By Sean Michael Kerner
December 29, 2007
In 1949, George Orwell published his masterpiece novel 1984. Even if they haven’t read it, most people remember the book’s key takeaway: Big Brother is watching.
Fast forward to 2008 and Big Brother really is watching. The vehicle that makes Big Brother’s omniscience possible is the network.

Kurt Nimmo
As an omen of things to come, in March the National Immigration Institute of Mexico will demand Central Americans workers and visitors carry ID cards with electronic chips. The ID cards “will record every arrival and departure of so-called temporary workers and visitors, mostly from Guatemala,” reports KGBT 4 out of Harlingen, Texas. “Officials […]

By Ray McGovern
December 29, 2007.
Americans today are seeing the same sheepish submissiveness that characterized Germany after the burning of the Reichstag.
“There are few things as odd as the calm, superior indifference with which I and those like me watched the beginnings of the Nazi revolution in Germany, as if from a box at the […]

Nicholas Jackson
December 29, 2007
Sodomy, n. A crime against nature. –American Dictionary of the English language, Noah Webster 1828.
Words mean something. Noah Webster knew that well. Just hearing the word sodomy sounds harsh. This is evidence of how far we have slid.

Derry Brownfield
H.R. 2421, “Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007” is due to be marked up for a vote in the US House sometime this fall. According to the bill, water is a unique and precious resource that is necessary to sustain human life and the life of animals and plants. This bill will protect intrastate […]

By Tiberge
An analysis from Christian Lambert, a former French ambassador, writing at Les 4 Vérités, predicts a terrible fate for Europe. He titles his essay, “The Inexorable Suicide of Europe.”
The Brussels administration admits officially that each year some 550,000 immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and China, plus South America, enter the European Union. […]

by Michael Cutler
December 30, 2007
An excellent article appeared in Wednesday’s edition of the Washington Times and merits your consideration, not only in terms of evaluating Presidential Candidate Huckabee, but to also understand the concerns I have about most politicians and the way that all too many of them have become skilled at the craft of […]

Mike Huckabee recently named Richard Haas (the President of the CFR) as his advisor on foreign policy. CNN’s WOLF BLITZER asked “Who are your principal foreign policy advisers, Governor?” Mike Huckabee responded: “Well, I have a number of people from whom I get policy. I’m talking to Frank Gaffney, I talk to Richard Haas”

By Bruce Fein
The Pope had his Index of Forbidden Books. Japan had its Thought Police against subversive or dangerous ideologies. And the United States Congress and President Bush have learned nothing from those examples.
Congress is perched to enact the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 20007 (Act),” probably the greatest assault on free […]

by Murray N. Rothbard
This article originally appeared in the April 1954 issue of Faith and Freedom.
A sign of our time is the split-personality of the conservatives. Many to the right of center are off on a schizophrenic pursuit of both liberty and collectivism.

by Alan Stang
I had thought that by now we knew everything about Mike Huckabee: the love of more and higher taxes, the betrayal of home schooling, the parole of the man who then raped and killed another woman, the attempt to bring as many illegal aliens to Arkansas as possible, et cetera and so on. […]

by Burton S. Blumert
When the NY Times called Ron Paul a “Nazi,” in a smear typical of the newspaper that printed press releases for Josef Stalin, LRC blew the whistle, and mobilizing the Ron Paul movement, forced the newspaper to retract. Has that ever happened before? When Tim Russert on Meet the Press slammed Ron […]

by Michael Scheuer
Christmas morning broke clear and cold here in Virginia and before my children woke I got to thinking about the opportunities that would lost by anyone who decided not to vote for Dr. Ron Paul in the primaries. Perhaps it was because I got chilled and cranky as I walked down to the […]

By: Justin Raimondo
Saturday, December 29, 2007
What characterizes the political season so far is what we might call frontrunner collapse. The candidates we were all told were the nearly inevitable winners – Hillary Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani – are now hanging on for dear life. Obama is currently pulling ahead of Clinton in Iowa, and the […]

by Karen Kwiatkowski
December 29, 2007
Lately, neither right nor left has been talking much about our many murderous machinations in the Middle East. Perhaps it is the holiday season, or a nod to the establishment-picked presidential candidates who offer more of the same tired foreign policy entanglements. Maybe the recent NIE on Iran has caused visions […]

By Jim R. Schwiesow
December 28, 2007
“Today, a New World Order is struggling to be born a world quite different from the one we have known. A world in which the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle” –George H.W. Bush
“We will have a world government whether you like it or not. […]

December 28, 2007
The housing market plunged deeper into despair last month, with sales of new homes plummeting to their lowest level in more than 12 years.
The slump worsened even more than most analysts expected, heightening fears that the country might be thrust into a recession.

