Candidates are often asked why we decided to run. One candidate for the US House of Representatives said that he wants to “fix Michigan”. This is obviously an impossibility from an office in Washington while the state government is still home getting into trouble! But worse, this response fails to recognize that the US Constitution doesn’t permit the federal government to fix Michigan. (That means it’s illegal.) Federal government is constrained to a MUCH smaller role than that, as any Republican should know and insist.

But, the saddest thing about this candidate’s response, I recognized from making hiring decisions: he hasn’t even considered the job description for the seat he wants!

I’ve come up with my new answer for another common question, “what makes you different from your opposition”?

“Our difference is our goals. While others may be smarter, or have more experience, these attributes often  translate into a desire to make decisions for other people. My only goal is to clear the road for us to make our own decisions, ourselves. That’s liberty. And I’ve been fighting for it for 20 years”

I encourage you to investigate before you vote. The Bible tells us to “know those who labor among you”. Any businessman will tell you: You’ve got to REALLY know those who labor FOR you!

By Dr. Ron Paul
March 9, 2010

Last week Congress voted to encourage participation in the 2010 census. I voted “No” on this resolution for the simple, obvious reason that the census – like so many government programs – has grown far beyond what the framers of our Constitution intended. The invasive nature of the current census raises serious questions about how and why government will use the collected information. It also demonstrates how the federal bureaucracy consistently encourages citizens to think of themselves in terms of groups, rather than as individual Americans. The not so subtle implication is that each group, whether ethnic, religious, social, or geographic, should speak up and demand its “fair share” of federal largesse.

Article I, section 2 of the Constitution calls for an enumeration of citizens every ten years, for the purpose of apportioning congressional seats among the various states. In other words, the census should be nothing more than a headcount. It was never intended to serve as a vehicle for gathering personal information on citizens.

But our voracious federal government thrives on collecting information. In fact, to prepare for the 2010 census state employees recorded GPS coordinates for every front door in the United States so they could locate individuals with greater accuracy! Once duly located, individuals are asked detailed questions concerning their name, address, race, home ownership, and whether they periodically spend time in prison or a nursing home – just to name a few examples.

From a constitutional perspective, of course, the answer to each of these questions is: “None of your business.” But the bigger question is – why government is so intent on compiling this information in the first place?

The Census Bureau claims that collected information is not shared with any federal agency; but rather is kept under lock and key for 72 years. It also claims that no information provided to census takers can be used against you by the government.

However, these promises can and have been abused in the past. Census data has been used to locate men who had not registered for the draft. Census data also was used to find Japanese-Americans for internment camps during World War II. Furthermore, the IRS has applied census information to detect alleged tax evaders. Some local governments even have used census data to check for compliance with zoning regulations.

It is not hard to imagine that information compiled by the census could be used against people in the future, despite claims to the contrary and the best intentions of those currently in charge of the Census Bureau. The government can and does change its mind about these things, and people have a right to be skeptical about government promises.

Yet there are consequences for not submitting to the census and its intrusive questions. If the form is not mailed back in time, households will experience the “pleasure” of a visit by a government worker asking the questions in person. If the government still does not get the information it wants, it can issue a fine of up to $5000.

If the federal government really wants to increase compliance with the census, it should abide by the Constitution and limit its inquiry to one simple question: How many people live here?

AP and Getty Images The GOP has signed up woefully few female candidates this year. But CPAC hero Ron Paul is helping to close the gap. Liz Goodwin talks to Paul about his followers now running in their own right.

On Tuesday, a relatively unknown and poorly financed retired nurse named Debra Medina siphoned off almost 19 percent of the vote from heavyweights Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Texas Republican gubernatorial primary. Medina’s surprisingly strong finish is partly attributable to the surge of Tea Party support around the country, a movement Medina is associated with, as well as to general anti-incumbent feeling. But her 18.6 percent may also owe something to the support and political endorsement of CPAC hero and fellow Texan Ron Paul. Paul wrote an open letter soon after Medina—a top campaign volunteer in Paul’s 2008 presidential race—announced her candidacy, calling her a “defender of liberty” and “role model for Texans across our state.”

Congressman Paul, who handily fended off his own primary challenge Tuesday with 80 percent of the vote, is usually associated with a fleet of college-age, testosterone-fueled supporters. But Medina is just one of a trio of female former Paul volunteers who are waging their own campaigns this year, and advancing Paul’s libertarian brand of Republicanism. In addition to Medina, Valerie Meyers in Georgia and Linda Goldthorpe in Michigan are both seeking U.S. House seats.

