Ron Paul had over 4,000 supporters show up in Michigan yesterday!

Have you ever seen this much joy on the face of someone holding a sign for Mitt Romney? How about Newt Gingrich? Even Rick Santorum?

I’m guessing no.

Yesterday Ron Paul shared the following image on Facebook:

The image had the following headline:

 We had an incredible turnout of 4,000 at Michigan State University today! Freedom really is popular!

It turns out that it’s not just Freedom that is popular, it’s Ron Paul! According to Rasmussin Reports:

Congressman Paul (R-TX) has defeated President Barack Obama in a Rasmussen Reports daily presidential tracking poll of general election voters released Monday. This is the first time that Mr. Paul has defeated Mr. Obama nationally. Mr. Paul garnered 43 percent of the votes among general election voters and Mr. Obama pulled 41 percent of the votes.

Did you see thousands of supporters as Mitt Romney rented out a stadium?

Nope, it was empty…

 

Ron Paul’s event looks like standing room only…

 

Super Tuesday is ever closer and Ron Paul supporters seem to be more and more active. Which other Republican candidates can say that?

Lee Wrights to be on the Angel Clark Show tonight!

I enjoyed my last chat with R. Lee Wrights. His southern drawl makes everything he says sound better (but it also helped that I really like what I heard!) so we’re having him back on!

Tonight on the Angel Clark Show on Radio Freedom we have R. Lee Wrights.

R. Lee Wrights is founder and editor of LibertyForAll.net, America’s premier online libertarian newsletter. Lee was born June 8, 1958 in Winston-Salem, N.C. and graduated from West Forsyth High School in Clemmons in 1976.

Lee enlisted in the U.S. Air Force after high school, and served as a medical services technician at Seymour-Johnson AFB, Goldsboro N.C. He was honorably discharged in 1981 with the rank of sergeant.

Lee earned a degree from Willmar College, Willmar, Minn. where he majored in history and journalism. After college, Lee was a contributing editor for the Eagle News, a monthly political news and commentary newspaper in Forsyth County.

In 2001 he began work as an editor of the Free Market Daily, a daily roundup of news and commentary e-mail newsletter distributed by FreeMarket.net.  When FreeMarket.net shut down suddenly in 2002, Lee joined a group that began the Rational Review News Digest in order to insure that the freedom movement would continue to be served by a daily web and email-based news and commentary roundup.

Lee has been an editor of the Rational Review News Digest, the freedom movement’s daily newsletter, ever since. From 2005 to 2008, Lee also worked as editor of the Choice Channel for the International Society for Individual Liberty.

He founded LibertyForAll.net with J. Michael Bragg in 2000. What began as a simple on-line forum for a small band of patriots to exchange ideas has grown into an internationally respected circle of liberty-loving writers and readers. LibertyForAll.net began as, and remains, a respected free speech publication where no one is turned away and no one is censored, true to their motto: “Let Your Voice Be Heard.”

As an editor for these online resources, Lee has focused not only on researching, compiling information, editing and writing articles and news digests for the freedom movement, but also helping libertarians and libertarian organizations make the most efficient use of websites, e-mail lists, e-letters and the other tools of the new media.

Lee has been active in local, state and national Libertarian Party organizations since 2000. He has served as secretary and chair of the Libertarian Party of Forsyth County, N.C. and was vice chair of the state Libertarian Party for seven years. He also served as the LPNC ballot access director for two years.

Lee served as an at-large member of the Libertarian National Committee and was LNC vice chair for two years. During his time on the LNC, Lee also served four years on the platform committee. He is currently a member of the LP judicial committee, elected to that body by the 2010 national convention.

In Texas where he now lives in Burnet, Lee is a past chair of the Burnet County LP and is the Senate District 24 representative to the Texas LP State Executive Committee. In 2008, Lee was campaign manager for the Mary Ruwart for President Committee and in 2010, he managed Mary’s campaign for Texas State Comptroller.

Lee is president of the Foundation for a Free Society, a 501c3 non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting the principles of liberty, personal sovereignty, private property, and free markets in order to create a more free and prosperous society.

