http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/06/ron-paul-vs-new-world-order.html

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/06/trouble-with-ron.html

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/06/man-of-hour.html

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/06/six-impossible-things-before-breakfast.html

I also found the following alleged quote from Ron Paul at this website - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbirchS.htm - but have not been able to source it to see if if is authentic or not

The beneficial, educational impact of the John Birch Society over the past four decades would be hard to overestimate. It is certainly far more than most people realize. Anyone who has been in the trenches over the years battling on any of the major issues - whether it’s pro-life, gun rights, property rights, taxes, government spending, regulation, national security, privacy, national sovereignty, the United Nations, foreign aid - knows that members of the John Birch Society are always in there doing the heavy lifting. And most importantly, they approach all of these issues from a strong moral and constitutional perspective. Lots of people pay lip service to the Constitution, but Birchers study it, understand it, apply it, and are serious about protecting it and holding public officials accountable to it.

The appeal he has to some politically naive progressives and the stench of the kind of populism that allowed the Nazis to flourish and Hitler to come to power.

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/davidneiwert/7443526748894152584/#285627

Oh, and you'll appreciate this. If there had been a hammer within reach at the time I read the following question in defense of Paul's desire to eliminate the Estate Tax I doubt I would have been able to resist the urge to smash my skull in

"Why should orphans be forced to pay taxes on the money their parents already paid taxes on?"

Couple that with his having HIRED a total fascist like Gary North as a legislative aide

For clarity's sake, the species of fascism Mona refers to is Christian Reconstructionism. I'm guessing most libertarians would Christian Reconstructionism to be, at the least, slightly incompatible with libertarian principles.

Although Rushdoony, himself, was a critic of "statism" and considered himself a "Christian libertarian."

http://www.reason.com/news/show/30789.html

"So let us be blunt about it. We must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God." - Gary North

But if Libby was a Democrat lots of the Beltway jounralists that are sympathetic to him would be saying why he needs to go to jail.

Hell, in What Liberal Media? Eric Alterman points out that David Broder rationalized Nixon's law breaking as being less seriousa crime than Clinton's b.j. episode.

The most dangerous proposition advanced by the Yoo-ian Authoritarians is that the "battlefield" in the "war on terror" extends to every square inch of the planet,

Not just the planet - outerspace. One of the quiet goals of the administration is to militarize space and shift NASA's priorities from scientific research to military purposes.

I've got a couple of quotes that I throw off like a broken record whenever the subject of Bush and co. acting lawlessly and their cheerleaders for lawlessness comes up. Here they are, again

The first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridicial person in man. This was done, on the one hand, by putting certain catergories of people outside the protection of the law and forcing at the same time, through the instrument of denationalization, the nontotalitarian world into recognition of lawlessness; it was done, on the other hand, by placing the concentration camp outside the normal penal sytem, and by selecting its inmates outsdie the normal judicial procedure in which a definite crime entails a predictable penalty.

-- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

... there is now a widespread tendency to argue that one can only defend democracy by totalitarian methods ... These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you. Make a habit of imprisoning [Terrorists] without trial, and perhaps the process won’t stop at [Terrorists]

-- George Orwell, "The Freedom of the Press"

I doctored the Orwell quote slightly for full rhetorical effect.

This is a new one for me, h/t Al Gore

The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government, whether Nazi or Communist.

-- Winston Churchill

I've read it and recommend it. I've said previously, but Gore in the book makes much of the criticisms of our culture that are generaly absent from the media but are prevalent in the blogs, and he does so lucidly and intelligently. And it is full of great quotes (the Churhill quote I gave earlier is from the book.)

I'll probably write a review in the next few days or so, but I want to finish reading Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter first, as I will likely tie that into the review.

Also, I'm re-reading What Liberal Media? by Eric Alterman. The section on the 2000 election and the Florida recount are truly outstanding.

Glenn has written about how the press is complicit in selling us a war with Iraq, but its much worse than that. The press sold us a man who should have never have been president in the first place. The media needs to be held to full account for what it has done to this country.