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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: webster"><span style="color: #000080">The blog </span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: webster"><a href="http://judgeright.vox.com/"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Judge Right over at Vox</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: webster"><span style="color: #000080"> has an </span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: webster"><a href="http://judgeright.vox.com/library/post/why-judges-matter.html?_c=esv1"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">awesome post as to why Americans should vote Republican</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: webster"><span style="color: #000080"> or if you are a dyed in the wool Dem (have mercy on your soul), a good reason NOT to vote for the extreme Left of the Democratic Party. It is the extreme Left that now controls the Democratic Party, it is a far cry from the balanced Democratic Party of deceased </span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: webster"><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article597039.ece"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Senator Scoop Jackson</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: webster"><span style="color: #000080"> (Scoop as it </span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: webster"><a href="http://neoneocon.com/2008/04/25/mccain-scoop-jackson-republican/"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">relates to McCain</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: webster"><span style="color: #000080">) that represent the centrist to slanted right of the Dems for a quarter century.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: webster"><span style="color: #000080">Voting Conservative or Republican means you understand the implications as to why Islamism (especially in its terrorist form) must be defeated AND you understand that the U.S. Judicial System dominated by Leftist activist judges are legislating law from the bench in most cases mystically fabricating judgments and precedents from Constitutional Law that do not exist.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: webster"><span style="color: #000080">Read how <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Judge Right</em></strong> demonstrates how the California Supreme Court has over turned the will of the people by a mere 4 to 3 vote: </span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: webster"><a href="http://judgeright.vox.com/library/post/why-judges-matter.html?_c=esv1"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">READ IT!</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: webster"></span></p>
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        <title>Rice Courting VP Nomination</title>   
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Alba Matter&#39;"><span style="color: #000080">I first heard on FOX News yesterday that Condi Rice may be looking to coax a VP nomination out of McCain. Then I ran into an April 6 post of an ABC blog called </span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Alba Matter&#39;"><a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Political Radar</span></a></span></em></strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Alba Matter&#39;"><span style="color: #000080"> which reports Secretary Rice is </span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Alba Matter&#39;"><a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/dan-senor-condo.html"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">ACTIVELY seeking the Republican nomination for Vice President</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Alba Matter&#39;"><span style="color: #000080">.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Alba Matter&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">The Condi Rice that was GW’s National Security Advisor was a person I saw with admiral skill and eloquence. I toyed with the concept of a Black Female Republican Presidential nomination of that Condi Rice. I even thought of it more when her National Security Advisor skills found her moving upward to Secretary of State.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Alba Matter&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">Then there is the Secretary of State Condi Rice. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Alba Matter&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">Since becoming head of the State Department Rice seems to have been overwhelmed by State Department bureaucrats that fought the Bush Doctrine from its inception as a concept to promote America’s National Interests.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Alba Matter&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">If it was not for a strong Israel lobby these old dog bureaucrats view of America’s National Interests lay in placating Arab nations that are friendlier (not necessarily friendly) to America at the expense of the Middle East’s only successful Western Style Democratic Nation – Israel.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Alba Matter&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">Since Rice has become Secretary of State the Global War on Terror only exists in Iraq and Afghanistan even though ALL of the PLO and Hamas in particular have committed acts of aggression against America.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Alba Matter&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">Divorcing the Palestinian Terrorists from the Global War on Terror has moved the Bush Administration into forcing the issue of a Two-State solution of the existence to the Land of Israel and a sovereign nation of Palestine. This drive to force the existence of Palestine is occurring even though the concerted goal of Palestinian Terrorists is the elimination of Israel as a nation with the giddy dream of wiping Jews out in the Middle East.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Alba Matter&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">Secretary Rice’s push for a Two-State solution indirectly aid’s the Palestinian goal of the destruction of Israel.