in Ron Paul?

Here is a chart on states' write in rules (disclaimer: not sure this is 100%, please check your own state's rules)
http://mfoster.com/misc/write-in_rules_2008.html

This blogger i read often says writing in does not make a statement or an impact that is measurable, because most states won't even report the write ins.
http://libertymaven.com/2008/05/31/ron-paul-write-in-options-rules-for-e...

I sent (bcc'd) the following email missive to over fifty friends and family members in my contact list. Below the end of this email copy way below, I am pasting in the replies that I received, abbreviating their names, etc.
Encouraging everyone to pick up the dialog here rather than the ole email chain...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Todd McGreevy
Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:27 PM
Subject: Time is running out... Pick up the phone.
To:

Or as a friend of mine put it, "Step up or bend over."
Sorry to spam you.