Paul Campaign raises 1 Million dollars in 6 days!

The Ron Paul campaign held an internet fund drive to raise $500,000 in one week, to finish up the fund-raising quarter that ends September 30th.

In only a few days, that goal was reached, so the goal was raised to 1 Million, which was reached in 6 days since the original fund drive.

Now, 1 million dollars in 6 days may not sound like much. Just a week or two ago Oprah held a fund raiser for Barack Obama in which his campaigned earned 3 million dollars in just one day.
The news in this story is that the Ron Paul campaign is a genuine grass roots campaign that doesn't rely on gigantic donations from celebrities and big business. The hyper-link in 'big business' is extremely useful and I suggest you check it out.

Last quarter, the Ron Paul campaign ended up with more cash on hand than Senator John McCain. Yet McCain is considered a top-tier candidate and Paul is not?

Even more interesting, Ron Paul received more money from active - duty military than any other candidate.

The point here is that the Ron Paul campaign is doing well and deserves some more coverage than it is receiving from the main stream media.

Should Conservatives be allowed to vote?

A new study out of New York University shows that the brains of Liberals and Conservatives work differently.

The study showed that liberals are more able to adapt to a change in routine where change is needed.

Another study that came out of University of California - Berkeley 4 years earlier showed that went through 50 years of literature and documents showed that Conservatives tend to live in fear and aggression, as well as have tolerance to inequality.

Historically Conservatives have always resisted change. In recent history Conservatives have opposed ending slavery, giving black people the right to vote, giving women the right to vote, ending segregation, and just recently have wanted a constitutional ban on gay marriage.

Despite conservatives being irrational, they have always felt that their opinions should matter and have had a powerful influence on the United States, as well as around the world. Anyone over the age of 18, unless they are a convicted felon, is allowed to vote.

The new study that shows that conservatives are mentally handicapped may give reason to not allow conservatives to vote.

One has to be 18 to vote because children are unable to make reasonable decisions. Conservatives, studies prove, are also unable to make reasonable decisions. Thus, should conservatives be allowed to vote even though they can not make a reasonable decision?

Ron Paul Wins Fox News Text Vote

As of 11:21 PM, Ron Paul is winning Fox News' text-vote with 33% of the vote.

Will update as events unfold.

11:31 - Paul still in first with 33%. Alan Colmes says that the "Paulites just keep redialing and redialing."

Why is it that whenever Ron Paul does well in polls his supporters are accused of spamming or some how rigging the vote?

Paul stands out in crowd of Republicans saying more of the same

Republicans clashed with Ron Paul over the issue of Iraq in tonight's debate.

Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate for President who says that American troops should leave Iraq as soon as possible.

Paul said that U.S. military presence in Iraq antagonizing the people in the region and U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia was part of the reason for 9/11.

Paul was then asked "Are we supposed to take our orders then from Al Qaeda?"

"No!" Paul said "we take our orders from the constitution," noting that the Iraq War was illegal in both American and International Law.

Later Paul and Mike Huckabee clashed over what should be done about Iraq.

Paul said that it was the Neo Conservatives that lead the U.S. into the war. Huckabee said that "we are one nation under god" and that we should stay united.

Paul said that when elected representatives make a mistake it is the obligation of the American people to hold their elected leaders accountable and vote them out of office if they make a mistake.

Republican Debate this Wednesday

Republican Presidential hopefuls will debate in New Hampshire Wednesday, September 5th. The debate will air on Fox News.

Fred Thompson will not be attending the debate, but will instead air his first campaign ad.

The Debate will air at 9 PM Eastern on the Fox News Channel.

Winthrop Labors on Labor Day

Winthrop University in Rock Hill will be in session on Labor Day for seemingly unknown reasons.

Winthrop, the premier education facility in York County, the last county in South Carolina to recognize Martin Luther King Day despite having no room for racism, has had the policy to labor on Labor Day since the beginning of time.

The University of South Carolina, as well as local high schools, do not have classes on Labor Day.

“I’ve gotten used to it”, Dr. Laurence Timbs, Associate Professor of Mass Communication said.

Timbs, who has nothing better to do than teach at Winthrop or pet his Dog Roadie, unquestioningly see’s the policy as part of his job. When asked whether he would prefer to party all night Sunday before Monday instead of go to bed early to get up to work, he said that “At my age, you don’t want excitement.”

And while 59 year old college professors may prefer the simple life of working until the bitter end, young people like Jared Philips prefer the non stop party all night long idea.

“Going to school on Labor Day is gay”, he said. “I want to stay up late and play computer games but can’t because I have to get up early for class. What a joke. Ahhggg!”

Jared’s sentiment was shared by many of the students at Winthrop, minus perhaps the part about computer games, which can be exchanged for drinking heavily, more than likely.

Timbs, attempting to shift the reasons for why he is teaching on Labor Day away from his complacency with the policy (similar to the way the Germans looked the other way during the Holocaust) to the students.

“Maybe student activism could lead to a change in the policy,” he said.

Ron Paul places third in Texas Straw Poll

The official results are as follows:

41.1% Duncan Hunter (534 votes)
20.5% Fred Thompson (266 votes)
16.7% Ron Paul (217 votes)
6.4% Mike Huckabee (83 votes)
6% Rudy Giuliani (78 votes)
4.7% Mitt Romney (61 votes)
.46% Sam Brownback (6 votes)
.62% John McCain (8 votes)
.46% Tom Tancredo (6 votes)
2.2% Ray McKinney (28 votes)
.23% Hugh Cort (3 votes)
.77% John Cox (10 votes)


Congressman Paul has placed well in straw polls all over the nation, despite little media attention and polling at 3% in national polls.