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Alba Matter&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">So do I think Condi Rice should be a VP consideration for McCain? NO. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;ZZZ Top&#39;">I hang my head in sadness today. Fred Thompson made it official and is bailing from the Presidential race.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">Fred Thompson dropped his presidential bid Tuesday, after the former Tennessee senator and actor finished third in the South Carolina primary and was unable to score a victory in any of the early primaries or caucuses.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">“Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people,” Thompson said in a statement.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">Prior to his public statement, the GOP candidate had begun calling friends, family members and supporters to tell them he was ending his campaign, four months after he formally announced his White House bid, a run that was greeted much more enthusiastically before he actually got into the race.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">Thompson left Nashville Tuesday afternoon for McLean, Va., where he was expected to make a formal announcement as early as Tuesday night.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">Aides said Thompson sent an e-mail Monday telling them he was still undecided about whether to stay in the race. But with no plans to campaign in Florida, which holds its primary Jan. 29, or to participate in a Republican debate Thursday, his staffers expected him to withdraw.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">The attorney and actor seemed on the verge of bowing out Saturday during his post-election address in Columbia, S.C., after it became evident he would not finish better than third in South Carolina.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">Telling his supporters to “stand strong,” he said, “We will always be bound by a close bond, because we have traveled a very special road together for a very special purpose. You know, it’s never been about me. It’s never even been about you. It’s been about our country and the future of our country … And because of your efforts and because of our working together, our party is being required to look itself in the mirror, decide where it’s going, decide who it is.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">Thompson prided himself as a consistent conservative in Ronald Reagan’s image, and stepped up that assertion in the days preceding the vote in South Carolina, where he said he drew “a line in the sand” for his campaign.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">Along the way he fielded criticism that he appeared lazy and generally disinterested in becoming president, Thompson did earn positive reviews for a series of debate performances last fall and earned an endorsement by the National Right to Life Committee.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">But the momentum behind his delayed entrance into the race — and several missed cues on issues from the right-to-life for Terri Schiavo to Usama bin Laden — steadily diminished as his GOP rivals racked up victories in early test states. Poll averages showed the Thompson went from second place nationally in early September to fifth this week.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">Thompson came to Washington as a 30-year-old attorney appointed to be minority counsel for his mentor, former Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee, who was the top Republican on the Senate Watergate Committee.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">He earned fame when he asked a question of which he already knew the answer — whether deputy assistant Alexander Butterfield knew that his boss, President Nixon, had been secretly taping White House conversations.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">Several years later while practicing law in Tennessee, Thompson represented Marie Ragghianti, the head of the Tennessee Parole Board who was fired after exposing a pardon-selling scheme involving aides for then-Gov. Ray Blanton. Thompson played himself in the 1985 movie “Marie” based on the episode and got generally positive reviews.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">The film launched Thompson’s acting career. Among his many characters, he played President Ulysses S. Grant in this year’s made-for-TV movie “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” and the fictional President Charles Ross in the 2005 film “Last Best Chance.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">His departure only nominally thins the field in the GOP race, where no breakaway front-runner has emerged. John McCain, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney have each won at least one major early state contest, and Rudy Giuliani has dug deep into Florida, fighting hard to prosper in that state’s primary.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">Thompson did not endorse anybody in his statement Tuesday.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: liberation sans">As for Thompson’s future, speculation is rampant that he could be angling for vice president. Such a move would follow the lead of another former Tennessee senator, Al Gore, whom Thompson replaced in the Senate in 1994 after Gore became vice president.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><span style="color: #000080">I have written and posted&#160;<a href="http://theway2k.vox.com/library/post/the-ron-paul-illusion.html"><span style="color: #660000"><strong>HERE</strong></span></a></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><span style="color: #000080"> about the confirmed evidence of Ron Paul’s white supremacist racism. For Ron Paul supporters who were unaware of the Paul racism but were duped by Libertarian charm, here is a </span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/01/ron_paul.php"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Pajamas Media post</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><span style="color: #000080"> that has examples of the racist Newsletters published under Paul’s name.