When he is not working for liberty, Lee works as the secretary and communications director for Sativa Science, a pharmaceutical start-up company.

 

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Rick Santorum claims to fund raise better than Ron Paul

I was sent the following email by the Rick Santorum campaign yesterday:

 Team Santorum

119,058… that’s the number of donations Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is averaging per month. No one on the Republican side has even come close to Obama’s level… until now!

Today I am proudly announcing our campaign has had over 100,000 donors since February 1!

And while that is exciting we aren’t resting on our laurels. We still need to catch Obama and clearly demonstrate Republicans are rallying around OUR campaign as the conservative alternative to President Obama.

Team Santorum next bashed the competition for the amount of money they spent.

In addition to showing how strong we are this powerful sign of momentum will once and for all erase the myth that only Mitt Romney has the resources needed to defeat Barack Obama.

The truth of the matter is that despite raising $62.7 million since entering the race – Mitt Romney has “broken the bank” spending $55 million of it tearing down his opponents with shameless negative attack ads and published press reports indicate his campaign maybe struggling to raise money.

But you and I are just getting started. And surging past Obama with our February fundraising will show voters across America that we are ready to challenge and defeat Barack Obama in November.

It’s interesting that the Rick Santorum staff considers the number of individual contributions made to a campaign to be more important than the amount of money donated.

*A side note – as of 1/31/2012 Rick Santorum had a total of amount of $6.7 million in donations*

If the number of contributions is more important than the amount donated, does the same hold true to other campaign areas?

Rick Santorum has over 145,000 followers on Twitter. Ron Paul has two Twitter accounts with a combined total of over 380,000 followers. Who do you think is doing better?

Let’s look at Facebook instead. Rick Santorum has almost 160,000 fans on Facebook. Ron Paul has over 880,000 Facebook fans. Who do you think is doing better?

If Rick Santorum really has had over 100,000 donors since February 1 (I’m assuming 2012 although the email doesn’t specify that those donations were all made this year) there’s a chance that the same trend applies. The amount of donations is quite easy to find (as of 1/31/2012 Rick Santorum had 6.7 million total while Ron Paul had 30.9 million) yet the number of donors is more difficult to find a tally of. This writer has yet to find a tally.

So, do you think Rick Santorum has had more donors in the month of February than any other Republican Presidential Candidates?

UPDATE -  ”The Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign announced today that it has raised more than $8 million in the third quarter from more than 100,000 unique donors” – This was 2011

Kevin Gutzman to be on Angel Clark Show tonight!

Tonight on the Angel Clark Show on Radio Freedom we have Kevin Gutzman! Kevin will be talking about his new book – James Madison and the Making of America!

Kevin R. C. Gutzman is the New York Times best-selling author of four books.  Professor of History at Western Connecticut State University, Gutzman holds a bachelor’s degree, a master of public affairs degree, and a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as an MA and a PhD in American history from the University of Virginia.  Happy to be a former attorney, Gutzman devotes his intellectual energy to teaching courses in the Revolutionary and constitutional history of the United States, to writing books and articles in these fields, and to public speaking on related topics.

Dr. Gutzman’s first book was the New York Times best-seller The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, an account of American constitutional history from the pre-Revolutionary days to the present. This work is unique in joining the fruits of the latest scholarship, a very readable presentation, and a distinctly Jeffersonian point of view. His second book, Virginia’s American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776-1840, explores the issue what the Revolutionaries made of the Revolution in Thomas Jefferson’s home state. After that, he co-authored Who Killed the Constitution? The Federal Government vs. American Liberty from World War I to Barack Obama with New York Times best-selling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Gutzman’s new book is James Madison and the Making of America, and he is already at work on At Swords’ Point: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and the Rivalry that Shaped America (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2014 (forthcoming)).

Gutzman has edited new editions of John Taylor of Caroline’s Tyranny Unmasked and New Views of the Constitution of the United States. His essay “Lincoln as Jeffersonian: The Colonization Chimera” appeared in editor Brian Dirck’s collection Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race, and his “Ratification (including the Virginia Ratification Convention and the First Federal Elections)” will appear in editor Stuart Leibiger’s A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe (Blackwell 2012 (forthcoming)).