Asked if his past as an OB-GYN makes him feel more comfortable around women and vice versa, Paul said, “I hope I’m comfortable. I have a lot of empathy, and I assume they feel some of that.”

Paul, a former OB-GYN with a strong anti-abortion stance, says his message attracts women to his campaign. “Historically, people have always commented that women might be more pro-peace than pro-war, and I think my message has excited a lot of women,” he says. (Paul doesn’t support spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.) “I’m pleased that they’re running,” he says of the three candidates. But he was quick to say it’s just a coincidence that he tends to have women in important staff positions. “People have kidded me over the years… I’ve had a lot of key personnel who have been women. It’s always been coincidental.” Asked if his past as an OB-GYN makes him feel more comfortable around women and vice versa, Paul said, “I hope I’m comfortable. I have a lot of empathy, and I assume they feel some of that.”

His contribution to the field is especially notable this year—which has been a dismal one for the recruitment of Republican women candidates, despite the GOP’s bright prospects overall. The National Republican Congressional Committee’s “Young Guns” program, which recruits and trains the prospects the party deems most likely to win, features only four women, in a class of 64. Adding insult to injury, the Republican National Committee’s co-chairman, Jan Larimer, explained the shortfall in a controversial way: “Women sometimes need a little more hand-holding, or they need their friends to help them make a decision.” She said they were working to recruit more women via workshops, but her words seemed unlikely to help the GOP close its gender gap in Congress any time soon. Republicans lag behind Democrats not only in numbers but also percentages of women in Congress; of the 17 women now serving in the U.S. Senate, only four are Republican; of the 73 women in the House, only 17 caucus with the GOP, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers.

For his part, Paul insists he isn’t actively recruiting a fleet of female mini-Rons to run for office. “I don’t personally recruit,” he said. “I encourage everyone to be involved, and when they ask me what to do, I say, ‘That’s your decision.’” Paul became a cult hero during his 2008 campaign for the presidency, when he argued that much of America’s social spending was unconstitutional—a claim that has only gained currency since then, as the Tea Party movement formed in the wake of the federal bank bailout and the Obama administration’s health-care plans. The three Paul devotees may not be as purist as their former boss, but all believe in lowering taxes, abolishing or limiting the Department of Education, auditing or abolishing the Federal Reserve, and opposing the “federal takeover” of health care. The Paul agenda–often ignored by the mainstream right-wing–is on the rise; at CPAC last month, 31 percent of the conservative conference-goers backed him as their presidential candidate for 2012.

Paul was quick to come to the defense of Medina, his former top campaign volunteer who lost yesterday’s primary against Perry and Hutchison. Medina, who ran on the platform of abolishing private property taxes and the notion that Texas should be able to ignore “unconstitutional” federal laws, was surging in the polls before Glenn Beck asked her on his radio show if she was a 9/11 “truther.” She didn’t disavow the possibility that the government had something to do with the attacks, and was quickly denounced by Beck. (“The fastest way back to 4 percent. Holy cow,” Beck said after hanging up with her.)

“I think she was unfairly punished by it for those that read more into it,” Paul said. “He sort of set her up for that. At the same time, the followups, the people who wrote about it and just assumed she committed the greatest crime in the world: I think the reaction was every bit as a big of a problem as the question. Why would a question like that be asked in a governor’s race in Texas?”

Paul’s support may have helped her surge in the polls at first, but Paul, who is also derided as a 9/11 truther, was perhaps not the best mentor when it came to the issue that ultimately tripped her up. Medina has distanced herself from Paul, not directly referring to him as a “mentor” and quickly pointing out her other influences.

“Like Ron Paul, I draw my political ideology from many of the same historic figures and align myself heavily with the U.S. Constitution,” she said in a statement. “I’m a strong supporter of freedom and liberty. Dr. Paul has been my congressman for many years and his political direction has had an influence on me, as it has many others.”

Medina was underfunded in her bid for the governorship, a problem that likely faces two other Paul-ites running in 2010.