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><span style="color: #000080">Please Ron Paul supporters, DO NOT BE DUPED BY THE “I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WAS WRITTEN UNDER MY NAME” defense! The length of time these were published makes that defense absurd to believe.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/01/ron_paul.php" title="Ron Paul Bigotry Revolution"></a>A damning <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">New</em></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Republic</em></strong> expose on Ron Paul shows the “libertarian” Republican candidate to be a racist, a homophobe and an anti-Semite. Will his diehard supporters continue to defend a man who called <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Martin Luther King</strong> a gay pedophile? <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Daniel Koffler</strong>, a former Paul sympathizer, has a compendium of the Texas congressman’s creepiest hits, pulled straight from his decades-old newsletter.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">[Read “</span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/press-releases/125/ron-paul-statement-on-the-new-republic-article-regarding-old-newsletters"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Ron Paul Statement on The New Republic Article Regarding Old Newsletters</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">” @ Ron Paul campaign’s website]</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">James Kirchick of the <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">New</em><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Republic</em> has a </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7da84ca"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">devastating piece</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"> on Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) online today on the TNR website. Kirchick provides a meticulously detailed history of the “<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Ron Paul Political Report</em>,” a newsletter Paul had circulated to a network of some 7,000 subscribers from the late 80s and early 90s.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">As Kirchick reports—whether describing post-apartheid South Africa as a “destruction of civilization,” alleging that Martin Luther King “seduced underage girls and boys,” warning of “tens of thousands of well-placed friends of Israel in all countries who are willing to wok [sic] for the Mossad in their area of expertise,” or urging white readers to arm themselves after “the first skirmish in the race war of the 1990s,”—virtually every historic trope of racism, anti-Semitism, anti-gay bigotry, or conspiracy theorizing has been featured in the “Ron Paul Political Report” in one way or another. For his part, Paul has alternately acknowledged writing some of the material that went out under his name, only to deny authorship when confronted with the most disturbing details. In any case, Paul has taken “moral responsibility” for the contents of the “Ron Paul Political Report.” What follows is a quick digest of some of his greatest, which is to say most disgraceful, hits.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“[O]ur country is being destroyed by a group of actual and potential terrorists—and they can be identified by the color of their skin.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city [Washington, D.C.] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, but it is hardly irrational.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“The riots, burning, looting, and murders are only a continuation of 30 years of racial politics.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“The criminals who terrorize our cities—in riots and on every non-riot day—are not exclusively young black males, but they largely are. As children, they are trained to hate whites, to believe that white oppression is responsible for all black ills, to “fight the power,” and to steal and loot as much money from the white enemy as possible. Anything is justified against ‘The Man.’ And ‘The Woman.’’”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“My friend waved to the tiny [African-American] child, who scowled, stuck out her tongue, and said (somewhat tautologically): “I hate you, white honkey.” And the parents were indulgent. Is any white child taught to hate in this way?” [As a matter of fact, Paul has appeared on a radio program called “The Political Cesspool,” which has featured the neo-Nazi twin pop stars </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Blue_%28duo%29"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Prussian Blue</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">. –ed.]</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“But this is normal, and in fact benign, compared to much of the anti-white ideology in the thoroughly racist black community. The black leadership indoctrinates its followers with phony history and phony theory to bolster its claims of victimology.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">&#160;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“Korean-Americans, hated by blacks, never riot, and in fact are some of the most productive people in America (the reason for black hatred).”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“The cause of the riots is plain: barbarism. If the barbarians cannot loot sufficiently through legal channels (i.e., the riots being the welfare-state minus the middleman), they resort to illegal ones, to terrorism.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“We must not kowtow to the street hoodlums and their sanctimonious leaders.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“Regardless of what the media tell us, most white Americans are not going to believe that they are at fault for what blacks have done to cities across America. The professional blacks may have cowed the elites, but good sense survives at the grass roots.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">&#160;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“Blacks have ‘civil rights,’ preferences, set-asides for government contracts, gerrymandered voting districts, black bureaucracies, black mayors, black curricula in schools, black beauty contests, black TV shows, black TV anchors, black scholarships and colleges, hate crime laws, and public humiliation for anyone who dares question the black agenda.