Gutzman has appeared on well over 200 radio programs, including syndicated shows such as The Michael Medved Show, the Janet Parshall Show, the Curtis Sliwa Show, and multiple programs on Air America, on Sirius Satellite Radio’s Mike Church Show (including as guest host), on America’s Radio News Network, as well as on C-SPAN 2′s “BookTV,” CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” and Fox News’s “The Glenn Beck Program.” He has also been interviewed by reporters from the AP, the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Enquirer, the Washington Post, The Hartford Business Journal, the Houston Chronicle online, and the New York Times.

Kevin Gutzman has served as technical advisor to two documentary CDs and one feature film project. In addition, he was a featured expert in the documentary film “John Marshall: Citizen, Statesman, Jurist.”

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Minister Derrick Grayson to be on Radio Freedom tonight!

Tonight on the Angel Clark Show on Radio Freedom we have Minister Derrick Grayson (TMOT AKA The Minister of Truth)!

Minister Derrick Grayson-CEO/Partner of Zion Rise, LLC, by profession is a veteran Sr. Network Engineer in the Transportation Industry, an Application Developer for the Law Enforcement Profession and a Technical Trainer. By leveraging those skills along with his knowledge of Multimedia Content Production and Web Development, he has created a web presence for himself on various Social Media Networks and self hosted websites via his own data center. He is also Minister and founder of the Electrik Church and much sought after motivational speaker with a fresh word for today’s issues.

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Should it be illegal to eat pets? (Warning: may make you cringe)

Please understand before reading this article that this writer is not advocating the consumption of cute and cuddly kittens for any meal. 

Have you ever heard the expression “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse”?  Did you think the person who said that should be in prison?  Or have you ever been to a Chinese restaurant and heard someone say “I hope the General Tso’s chicken is really chicken”?  What do you think that person was implying?

In California, a man was arrested on February 7, 2012, for eating cats:

Jason Louis Wilmert, 35, has pleaded not guilty to two charges — cruelty to animals and using animals commonly kept as pets or companions as food, KBAK-TV reported , citing court documents.

In the United States, it is common for Americans to look in shock as others eat food we consider unusual.  A prime example is the television show Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.  Andrew Zimmern is a chef and foodie who travels around the world for the Travel Channel eating meals that make many Americans cringe.  A few examples of meals eaten by Andrew Zimmern include lizards, bats, guinea pig, seals, reindeer, camel, and practically every insect you could imagine.  (This writer will add that as someone who owned lizards it was quite difficult to watch Andrew Zimmern eat an iguana).

For many it is nice to watch someone travel around doing things that we will most likely never do.  Many of us forget that in some areas people have to eat foods we would normally never consider due to poverty, overpopulation, or even tradition.

In Cambodia in 2008, beef was $10 a pound – rat meat was $2.50 a pound.  One guess as to which meat you would find on the table of the poor more often during that time.  Garlic-flavored field rat quickly replaced many standard beef dishes.  Some families were even able to secure a better income by catching rats and making them “table-ready”.

In South Korea, dog meat is famous for its medicinal value (for cooling the body and improving virility).  In Japan, raw horse meat is a common finger food in bars while in China Turtle Shell Jelly is made up of exactly what you would imagine.  In Cambodia, tarantulas are said to have a great natural flavor and in Korea fermented baby mice are supposed to cure all kinds of ailments.

It is estimated that around 4 million cats are eaten in China each year and that the number of cats consumed is rising.

Jason Louis Wilmert’s alleged actions disgust this writer but should the eating of animals commonly considered pets be crimes?  My cat eats rabbits…

According to Bakersfield Eyewitness News:

At the district attorney’s office, Yraceburn said the law banning the eating of pets was enacted in 1989 and amended in 1996.

“It makes it against the law to use companion animals, or animals that are commonly kept as pets, for food,” Yraceburn explained. “Plain and simple.”

Eyewitness News checked the law and found it also does not apply to “any livestock, poultry, fish, shellfish, or any other agricultural commodity produced in the state.”

