Republican candidate: Obama, BP ‘colluded’ to make oil spill happen

Bill Randall, a North Carolina Republican candidate for Congress, is calling for a “thorough investigation” into whether President Barack Obama’s administration colluded with BP to allow the Gulf oil spill.

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Last Month: Ron Paul: Those Who Voted Against Audit The Fed Will Pay The Price

Texas Congressman Ron Paul appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box earlier today to discuss the financial crisis and his ongoing effort to audit the Federal Reserve.

Paul, speaking publicly for the first time since the Senate passed a watered down version of his HR1207 amendment to fully audit the Fed, said that those who had essentially voted for more Fed power would see repercussions.

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Senator: Kagan Argued Government Could Ban Books

Author: Paul Joseph Watson
Source: Prison Planet
Date: Monday, May 17, 2010
McConnell highlights yet more evidence of Supreme Court nominee’s alarming disdain for the First Amendment

In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Senator Mitch McConnell pointed out that Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan once argued that the government should have the power to ban [...]

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Ron Paul to Obama: Don’t Assassinate US Citizens!

On February 24, 2010, Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) spoke on the House floor and warned that the assassination of American citizens by their own government is setting a dangerous precedent for the rest of us. Although Paul’s claim appears to be outrageous from the surface, below is a link to an article written by Jason Ryan and posted on ABC News entitled “License to Kill? Intelligence Chief Says U.S. Can Take Out American Terrorists: Director of National Intelligence Says Intelligence Community Can Target Citizens Presenting a Terrorist Threat”. The article was written on February 3, 2010, and the link to the article is below at:

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Rep. Burgess: If Mandate To Buy Health Insurance Upheld By Court, No Limit To What Govt Can Force People To Buy

Representative Michael Burgess (R-Texas) told CNSNews.com that if the mandate in the health care law requiring individuals to purchase health insurance or be penalized is upheld by the courts, the federal government could mandate anything, such as requiring all Americans to purchase a General Motors car.

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Ron Paul states at a congressional hearing about withdrawing from Afghanistan “This war is an illegal war!”

(USWGO Alt. News – CSPAN Watching – Writer Brian D. Hill)A video that has surfaced on YouTube from the Afghanistan war debate yesterday, that is over withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, that is by a YouTube user nicknamed MoxNewsDotCom, has brought out Ron Paul’s views on how we are easily slipping into war, that the Afghanistan war served on purpose and that it was an illegal and immoral war. A rough transcript by Brian D. Hill with some help from members of Ron Paul Forums was also created to create the article about Ron Pauls views over the war in Afghanistan and also he talked about how we slid into Iraq for war as well.

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Transcript of Ron Paul’s speech at the Congressional hearing on Withdrawing U.S. Troops from Afghanistan

Mr Speaker… I rise in strong support of this resolution. I thank the gentlemen from Ohio for bringing this issue up. It is late. This war started ten years ago; it’s about time we talked about it. It was said earlier on that is hard to quit a war and we shouldn’t be quitting. I’ll tell you what the real problem is: it’s too easy to start a war, it’s too easily to get involved and that is our problem.

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The Court Must Defend Torture Victims’ Rights

Today, the United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a case whose outcome will either uphold or nullify the rights of victims of foreign torture, including U.S. soldiers, to sue under American law.

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Is America Becoming A Police State?

There is a classic story about how no one had been able to capture a herd of wild hogs that was rooting up crops from numerous farms. It got so bad that rewards had been posted for anyone clever enough to corral the critters. But even this resulted in only limited success.

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Senator Evan Bayh’s departure sparks debate about partisanship in Congress

Sen. Evan Bayh’s surprise decision not to seek reelection touched off a debate Tuesday among strategists and scholars about whether the Indiana senator’s depiction of the “brain dead” politics and hyper-partisanship of Congress is accurate or overblown — and, if accurate, whether walking away was the right decision.

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