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">Source: <a href="http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/g/ftp.py?people/g/gannon.dan/1992/gannon.0793"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">The Ron Paul Report, “Los Angeles Racial Terrorism</span></strong><span style="COLOR: black">”</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">&#160;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“Black males age 13 that have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary, and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">Source: The Ron Paul Political/Survival report, 1990-1994, </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol16/issue9/pols.paul.side.html"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">excerpted by the Austin Chronicle</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">Conspiracist Pull Quotes:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“We now know that we are under assault from thugs and revolutionaries who hate Euro-American civilization and everything it stands for: private property, material success for those who earn it, and Christian morality.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“In San Francisco and perhaps other cities, says expert Burt Blumert, the rioting was led by red-flag carrying members of the Revolutionary Communist Party and the Workers World Party, both Trotskyite-Maoist.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">&#160;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“Many people tried to buy guns to protect themselves. But, whoops, California has a 14-day waiting period. And then, just to make sure honest Californians could not get ammunition for the firearms they already owned (poor ragefilled youth might be shot), Mayor Tom Bradley ordered all gun and ammo shops closed, a great help to criminals who had stocked up earlier, or who could simply break in and loot.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“Several days after the violence ended, we learned that there would have been blacks on the King jury—if the NAACP hadn’t engaged in jury tampering by telling potential black jurors that it was their racial duty to convict the cops. The blacks admitted this to defense lawyers, and were rightly excluded from jury. This is a serious crime, but the NAACP will not be prosecuted.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“Two years ago, in a series of predictions for the 1990s, I said that race riots would erupt in our large cities. I’m now predicting this will be the major problem of the 1990s.” [Helter Skelter, anybody?—ed.]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">&#160;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">Source: <a href="http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/g/ftp.py?people/g/gannon.dan/1992/gannon.0793"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">The Ron Paul Report, “Los Angeles Racial Terrorism</span></strong><span style="COLOR: black">”</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“Last month I reported on massive, illegal spying by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith against its perceived opponents, as revealed in California. The ADL keeps track of people and groups from left to right, and purchases illegally obtained information on Americans from its agents in police departments in order to prepare and maintain hundreds of thousands of dossiers.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“The [Los Angeles] Times also brought to light the ADL’s work against ‘cults,’ especially interesting given the BATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms]-ADL connection.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“It was such a seminar [i.e. a cult awareness training seminar], arranged by the ADL, that targeted the Branch Davidians in the first place.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">Source: </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><a href="http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc289/LSUfanFR/?action=view&amp;current=Mowing.jpg"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">The Ron Paul Survival Report, June 15, 1993</span></a></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“The intensity with which Israel lobbies in the U.S. Congress is surpassed only by its media campaigns to drown all criticism of Israel. Prominent U.S. Editors and media owners don’t even pretend to objectivity on the issue. <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">They all follow the advice of</em> Norman Podhoretz, editor of the influential neo-conservative magazine <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Commentary</em>….” [Our emphasis –ed.]</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“This bias [Martin Peretz’s] informs every opinion expressed in The New Republic. For example, it opposed Contra aid until the Sandinista government showed sympathy for the PLO.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">Source: </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><a href="http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc289/LSUfanFR/?action=view&amp;current=Helms.jpg"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">The Ron Paul Political Report</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">, date uncertain</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“If this walking bomb had gone off, it would have demolished the House Chamber and most of the congressmen in it. Yet this attempted terrorist attack was buried by the media. Why? Because the perpetrator was an undoubtedly mad Israeli, furious over alleged slights to his country… [T]he Israeli lobby deep-sixed the story, and no one outside of Congress ever head about it.