Valerie Meyers, who’s running for a Georgia House seat against Democratic incumbent Jim Marshall, describes herself as a Ron Paul Republican, and was a coordinator for her congressional district during Paul’s 2008 presidential bid. Meyers has signed a Club for Growth pledge to repeal any “federal health-care takeover” if passed, and would like to abolish the Department of Education and audit the Federal Reserve, among other Paulian goals. She is also pro-gun rights and strongly against abortion, though she says she differs with Paul on his pro-earmarks stance. “I consider Congressman Paul to be one of the most important figures of the 21st century, both politically and economically,” Meyers told The Daily Beast in an email. She added that she’s only met Paul in person twice, and that he seemed supportive of her candidacy, but “also realistic about the challenges a self-identified ‘Ron Paul Republican’ will face, particularly in a state where he only received 3 percent of the vote in the 2008 presidential primary.” She has not yet filed her campaign-finance report.

Former Paul volunteer Linda Goldthorpe, who writes on her campaign Web site that she thinks Paul is “the only truly constitutional member of Congress,” is running for a House seat in Michigan, and Paul has officially endorsed her. (Goldthorpe did not respond to requests for comment.) Goldthorpe is an attorney and ran for the seat in 2008, as well, but lost. “I look at the country with fear,” she said then. “Look at the national deficit. … We are bombing other countries and our own borders are open. Our rights are being decimated.” Now that the Tea Party has moved closer and closer towards the mainstream, that sentiment seems likely to find a more receptive audience today than it would have two years ago.

Liz Goodwin is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. She has written for the New York Sun, GothamSchools, the Tico Times, and Fodor’s Travel Guides.

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I did a bad thing by not showing up for the meet and greet scheduled for last week.  It was imperative that I be home as soon as possible, and I went.   I’m sorry that some of you didn’t even hear that I’d called to cancel.

I can’t ask you to forgive me, and certainly not for your votes.   But, some things are more important than votes.

I’m very sorry.

Linda Goldthorpe

Thomas Jefferson came back from the grave to deliver us this important message.  Strangely enough his bizarre resurrection took place in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan on 9/12/2009.  Spread this video!

Clubs are formed by people with the same principles. But, these principles soon take a back-seat to the needs of the club. Be it a religious or political organization, contributions of time or property are soon used to promote the club. Before long, monetary donations are spent to print letters asking for more money! Things settle down, people settle in, and only one person remains unsettled: the true believer.

True believers are unwelcome in clubs. They mess with the system. They don’t obey. They question. They torment. They want truth!

Truth seekers are always climbing unexplored mountains and encountering dangerous beasts. Their lives are unusual and offensive to the clubs. A truth-seeker of even the most gentle temperament, is deemed dangerous and revolutionary. Nowadays, that may be true. Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

I say, with Eric Cadeau of the Northern Michigan Liberty Alliance,  (you do know that we have modern-day Thomas Jeffersons and Patrick Henrys in our midst, don’t you?)  “It is my right to be uncommon.”  I embrace that right. And I demand it. Although there is strength in numbers, the current revolution is not about political parties, or about tea-party groups. It is about individuals. It is about individual liberty, and individual responsibility. Didn’t Christ and the Republican party endorse those things, long ago?

They say you can tell a pioneer by the arrows in his back. But, be of good cheer. I say with assurance to every truth-seeker, of any creed, God has your back.

Today there is an online Money Bomb to support Liberty Slate 2010 candidates for Congress. Liberty Slate is a grassroots effort to help garner support for constitutionalist and small government congressional candidates for the 2010 elections.

Please consider giving $25, $50, $100, or your most generous donation today to help further the cause of liberty.

Linda Goldthorpe is a Liberty Slate 2010 endorsed candidate. Her limited government, pro-freedom stances and her nearly 20 years experience as a conservative activist has earned her the right to be called a true “Liberty Candidate”.

Please considering giving a donation to the Goldthorpe for Congress Campaign and help make this day a day to remember.

Today marks the one year anniversary of the passage of the Obama/Pelosi “stimulus” package, or the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” which cost the American taxpayer, nearly $800 billion.

On this anniversary of atrocious government spending, let us show the government what we really think of their “bailouts” by giving a generous donation to a true conservative candidate!