This law also doesn’t apply to the lawful killing of wildlife, or the legal killing of any animals under laws regarding game animals.

According to My Fox DC:

Supervising Deputy District Attorney Michael Yraceburn would not comment on the case, but he confirmed to The Bakersfield Californian that “the individual is being prosecuted for using cats as a food source.”

Yraceburn added that there were no reports of missing pets.

Again, this writer does not advocate the eating of cats (no matter the circumstances).

Now I add kitteh pictures to apologize for writing this to my cat – he’s watching me right now with a look that says he will be destroying my favorite sweater tonight…

Steve Skidmore of Endless Fraud Detection to be on Radio Freedom tonight!

Tonight on the Angel Clark Show on Radio Freedom we have Steve Skidmore of Endless Fraud Detection! Join us as we talk about some of the mortgage fraud issues currently facing Americans!

 

Steve Skidmore is the Chief Communications Officer for Endless Fraud Detection Services, Corp located inAustin,Texas.

For the past 6 years Mr. Skidmore has been researching the legal issues surrounding the mortgage meltdown of the past decade and the impact that it is having on this nation’s economy.

The result of his research led him to a career in the foreclosure defense industry after having met with the founder and CEO of Endless Fraud Detection Services in 2007.

Mr. Skidmore has also had experience as a non-syndicated talk radio broadcaster in the area of legal research. In 2006 he began podcasting the findings of his research on his own show, The Bell Tower. Between the years of 2007 and 2010 Mr. Skidmore began a live broadcast with his co-host Neil Switkowski, the founder and CEO of the company on Endless Fraud Detection Radio. The show was broadcast on 3 different networks and was distributed on AM and FM air waves in over 80 markets across the country.

Mr. Skidmore sacrificed a 30 year career in another unrelated industry so that he, in conjunction with other dedicated individuals, could concentrate their efforts in fighting the legal plunder of this great nation perpetuated by the predatory banking and mortgage lending industry here in the continental US.

In the time of his career in this industry, Mr. Skidmore and Endless Fraud Detection Services has worked tirelessly to bring about remedy to individual homeowners who have been effected by predatory lenders and to bring about positive change to the American economy and a way of life that has served Americans so well throughout its history.

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Mike Ridgeway on Radio Freedom

Tonight on the Angel Clark Show on Radio Freedom we have Mike Ridgeway, a political activist who wants us to draft Judge Napolitano!

Mike Ridgway is a political activist and election reformer, and the founder of Republicans Elect. The goal and purpose of Republicans Elect is to help right-of-center Americans, (Conservatives, Republicans, Libertarians, Constitutionalists, etc.) exert the maximum amount of influence over the processes and the outcomes of the 2012 Republican National Convention and future such conventions.

Concerned that none of the current Republican candidates for president has the full package of qualities that America is looking for, Mike is intent on helping Americans understand that it’s not too late for other candidates to get into the race, nor is a draft movement on the floor of the convention out of the question.  Ridgway believes that one of these two things is has to happen in order to make it possible to limit President Obama to one term in office.

Mike has held numerous positions in the Utah Republican Party*, among them seats on the party’s State Executive and State Central Committees.

In 2008, working with Utah’s Republican National Committeewoman, Nancy Lord, Mike set in motion changes to the Republican National Committee (RNC) rules which have had the effect of greatly reducing the number of state parties which allocate their delegates on a winner-take-all basis and, simultaneously, increasing the number of state parties which allocate their delegates to the national convention on a proportional basis.

Ridgway’s optimism that an altered outcome is possible is based on the new dynamics created by these and other rules changes which have been adopted by the RNC since the last national convention.

*Formerly a member of …

the Utah Republican Party Executive Committee

the Utah Republican Party Central Committee

the Utah Republican Constitution and Bylaws Committee

the Salt Lake County Republican Party Executive Committee

the Salt Lake County Republican Party Central Committee

the Salt Lake County Republican Constitution and Bylaws Committee

Former Republican …

Senate District Chair
Precinct Chair
State Delegate
County Delegate

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Can we save FreedomWatch?