Nick Langewis and David Edwards
Sunday December 23, 2007
“It reminds me of what Sinclair Lewis once said, he says: ‘When fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.’”
Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) argues to Meet the Press’ Tim Russert that in the statement above, he is not calling presidential contender […]

Few Americans understand that all government action is inherently coercive. If nothing else, government action requires taxes. If taxes were freely paid, they wouldn’t be called taxes, they’d be called donations. If we intend to use the word freedom in an honest way, we should have the simple integrity to give it real meaning: Freedom […]

By Craig von Buseck
CBN.com Ministries Director
CBN.com - An ancient merchant had three lovely daughters. But due to a tragic turn of events, he had lost all hope that his daughters would be able to marry and live a happy life. It was the third century, and this businessman had lost his fortune when pirates […]

Paul-haters on the Right and the Left unite in a common cause
by Justin Raimondo
December 24, 2007
The Ron Paul campaign has generated a lot of excitement, especially among young people. It has made political history by raising more money in a single day than any other presidential campaign, ever. It has inspired thousands […]

by Alan Stang
December 24, 2007
Warning! As you know, I always give you my best jokes in these pieces. This one will contain no humor. Will the conspiracy for world government assassinate Dr. Paul? That is the stark question now before us. Since the Paul campaign started to take off, I have been hearing agonized comments […]

by Lew Rockwell
December 23, 2007
This was an historic day. One man stood against a powerful TV newsman, his show and all its researchers, and triumphed. Watch it and here’s the transcript.
Tim Russert is known as an hard questioner, by establishment standards, but even when he is actually being tough—as with Rudy Giuliani—the guest […]

by C.J. Maloney
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans only as members of groups and never as individuals. ~ Ron Paul
Politics do make for strange bedfellows, and every candidate for national office will inevitably attract a rather lunatic element from the fringes as an erstwhile, if […]

William N. Grigg
Nature played a vicious trick on Neil Cavuto by making him a near clone of Eddie Munster. Being victimized by a cruel caprice of that kind should be sufficient hardship for one lifetime. But Mr. Cavuto has also had to contend with both cancer and multiple sclerosis, beating the former and […]

Slowing economy puts new store sites on ice across region
Target Corp., Home Depot Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other big-box retailers — buffeted by sagging sales and the housing slump — are pulling the plug on new-store plans in and around Chicago.
The pullback is another sign of the darkening outlook for 2008, as retailers turn […]

By Sarah Thomsen
If you’re ticketed by Green Bay police, you’ll get more than a fine. You’ll get fingerprinted, too. It’s a new way police are cracking down on crime.
If you’re caught speeding or playing your music too loud, or other crimes for which you might receive a citation, Green Bay police officers will ask for […]

The clandestine branch has a fierce instinct for protecting the agency’s interests and a reputation for undermining directors perceived as hostile.
By Greg Miller
December 24, 2007
WASHINGTON — Shortly after he arrived as CIA director in 2004, Porter J. Goss met with the agency’s top spies and general counsel to discuss a range of issues, including […]

Sarah Baxter
December 23, 2007
THE CIA chief who ordered the destruction of secret videotapes recording the harsh interrogation of two top Al-Qaeda suspects has indicated he may seek immunity from prosecution in exchange for testifying before the House intelligence committee.

by True American
Sunday, December 23, 2007
The mainstream media’s precious polls have become entirely irrelevant in the race for the Republican nomination.
Why?
Ron Paul.
The following are the reasons why the polls that usually show Ron Paul in the single digits are going to be proven to be worthless when the Republican primary results starting coming in:

Russert comes out swinging but gets knocked out before the final bell.
by Big Louie
Sunday, December 23, 2007
It was the absolutely most aggressive interview I have ever seen by Russert on “Meet the Press” He dredged up every slimy thing he could find to attack Dr. Paul. Yet, Dr. Paul was able to rebut EVERY SINGLE […]

As central banks continue to splash their cash over the system, so far to little effect, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard argues things are rapidly spiralling out of their control
23/12/2007
Twenty billion dollars here, $20bn there, and a lush half-trillion from the European Central Bank at give-away rates for Christmas. Buckets of liquidity are being splashed over […]

This video is for the people who say Ron Paul doesn’t stand a chance in the upcoming primaries.