In Liberty,
The Linda Goldthorpe for Congress Campaign Team

CONFESSIONS OF A CONSPIRACY THEORY JUNKIE

Carole “CJ” Williams
February 16, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

Conspiracy theory: “an effort to explain some event or practice by reference to the machinations of powerful people, who have also managed to conceal their role.” – Regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein

After considering the twists and turns along the road taken, and knowing full well how it is I’ve come to be the sort of person I am now that I’ve reached the ‘golden years’, I feel no shame in admitting that I’ve become a conspiracy theory junkie. In fact, so shameless am I in my guilt, that I’ll beat my chest like Tarzan and shout my confession to the world.

“I AM A CONSPIRACY THEORY JUNKIE!!!”

Worse, I’ve no remorse over the fact that my fingers have typed the truth of many conspiracies during the past several years, verifying that my theories and some others’ theories, which I shared with readers of my newspaper column, have proved to be reality, not merely theory.

You see, with the changing of the guard in the District of Criminals, the treachery of those who’ve insidiously contrived to destroy my Sovereign State of Michigan, my Constitutional Republic, the future of my children and grandchildren, and my independence has become more transparent. Actually, the move from covert to overt malfeasance is about the only area in which many of my local, state, and federal government officials have become transparent.

Conspiracy theorists have been around for quite some time. It’s only of late – with the phenomenal growth of the TEA Party movement – that the label has received such thundering derision, particularly from the gaggle of far left-leaning, Mao-hugging ‘Progressives’, who appear to have taken over the Democratic Party at all levels.

Why the derision? The answer is simple. The TEA Partiers have become a ‘tempest in a teapot’; they’re upsetting the conspiring Progressives’ apple cart and the Progressives don’t much like it. So, to discredit the TEA Partiers and tarnish their image, Progressives engage in name-calling.

As far as I’m concerned, the childhood chant, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me”, holds as true today as it did when I was a kid many long years ago. So there – neener, neener, neener!!!

For me, personally, conspiracy theories have provided a jumping off place to ferret out truth. But then, unlike far-left and far-right extremists who question nothing and appear to enjoy riling up the masses for their own glory and/or profit, I generally question everything. It’s a precautionary principle I’ve gradually adopted over the years from having been too naïve, too gullible, and too trusting.

I finally threw away my rose colored glasses in July of 2003 when a direct and public assault was made on my integrity. Now I even look at stray, apparently homeless cats with a skeptical eye – especially the two-legged variety that maliciously attempt to prey on my sympathetic generosity.

In a sense, the unwarranted assault served a good purpose. It compelled me to discover why I posed such a threat to one man that he would attempt to destroy my value as a human being in the eyes of others. It took me three months to unravel the mystery, but when I stumbled upon the Wildlands Project and the land-grab conspiracy that led to Governor Granholm’s ‘U.P. Big Deal’, I knew I’d hit pay dirt.

With further research, I learned that my antagonist was a bit player in that conspiracy – he was greedily acting to preserve his tiny slice of the pie. However, I bet he now rues stabbing me in the back because, thanks to his brutal attack, I ended up writing a weekly column that was published in two Michigan papers for five-years running.

Through that column, I exposed the duplicity of many treasonous individuals and groups who have played starring roles in an even bigger conspiracy, namely the U.S. Constitution shredding, United Nations’ Agenda 21/Sustainable Development Program.

If you’re not familiar with Agenda 21, please know that the UN’s Wildlands Project is an integral part of the Agenda. It’s designed to turn at least half of America back into wilderness where common people won’t be allowed to go. The targeted areas, generally UN Biospheres and ‘buffering’ bioreserves, seem to be those rich with above-and-below ground natural resources. The entire Upper Peninsula of Michigan is one such targeted area.

The eco-environmental army is implementing the Wildlands Project, steadily working to divest the American people of their public and private property rights. That army is being aided and abetted by federal and state lawmakers, who not only propose and pass legislation amenable to the goals of our persecutors, but also come up with taxpayer money to support those goals.

In a nutshell, Agenda 21, which is a 40-chaptered by-product of the 1992 UN Earth Summit, is a blueprint to be followed by ‘progressives’ and their cohorts at all levels of government who are working to redistribute wealth.

The proof that my congressman, Bart Stupak, has crawled into bed with the socialists who are implementing Agenda 21 lies in his co-sponsorship of Nancy Pelosi’s March 29, 1993 legislation, HJ RES 166. The bill was a copycat of her 1992 H.CON.RES. 353 legislation, which former Representatives Barney Frank, Leon Panetta and 61 others co-sponsored, including Rep. Charles Rangel.

