New York Times Pretends Ron Paul (and His Budget Plan) Doesn’t Exist

Apparently, you are supposed to think you only have a choice this coming presidential election between a big-government, status-quo Democrat or a big-government, status-quo Republican and that no matter who you vote for, it will be for naught when it comes to tackling the deficit.…

The NYT ‘Forgets’ Ron Paul Gets More Support from Military Members

What's funny about that is--as the editors of the NYT must surely be aware--that Ron Paul gets more support from members of the military than any other candidate.…

The Media is Incapable of Challenging Ron Paul on REAL Issues

This is the kind of asinine logic (or illogic, rather) that the media is insulting their audience’s intelligence with. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the mainstream media actually reported on the candidate’s actual views and positions on real issues?…

Ron Paul: Propagandist or Prophet?

Ron Paul is “the best-known American propagandist for our enemies”, writes Dorothy Rabinowitz in a recent Wall Street Journal hit piece. To support the charge, she writes that Dr. Paul “assures audiences” that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 “took place only because of U.S. aggression…

You Gotta Love Thomas Friedman

Ah, Thomas Friedman. You gotta love him. Here he is on December 20, 2011: With the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops from Iraq, we’re finally going to get the answer to the core question about that country: Was Iraq the way Iraq was because…

Rich People Don’t Create Jobs? 5 Economic ‘Myths’ Reexamined

A featured article in this month’s issue of Mother Jones is entitled “Rich People Create Jobs! And five other myths that must die for our economy to live.” If rich people don’t create jobs, where do they come from? Hmm… You can see where the…

David Frum: Saving America from Ron Paul

David Frum, the Bush speechwriter who wrote Dubya’s “Axis of Evil” line, doesn’t like Ron Paul for president, and doesn’t think you should, either. He makes a pretty convincing case. Let’s look. Paul is “a boutique candidate, appealing to a very particular fringe within the…

Newt’s Invented History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The Republican presidential candidates are falling all over themselves competing for who can be the most “pro-Israel”, with Newt Gingrich taking the game to a whole new level  last week when he said in an interview with The Jewish Channel that Palestinians were an “invented”…

Paul Krugman vs. Ron Paul and Friedrich Hayek

FPJ — Paul Krugman tried to slam Ron Paul in his most recent column by writing: Back in 1980, just as America was making its political turn to the right, Milton Friedman lent his voice to the change with the famous TV series “Free to…

9/11 and Skeptic Magazine’s ‘Science’ of Controlled Demolitions

FPJ — Chris Mohr at Skeptic magazine writes that “conspiracists are working hard to publicize their claims of scientific validity to the conjecture that the World Trade Center buildings were destroyed through controlled demolition.” He mentions a debate he had with Richard Gage, the founder…