Larry Fester
Published 12/22/2007
Analysis/Opinion-Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman, Ron Paul, can win the presidency. Contrary to the pundits and media propaganda, Ron Paul is best positioned to win the GOP nomination.
Ron Paul has more money than his opponents and is just starting to gain momentum. As a result of massive popular support Paul’s […]

(Ya’ll BETTER Pay Attention To This One…2008…It Could Be A Bumpy Ride…Ed)
By Dana Ford
ONTARIO, California (Reuters) - Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits “tent city,” a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern […]

by Keith Preston
Strictly speaking, the term “counterculture” refers to any cultural undercurrent that holds to a set of values different from those of the mainstream society. Of course, most Americans think of “counterculturalists” in terms of the various subcultures that emerged from the social upheavals of the 1960s and 70s or whose existence emanates from […]

By: Alan Stang
Sunday, December 23, 2007
I am receiving heartfelt messages from some fine folks who say they were thinking of voting for Ron Paul, but now they will not because they have discovered one or another Paul position they do not share. For just one instance, broadcaster Tucker Carlson is supposed to be a Dr. […]

Saturday, December 22, 2007
The Ron Paul blimp has likely generated $500,000 in media publicity, according to sources close to the project, since its launch and is now heading South to add to that total. The blimp was launched to support the candidacy of limited government presidential hopeful Ron Paul (R-Tex).

By Jim Roberts
Forget the money bombs and all the fundraising for now, this is the big weekend for Ron Paul and it has nothing to do with cash or campaign fundraising efforts. He finally has broken through and will appear on the mainstream number one Sunday morning talk show ‘Meet the Press’ with host […]

‘Veterans Disarmament Act on way to president’
December 23, 2007
Congress has given gun owners in America a Christmas gift: a blade in the back, according to officials with Gun Owners of America.
The organization said the plan supported by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and others, and known as the Veterans Disarmament Act by opponents, is […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Illegal immigrants in Arizona, frustrated with a flagging economy and tough new legislation cracking down on their employers, are returning to their home countries or trying their luck in other states.
For months, immigrants have taken a wait-and-see attitude toward the state’s new employer-sanctions law, which takes effect Jan. 1. The voter-approved legislation […]

by Stephen Lendman
Year end is a good time to look back and reflect on what’s ahead. If past is prologue, however, the outlook isn’t good, and nothing on the horizon suggests otherwise. Voters last November wanted change but got betrayal from the bipartisan criminal class in Washington. Their attitude shows in an October Reuters/Zogby (RZ) […]

Almost every move you make is being watched - and privacy is fast becoming obsolete, writes Gerard Wright.
December 21, 2007
If Hollywood and its movies are America thinking aloud, then a very interesting thought bubble has just appeared over the map of the United States.

In the era of computer-controlled surveillance, your every move could be captured by cameras, whether you’re shopping in the grocery store or driving on the freeway. Proponents say it will keep us safe, but at what cost?
By James Vlahos
Published in the January 2008 issue.

By TIM WEINER
December 23, 2007
A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.

Kurt Nimmo
December 21, 2007
It’s not enough they vacuum up your phone calls and emails, they know your medical history and financial transactions, now they want to look through your walls, right into the most private aspects of your life conducted behind closed doors.

Chatrooms Will Be Forced To Undergo “Professional Assessment” To Continue Operating
Will Fight Against Child Pornography Prove To Be The Trojan Horse For Far-Reaching Online Censorship?
By Darryl Mason
A new wave of “restrictions” on mobile phone content, websites, chatrooms and message boards will be introduced in Australia by late January, 2008.

PLYMOUTH, N.H., Dec. 21, 2007
(CBS) His progress has been as gradual as a tortoise on ice, but Ron Paul can no longer be dismissed as the favorite of the fringe, reports CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds.
Unlike other candidates consigned to the periphery, Paul has refused to go away. He is now in a tie […]

by Spirit of ‘73
We have entered a new era of politics and it is time to discard the old ways of analysis. New technologies have changed how we live and how we get our information. Politics is fundamentally the same, as it always will be, but elections have undergone some important changes and if […]

by John M. Regan, Jr.
People are still talking about the subprime thing. You can go to a bar like I did the other night, meet some guy for the first time, and maybe he’s never heard of Ron Paul but he has heard about the “subprime” thing. Which is strange, if you ask me: you […]