Rand Paul

As James Franco said, "It's what the people want."On Saturday Jodie Evans, a cofounder of CodePink: Women for Peace, went to David Barron’s house and gave him this letter. She asked if he really believed it was ok to order the death of a US citizen without due process. He slammed the door on her. Does that mean he does believe it so didn’t want to answer her question? Jodie didn't figure in Tim Phelps' L.A.

The Republican Establishment is trying to make a come back after badly losing two presidential cycles in a row with feeble and extremely unpopular establishment candidates, John McCain and Mitt Romney. Today's primary in North Carolina is their shot to nominate the Speaker of North Carolina's widely hated state House of Representatives.

How humiliating it must be for Miss McConnell to be prostrating himself before Rand Paul like his job depended on it. It wasn't that long ago that McConnell recruited Trey Grayson to run as the Kentucky Establishment candidate against Paul, who McConnell helped paint as a whacky Tea Party extremist.

Two wings, one grand old partyBret Stephens is a deputy editor of the radical right editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Before that he was the editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post. No telling when his bigotry made him one of America's most vile smear artists.

It's no secret that Blue America is as excited about the Shenna Bellows race in Maine this cycle, as we were about the Elizabeth Warren race in Massachusetts last cycle. The two women are different in many ways, of course, but both are strong, independent-minded, brilliant and focused on breaking through the same-ole/same-ole that has made Washington so utterly dysfunctional.

It's good to know that, despite losing the Virginia governorship, former AG "Cuckoo Ken" Cuccinelli hasn't forsworn the public arena.by KenEvery time you think you've heard it all . . . .I don't know how many readers remember Bruce Fein as a pipsqueak who styled himself a "constitutional lawyer" and squeaked at the time what seemed the nuttiest right-wing nutjob you could have outside the walls of a mental institution. Well, surprise!

Since 2007, Democrats have been predicting that demographics, coupled with Republican knee-jerk bigotry and xenophobia, will turn Texas blue within a decade. When Texas-born Rand Paul confirmed this yesterday, he neglected to mention that Georgia is turning blue just as quickly.

On the February 1, 2014 episode of Exposing Faux Capitalism with Jason Erb, I discussed the following issues: My Josh Tolley Show appearance, recent Ellen Brown appearance, Israel’s online “hate” task force, NY Times hit piece against Rand Paul, how he’s an establishment asset, Tom Woods says NYT smeared him, yet touts their praise of […]

From this January 25, 2014 New York Times hit piece against Rand Paul and Mises Institute associates, Lew Rockwell told a New York Times reporter who requested a tour of the Mises Institute campus that he’s “part of the regime“, yet Lew Rockwell himself is the Chairman of a government-sanctioned and government-regulated institution, the 501(c)(3) […]

From his January 30, 2014 podcast, Tom Woods said, in response to this January 25, 2014 New York Times hit piece against Rand Paul and Mises Institute associates like Walter Block (at 9:47): “Basically, I don’t talk to the New York Times anymore. They write to me, they want some comment, I tell them no, […]