I posted this on my Examiner.com site yesterday. Today, I woke up and saw headlines stating that we may be able to save FreedomWatch. Apparently the response from the public has been noticed.

So don’t stop! Call, email, and sign the petition!

 

Many times I have seen a news article and thought to myself “I can’t wait to see what The Judge has to say about this”. Sadly, now I won’t get to watch his responses to the articles that I find.

Judge Andrew Napolitano’s FreedomWatch has been cancelled.

Fox Business claims:

Judge Napolitano will continue his role on both FOX Business and FOX News, providing key legal insights surrounding the growing intersection between Washington and Wall Street.

As more and more Liberty-Minded shows are taken off the air I urge you to contact Fox Business and let them know how you feel about the cancelling of FreedomWatch.

FOX News Digital

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Email us at:
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Phone: 212-301-3608
Fax: 212-819-0816
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An update from Lew Rockwell’s website states the following:

 Kevin Magee (Fox Executive VP) made the decision to cancel the show. Write him at Kevin.Magee@foxnews.com.

Write Fox CEO Roger Ailes’s assistant, Gena Dellaquila, at Gdellaquila@newscorp.com.

We are being heard. I am told that the Fox higher-ups are “stunned” at the public response.

UPDATE from a friend:

With respect, I suggest that complaints directed to Fox’s advertisers might also have great effect.

 

AntiWar.com says we can still save FreedomWatch – can’t hurt to try! 

 

 

Judge Napolitano said the following on his Facebook Page:

 sad news friends, but don’t worry I’ll still be here defending liberty.

Also, you may wish to sign this petition on Change.org.

My personal note to The Judge:

Judge Andrew Napolitano, I hope that you know how much I loved your show. You gave me hours of show prep. Your views were refreshing, open, and honest.

Does the Government work for you or do you work for the Government?

 

Does your job put you on a “Terror Watch” list?

The concept is simple, it’s the “see something, say something” campaign. We have to make sure that our neighbors are on the up-and-up, so to speak. But while you are watching you neighbors, who is watching you?

Everyone of course!

I want to thank Activist Post for sharing this list. The author (who wishes to remain anonymous) has done the hard work for me!

What follows is a list of 25 professions. Each profession includes a hyperlink to a PDF flyer. This flyer tells you why people in this profession should be watched.