HJ RES 166 was designed to force the American people to help Pelosi and her Democrat/RINO cronies save the planet while some politicians filled their pockets through investments in alternative energy industries and availed themselves of campaign contributions from lobbyists.

The introductory language of Pelosi’s HJ RES 166 reads: “Providing for the United States to assume a strong leadership role in implementing the decisions made at the Earth Summit by developing a national strategy to implement Agenda 21 and other Earth Summit agreements through domestic policy and foreign policy, by cooperating with all countries to identify and initiate further agreements to protect the global environment, and by supporting and participating in the high-level United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development.”

Though the Senate Foreign Relations Committee didn’t act upon HJ RES 166, it ‘s being implemented anyway through complimentary legislation, bureaucratic regulations, and various UN treaties, as well as through executive orders signed by presidents, past and present.

One only need read HJ RES 166, the Treaties, and Executive Orders to understand how we’ve come to this place in time in America; why our economy is crumbling and why we’re finding it harder and harder to achieve the American Dream of a decent paying job, home ownership, three-square meals on the table and enough jingle in our pockets for a few of the nicer things in life after we’ve paid our household bills and taxes.

Among other passages contained in HJ RES 166 are these items: “The President and Congress should encourage and facilitate, at all levels of community and sectors of society, appropriate means for adopting individual Agenda 21 plans of action, including the establishment of local, county, State, business, and other boards and commissions for achieving sustainable development. Each member of congress should help initiate this process within their States or districts.”

“In order to contribute to a transition to an environmentally sustainable US economy, the research and policy initiatives urged in Agenda 21 should be pursued, including research on environmentally sustainable consumption patterns, identification of a strategy to eliminate or reduce subsidies for unsustainable natural resource exploitation, and move toward pricing policies that more truly reflect environmental costs.”

“The Congress should adopt a system to reallocate an appropriate amount of savings from reduced defense spending in order to achieve the goals of Agenda 21 for global environmental protection and sustainable development over the next decade.”

Of the sixty-seven representatives who cosponsored Pelosi’s Agenda 21 legislation in 1993, twenty-four are still in office and, like Stupak, may be seeking reelection. The list includes:

Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Howard Berman (D-CA), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Pete DeFazio (D-OR), Eni F. H. Faleomavaega (D-AS), Bob Filner (D-CA), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Edward Markey (D-MA), Jim McDermott (D-WA), George Miller (D-CA), Jim Moran (D-VA), Jerold Nadler (D-NY), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), John Olver (D-MA), Collin Peterson (D-MN), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Bobby Rush (D-IL), Bernard Sanders (I-VT, currently a senator), Charles Schumer (D-NY), Bart Stupak (D-MI), Edolphus Towns (D-NY), and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA).

Additionally, Constance Morella, a former Republican representative from Maryland, became Permanent Representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD).

The OECD was formed in France in 1961. On its Website, OECD describes itself as an “organisation” that “provides a setting where governments compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and coordinate domestic and international policies.”

The OECD’s Washington Center Website “About” link on its Home Page will take inquisitive minds to another page where manipulative OECD “Decisions, Recommendations and Other Instruments of Force” can be viewed.

Although the two weekly papers I wrote for have now folded (due to Michigan’s tanked economy), I’m again on staff, exposing conspiracies through another local paper. The area ‘progressives’ know this, but, like vampires, they prefer to do their dirty deeds in the dark. They’d prefer to shut down that publication and avoid the light that truth brings to all who care to know it.

Oh, I almost forgot. Hopefully, I’ll be asked to speak at some of our local TEA Parties again next summer. Maybe I’ll see you there and we can enjoy a glass of iced tea together while talking about the truth of some conspiracy theories.

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C. J. (Carole) Williams lives in Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula. She writes a weekly newspaper column, “On Target with C. J. Williams”, for Ontonagon’s Lake Superior Voice (www.thelakesuperiorvoice.com) and is also a guest writer for the Women Hunters Club (www.womenhunters.com), an online organization dedicated to the encouragement, education, and promotion of women in the hunting traditions.

For the past several years, C. J. has been monitoring the eco-environmental movement and the UN’s Agenda 21 in her state, as well as America, which she strongly believes has done more to destroy our nation than to make it as strong and prosperous as it could and should be.

E-Mail: uppatriots@yahoo.com