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">&#160;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">Source: </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><a href="http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc289/LSUfanFR/?action=view&amp;current=PLO.jpg"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">The Ron Paul Political Report</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">, date uncertain</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">&#160;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“The Earth Summit is the creepiest meeting of politicos since the first gathering of Bolsheviks. Officially known as the UN Conference for Environment and Development, it will be held in Brazil in June; bad guys from all over the globe will attend.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“[Hillary Clinton] is one of the most dangerous women in public life. Not only is she a fanatical abortion advocate, she wants parents to register with the government as a condition for having children to be able to sue and `divorce’ themselves from their parents. Maybe her daughter ought to sue her parents for attempting to raise her as a leftist. That sure qualifies as abuse to me.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“Disgruntled taxpayer Dean Hicks fired bombs through mortars at night at buildings of the Internal Revenue Service in California. Hicks did damage federal property, but no individuals were injured… Hicks was sentenced to 20 years in prison, given a $45,000 fine, and ordered to pay $335,000 in restitution to the IRS. If he had been a serial murderer, he would not have gotten this sort of sentence.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">“There is good news after the L.A. riots. Statewide, gun sales are up 45% over the same period last year. People have been purchasing a record number. If the cops are not going to take care of the problem, the people will.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist">Source:</span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol16/issue9/pols.paul.side.html"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"> </span><span style="COLOR: maroon; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">The Ron Paul Political/Survival report, 1990-1994</span></a></span></em></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Typist"><span style="color: #000080">Daniel Koffler graduated from Yale in 2006 with a BA in philosophy. He has written for Reason, Dissent, Jewcy, and the Guardian’s “Comment is Free,” among other outlets.</span></span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"><span style="color: #000080">I had the impression Ron Paul was a Libertarian Republican with disastrous a Foreign Policy platform. I had heard the rumors that Paul was receiving big chunks of money from White Supremacist hate groups but I merely chalked that up to something yet awkwardly the racist hate groups liked about Paul.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"><span style="color: #000080">I am finding out just how naïve I really was. From an odd named blog (</span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"><a href="http://flapsblog.com/"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog</span></a></span></em></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"><span style="color: #000080">) that bill’s itself as “FullosseousFlap’s Comments on the Dental World and More.” The “and More” seems to reign over comments on the Dental World for FullosseousFlap spends a great deal more time blogging on Conservative issues.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"><span style="color: #000080">Anyway </span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"><a href="http://flapsblog.com/?p=6240"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">the blog has <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">found credible dirt</em> on Ron Paul</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"><span style="color: #000080"> that has him printing newsletters that are of a White Supremacist anti-Semitic nature. That places Ron Paul in the category of hypocrite trying to fool mainstream Republicans with a Libertarian bent. It is heinous! It is embarrassing! It is like when KKK </span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/210/000024138/"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">David Duke</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"><span style="color: #000080"> ran for office in Louisiana as a Republican.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">Why is </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"><a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/01/ron_paul.php"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">THIS</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"> news? It was a matter of time before someone found the historical Ron Paul written record.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">Flap has pounded Ron Paul for weeks over his </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"><a href="http://flapsblog.com/?p=6081"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Donald Black</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">, David Duke and </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"><a href="http://flapsblog.com/?p=6066"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">Stormfront.org (White Supremacist/Neo-Nazi)</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"> ties - his <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jew problem</strong>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">But, here are some </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"><a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7da84ca"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">key graphs</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore">·<span style="FONT: 7pt &#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">Such views on race also inflected the newsletters’ commentary on foreign affairs. South Africa’s transition to multiracial democracy was portrayed as a “destruction of civilization” that was “the most tragic [to] ever occur on that continent, at least below the Sahara”; and, in March 1994, a month before Nelson Mandela was elected president, one item warned of an impending “South African Holocaust.