1. Airport Service Providers – Includes on-craft providers: baggage, cleaners, cargo, catering, mechanics, ground crew, food service, cleaners, security, taxi, limos, and shuttles.
2. Beauty/Drug Suppliers – People who have burn marks, missing limbs, travel a long distance, nervous, who are picked up, make illogical requests (even of consumer-grade products).
3. Bulk Fuel Distributors – New customers not from the area, those using cash for large transactions, nervous, large purchases, having a rental vehicle.
4. Construction Sites – People with environmental slogans and/or anti-government slogans, banners or signs that threaten or imply violence.
5. Dive/Boat Shops – New customers reluctant to provide complete personal information, customer who does not have certification, using cash for expensive transactions, extended rentals, appearing uninterested in safety rules, experiencing guarded behavior.
6. Electronics Stores – Person who alters appearance from visit to visit (changing hair color, shaving, etc.), fills a “shopping list” of components while lacking knowledge about their use. Pays cash for large purchases.
7. Farm Supply Stores – New customers not from the area, nervous or impatient, suspicious inquiries regarding equipment specifications, failing to state legitimate use for supplies, rental vehicle, cash for large transactions.
8. Financial Institutions – No evidence for legitimate business activity, those with multiple accounts, banks, parties, and jurisdictions (layering).  Mixed deposits (money orders, third-party checks, and/or payroll into a business account).  Large volume of wire transfers, or repetitive patterns, shell entities, “pass through” points by foreign jurisdictions.
9. General Aviation – Taking flying lessons but appear uninterested, renting under vague reasons for doing so, requests to fly over specific locations without substantiated reason, taking pictures or videos of potentially sensitive locations, actions outside the norm, parking near the perimeter of airport, asking questions without substantiation.
10. General Public – Basically everything exhibited by those with an inquisitive nature: questions, note taking, drawing, annotating maps, inappropriate photos or videos, people in places where they do not belong.
11. Hobby Shops – Interest in remote-controlled aircraft, interest that does not seem genuine, possessing little knowledge of purchase, exhibiting unusual interest, exhibiting no interest, using cash for large transactions.
12. Home Improvement and Large Retail Stores – Large quantity of ammunition, firearms and ammunition out of season, combination of unusual items, interest in night vision and camouflage apparel, purchases of pipe fittings and supplies, rental vehicle, refusal to complete firearms paperwork, using cash for large transactions.
13. Hotels/Motels – There is an excellent discussion of this section in Michael Snyder’s recent article.
14. Internet Cafes – There is an excellent discussion of this section in Michael Snyder’s recent  article.
15. Shopping Malls – Wearing backpacks, discreet use of cameras, note-taking, or video over an extended period, several men arriving together then splitting up, continuing to communicate (dry run?), speaking to security guards, comments regarding radical theology, vague or cryptic warnings, or anti-U.S. sentiments that appear out of place and provocative.
16. Martial Arts/Paintball – Insist on paying with cash, travels long distance to participate, interest in learning offensive moves in a confined space, learning the use of hidden weapons, learning kill and restraint techniques with no occupational need, group training, uttering racist, religious, unusual, anti-US, or vague and cryptic warnings, close combat training, paintball tactics of ambush or kidnapping scenarios, operating a private facility, converting large plots of rural land to conduct these activities.
17. Mass Transportation – Altering one’s appearance, exhibiting burns, bleached body hair, concealed wires, nervous, actions suggesting use of a hidden camera, unusual comments, questioning security/facility personnel via normal means of communication, groups arriving together then splitting up and communicating via cell phone.
18. Military Surplus – Demanding identity privacy, insisting on paying with cash, suspicious comments, bulk purchases.
19. Peroxide Explosives – Unknown customer, individual requesting more information.
20. Recognizing Sleepers – Arrival from countries where violent militant Islamic groups are known to operate, long unexplained absences, fury at the West for reasons ranging from personal problems to global policies of the U.S., conspiracy theories about Westerners (e.g. the CIA arranged for 9/11 to legitimize the invasion of foreign lands), accusing the West of trying to destroy Islam.
21. Rental Cars – Reluctance to provide complete personal information, using cash, unusual questions.
22. Rental Properties – Using cash for large transactions, inquiries about local sites, refusing maintenance or service over extended time, not using property for intended purpose, unusual number of package deliveries, unusual amounts of traffic, discovery of unusual items.
23. Rental Trucks – Reluctance to provide personal information, cash for large transactions, inquiries about renting a truck with a wooden floor, questions about vehicle specifications.
24. Storage Facilities – Failing to provide complete personal information, using cash to pay fees in advance, placing unusual items in storage, disposing of tools, gloves, masks, or clothing, discarding clothes or shoes in new condition, avoiding contact with rental facility personnel, accessing facility an unusual number of times, storing items that emit unusual odors or leak liquids.
25. Tattoo Shops – Demanding identity “privacy,” paying cash, altering appearance (beard, hair style, hair color, style of dress, etc.), making racist or extreme statements, suspicious comments that suggest or appear to endorse violence in support of a cause, repeated returns with multiple individuals requesting identical tattoos, inquiries about unusual methods of tattooing or placement which could allow the concealment of extremist symbols.

These flyers also state an additional note about how you can be a part of the solution:

• Require a valid ID of all new customers.
• Keep records of purchases.
• Talk to customers, ask questions, and listen to and observe their responses.
• Make note of suspicious statements, people and/or vehicles.
• If something seems wrong, notify law enforcement authorities.

The professions on this list could include most of us, or at least most of us interact with one or more people on this list on a regular basis.

Please check out the PDFs associated with these lists and tell me if you think there is fear mongering here. If you are suspicious of your neighbor you may be less likely to feel comfortable around them or have an active community.

Tell me, do you think the people at the local nail salon associate with terrorists?