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Geithner Defends Financial Oversight Reform

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke staked out opposing sides Friday in a turf war over w...

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Why the Big Fade for Bruno?

William Bradley | Posted 08.19.2009 | Home

Why the big fade? It's actually not much of a mystery. Once you see the movie, the only mystery is why it wasn't predicted in the first place.

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Fed Transparency Bill Progresses In House, Struggles In Senate

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Federal Reserve, Fed, Fed Transparency Issues, Federal Reserve Transparency Act, Fed Audit, Ron Paul, Fed Accountability, Home News

Ron Paul's [R, TX-14] bill to audit the Federal Reserve (H.R. 1207) has reached another landmark. Every single House Republican has now co-sponsored i...

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Economists Tell Congress, Obama To Leave The Fed Alone

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fed, Federal Reserve, Congress, Frederic Mishkin, Ron Paul, Politics News

Efforts to shine daylight on the Federal Reserve have failed so far in the Senate. But with Ron Paul's Fed audit bill already well over the number of ...

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Sarah Palin Fundraising Driven By Small Donors

Five Thirty Eight | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Governor Palin, Small Donors, Grassroots, Ron Paul, Political Action Fund Palin, Sarah Palin, Alaska, Fundraising, Sarahpac, Palin, Politics News

Sarah Palin's political action committee -- SarahPAC -- raised $733,000 in the first half of the year and is set to push past $1 million in the wake o...

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The Fed Under Fire (VIDEO)

Harry Hanbury | Posted 08.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Kucinich, Bill Greider, Ron Paul, Barney Frank, Bernanke, Federal Reserve, Obama, Alan Grayson, Grayson, Bank of America, William Greider, Ken Lewis, Fed, Dennis Kucinich, Nancy Pelosi, The Fed, Ben Bernanke, Audit, Corruption, Grider, Business News

As details emerge of how the Fed secretly doled out more than a trillion dollars during the financial crisis, a rare bipartisan movement in Congress demands that the Fed be held accountable.

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Bruno Review

Marshall Fine | Posted 08.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Borat, Marshall Fine, Sacha Baron Cohen, Bruno, Ron Paul, Sacha Baron Cohen Bruno Movie, Sacha Baron Cohen Bruno, Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male, Entertainment News

Bruno is still a movie that will make you laugh so hard you'll gasp for breath. The set-up is almost identical to Borat's, but Baron Cohen still finds ways to shock you into guffaws, over and over.

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How Long Before the Fed's Days Are Numbered?

Michael J. Panzner | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, Bailout, Economy, Ron Paul, Economic Crisis, Barack Obama, Housing Bubble, Business News

The truth is that, aside from those periods when conditions and markets have set out a relatively easy path for central bankers to follow, the Federal Reserve has not lived up to its mission or its promise.

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Barney Frank Introduces Marijuana Legislation

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dangerous Controlled Substance, White House, President Obama, Marijuana, Ron Paul, Barney Frank, Dea, Medical Marijuana, Obama, Drug, President, Drug Enforcement Agency, John Stuart Mill, Schedule I, Schedule, Schedule II, Medical Use, Bill Maher, Committee, House, Frank, Democrat, Henry Waxman, Paul, Democrats, Barack Obama, Marijuana Patient Protection Act, Dana Rohrabacher, Chris Weigant, Controlled Substance Act, Drug Policy, Personal Use, Rohrabacher, Politics News

How many Democrats do we need to elect to Congress before such commonsense laws are passed to rein in some of the excesses of past eras?

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Ron Paul: The World's Most Popular U.S. Congressman (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

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Months after his long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination ended, Rep. Ron Paul has become a hot ticket on the international stage. Unl...

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Ron Paul Is Sole "No" Vote On Iran Resolution

Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ron Paul, Iran Election 2009, Iran Election 2009 Demonstrations, Iran, Libertarian, Iranian Election, Iran-Resolution, Politics News

The House voted 405-1 today for a resolution in support of the Iranian dissidents and condemning the ruling government. And the one man who opposed it...

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Congressman Ron Paul Talks Foreign Policy: New Face, Same Policy

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Congressman Ron Paul: I think Obama is purely political. I think he has backed down on what he said.

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Ron Paul "Liberty Dollars": Counterfeiters Indicted

The Hill | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Currency, Liberty Dollars, North Carolina, Bernard Von NotHaus, Libertarians, Ron Paul, Politics News

A federal grand jury brought indictments Friday against the maker of an obscure currency supported by some libertarians....

