Libertarians for Ron Paul

“When health freedom advocates need a congressman to fight against attempts to restrict access to dietary supplements, they turn to Dr. Ron Paul. Dr. Paul is the leader in Washington who is not afraid to fight the powerful special interests that want to limit access to dietary supplements. ”

“When Dr. Paul learned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was trying to censor truthful health claims by supplement manufacturers, he introduced the Health Freedom Protection Act (H.R. 2117). “…

“Our health freedom is also threatened by attempts to “harmonize” American laws with those of other countries, thus forcing Americans to live under European-style restrictions of dietary supplements. Dr. Paul worked to add language to the 1997 FDA Modernization Act forbidding the FDA from harmonizing our rules with those of any other nation. ”

Full story http://ronpaul2008.typepad.com/ron_paul_2008/2007/10/health-freedom.html

“This legislation seeks to restore the checks and balances enshrined in the Constitution by our Founding Fathers to prevent abuse of Americans by their government. This proposed legislation would repeal the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and re-establish the traditional practice that military commissions may be used to try war crimes in places of active hostility where a rapid trial is necessary to preserve evidence or prevent chaos. ”

Rep. Ron Paul details his bill to restore constitutional liberties http://antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=11790 

“The problem with Hillary Clinton is two-fold: First, she’s likely to be as bad or worse than Bush on all of those issues, and second, she’s the one Democrat the Republicans still have a chance to beat.”…

“Start with Clinton’s general election vulnerabilities. No Democrat inspires more wrath and anger on the right than Hillary Clinton. This isn’t because of her policy positions—on most issues, she’s really not all that far removed from President Bush. It’s leftover partisan anger from the Bill Clinton years.”…

“Then there is Hillary Clinton on the issues. Cato Institute President Ed Crane recently wrote a piece for the Financial Times pointing out that when you strip away the partisan coating, Mrs. Clinton’s grandiose, big-government vision is really no different than that envisioned by the neoconservatives so loathed by the left. Clinton, remember, not only voted for the Iraq war, she still hasn’t conceded she was wrong to do so, and has made no promise to end it any time soon.”

Radley Balko looks at Clinton’s likely continuation of Bush League statism @ http://www.reason.com/news/show/123103.html 

At the Huffington Post, Naomi Wolf looks at the expansion of Presidential power since George W. Bush took office, and the threat this poses to our freedom. She outlines the proposals of conservative and liberal groups to limit the power of the President, and then notes that Rep. Ron Paul has introduced the legislative proposals of the American Freedom Agenda. Full column http://tinyurl.com/2g26rs 

“The defense industry this year abandoned its decade-long commitment to the Republican Party, funneling the lion share of its contributions to Democratic presidential candidates, especially to Hillary Clinton who far out-paced all her competitors.”

“An examination of contributions of $500 or more, using the Huffington Post’s Fundrace website, shows that employees of the top five arms makers - Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon and General Dynamics — gave Democratic presidential candidates $103,900, with only $86,800 going to Republicans.”

“Senator Clinton took in $52,600, more than half of the total going to all Democrats, and a figure equaling 60 percent of the sum going to the entire GOP field. Her closest competitor for defense industry money is former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R.), who raised $32,000.”

More evidence on Hillary Clinton and the warfare state http://tinyurl.com/2vbdm2

Rep. Ron Paul laments the death of a proposal to elminate the inheritance tax, which is a burden on so many middle class families http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/003023.html

“President Bush’s drive to expand executive power over surveillance, detention, interrogation and the meaning of new laws has drawn largely ineffectual protests from Congress. But a group of liberals and a handful of prominent conservatives are pressing would-be successors to renounce those powers before they take office.”

“Both the liberal American Freedom Campaign and the conservative American Freedom Agenda have adopted platforms complaining of administration muscle-flexing on issues ranging from the treatment of prisoners at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Justice Department’s threats to prosecute reporters for espionage.”

Complete story @ http://tinyurl.com/yogype 

“Once again, Hillary Clinton has unveiled a massive new plan to reform America’s health care system. Once again, her plan calls for higher taxes — it will cost more than $110 billion per year — lower wages, fewer jobs, less choice and worse health care. Clinton appears to have learned little since the public rejected her last attempt to overhaul the U.S. health care system in 1994.”

“The centerpiece of HillaryCare II is an individual mandate, which is a fancy way of saying she would force everyone to purchase health insurance or face penalties. But where the government mandates that you buy insurance, the government defines what “insurance” is. That means the government will be designing your health coverage, with the help of legions of special interests with more political influence than you have.”

“If you are among the 85% of Americans who currently have health insurance — and are happy with it — but it doesn’t meet Clinton’s definition of proper insurance, too bad. You’ll have to shell out for the insurance she says you should have.”

Two Cato analysts detail problems with Hillary’s medical care plan http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8736