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Glenn Beck Sub Holds Sane Discussion On Gitmo With Ron Paul (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

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Well, you have to give credit where credit is due. Glenn Beck takes time off from his eponymous Fox News show, no doubt to nurse the scars he receive...

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The New Evita? Obama's Political Outreach by Lottery

Steve Clemons | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Ron Paul, Campaign Finance, Mitt Romney, Dscc, Facebook, David Plouffe, Barack Obama, Christian Coalition, Web Politics, Bob Menendez, David Axelrod, John Edwards, Joe Rospars, Hillary Clinton, Political Donations, Politics News

Today, I received the note from Senator Bob Menendez promising Obama-time for a select few picked from those who kick in five bucks to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

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Worse Spokespeople Than Bristol Palin

Warren Holstein | Posted 06.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Brady Campaign, Tea Party Protests, Wto, Bristol Palin Abstinence, Swine Flu Pandemic, Somali Pirates, Ron Paul, Swine Flu, George W. Bush, Nadya Suleman, Mexico, Rielle Hunter, Naacp, Dick Cheney, Noam Chomsky, John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, Politics, World Trade Organization, Swine Flu Mexico, Elizabeth Edwards, Sarah Palin, John Edwards, Rick Santelli, Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin Levi Johnston, Tea Party, Bristol Palin, David Duke, Tea Bagging, Bristol Palin Baby, Comedy News

1. George W. Bush for RIF (Reading Is Fundamental). He's is not just the former president, he's a client.

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Bachmann Does Something Serious: Signs Bipartisan Letter Calling For Fed Transparency

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Alan Grayson, Federal Reserve, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Transparency, Politics News

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who generally graces these pages after saying something bonkers, broke with tradition Tuesday and joined a bipartisan...

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Palin and Perry Skirt Secession

Matt Sledge | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas 10th Amendment, Tenth Amendment, Rick Perry Tenth Amendment, Rick Perry 10th Amendment, Rick Perry Secession, Ron Paul, Palin and Secession, Sarah Palin, Secession, Texas Secession, Rick Perry, Politics News

The Tenth Amendment resolutions have been promoted by the Council of Conservative Citizens, the racist successor organization to the White Citizens' Councils of the 1950s.

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Houston, We Have A Solution: Let Texas Secede (VIDEO)

Posted 05.24.2009 | Comedy

At a "tax day tea party" last week, Governor Rick Perry fired up the crowd by yelling "secede." He said that the federal government had abandoned the ...

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Ron Paul Defends Secession: "Very Much American" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas Secession, Paul Video, Paul Secession, Paul Rick Perry, Rick Perry Secession, Ron Paul, Secession, Secede, Politics News

Texas Governor Rick Perry may be on the receiving end of some political mockery for his recent endorsement of his home state's right to secede from th...

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Dog the Pirate Hunter???

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.17.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Politics, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Maersk Alabama, Mercenaries, Somalia Government, Somali Pirates Ransom, Africa, Capt. Richard Phillips, Somali Pirates, Ron Paul, Pirates, Libertarian, Blackwater Investigation, South Africa, Somalia, Comedy News

Avast, ye picaroons! If landlubber Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has his way, good ole American privateers will be set loose on ye wily pillaging Somalian buccaneers and get all War of 1812 on yer booties.

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Santelli: I'm Proud Of The Tea Party Movement I Helped Spawn

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

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The man who delivered the rant that spurred the epidemic of tea party demonstrations around the nation said on Wednesday that he was "pretty proud" of...

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Tax Protest Origins: Ron Paul Supporters Make Case On "Rachel Maddow" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tax Day Tea Party, Video, Rachel Maddow, Ron Paul, Tea Party, Politics News

HuffPost has comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos and video. Who invented this Tea Party stuf...

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Bruno Fools Ron Paul: "By The Time He Started Pulling His Pants Down..." (AUDIO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment

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(SCROLL FOR AUDIO) Sacha Baron Cohen's gay Austrian fashion commentator Bruno did conduct an interview with Ron Paul, the Texas Congressman has confi...

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Hemp Bill Introduced In Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hemp, Ronald Reagan, Marijuana, Drug Enforcement Administration, Hemp Farm, Ron Paul, Hemp Bill, Barney Frank, Medical Marijuana, George Miller, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Hemp Bill Congress, Politics News

A bipartisan group of agitating members of Congress introduced legislation Thursday to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp. Currently eight states...

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