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><span style="mso-list: Ignore">·<span style="FONT: 7pt &#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">The newsletters display an obsession with Israel; no other country is mentioned more often in the editions I saw, or with more vitriol. A 1987 issue of Paul’s Investment Letter called <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Israel</strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> “an aggressive, national socialist state,”</strong> and a 1990 newsletter discussed the “tens of thousands of well-placed friends of Israel in all countries who are willing to wok [sic] for the Mossad in their area of expertise.” Of the <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">1993 World Trade Center bombing</strong>, a newsletter said, “Whether it was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.”</span></p></blockquote>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">But it is difficult to imagine how Paul could allow material consistently saturated in racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and conspiracy-mongering to be printed under his name for so long if he did not share these views. In that respect, whether or not Paul personally wrote the most offensive passages is almost beside the point. If he disagreed with what was being written under his name, you would think that at some point–over the course of decades–he would have done something about it.</span></p></blockquote>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">The Ron Paul Revolution is a <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">RUSE</strong>. It’s origins are not in libertarianism but the <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">FAR RIGHT</strong> hate crowd.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">Yes, I read the TNR article and scanned Pajamas. I’ve followed Paul’s voting record in Congress for years. He is a polite, honest, straight talking country doctor with utmost integrity and my favorite Congressman.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">ARLINGTON</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">, VIRGINIA</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"> – In response to an article published by The New Republic, Ron Paul issued the following statement:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">“The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed. I have never uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">“In fact, I have always agreed with Martin Luther King, Jr. that we should only be concerned with the content of a person’s character, not the color of their skin. As I stated on the floor of the U.S. House on April 20, 1999: ‘I rise in great respect for the courage and high ideals of Rosa Parks who stood steadfastly for the rights of individuals against unjust laws and oppressive governmental policies.’</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">“This story is old news and has been rehashed for over a decade. It’s once again being resurrected for obvious political reasons on the day of the New Hampshire primary.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;">“When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several writers contributed to the product. For over a decade, I have publically taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name.” </span></p></blockquote>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Berlin Sans FB&#39;"><span style="color: #000080">Come on Paul! You say, “I have publically taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name.” That is a lot of Newsletters for you not to pay attention. That makes you a moron not fit to be President or liar not fit to be President.</span></span></p>
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        <title>The old warhorse</title>   
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        <title>More on Mike Huckabee</title>   
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: x-large; color: #000080; font-family: butter">The thing I like about Huckabee is he is a man of Faith; therefore he is a man that would support Christian Right Conservative social causes which are so dear to my heart.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: x-large; color: #000080; font-family: butter">Two critical issues have come across my view screen concerning Huckabee’s viable electability.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="font-family: butter"><span style="color: #000080">Apparently Huckabee had some </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: maroon"><a href="http://www.drudge.com/news/101060/gop-rivals-focus-huckabees-ethics"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">ethics issues while Governor of Arkansas</span></a></span></strong><span style="color: #000080">. That is not a good image for an ordained Baptist Minister turned politician. I have to read an explanation from a pro-Huckabee apologist on this issue.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: x-large; color: #000080; font-family: butter">The second issue is taxes. Evidently Huckabee was the tax hike king during his tenure as Governor of Arkansas. On this issue I have found a very credible explanation that support the tax hikes during his tenure as Governor.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="font-family: butter"><span style="color: #000080">Most of the taxes were hugely beneficial in Arkansas and were bi-partisan in nature. </span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: maroon"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/us/politics/02huckabee.html?ei=5088&amp;en=d437045f9d40ecc5&amp;ex=1354251600&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss&amp;adxnnlx=1196597784-T4AQrGsgK7QyVqXTCHJiOg&amp;pagewanted=print"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">By the time Huckabee finished his “decade” long stint as Governor, Arkansas had an $844 million surplus</span></a></span></strong><span style="color: #000080"> as opposed to a $200 million “shortfall” when he began his Office as Governor.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: x-large; color: #000080; font-family: butter">This hugely satisfies my doubts on issue two.</span></p>
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        <title>Thompson Will Rebound in Pre-Election Polls</title>   
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="color: #000080">Indeed the </span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><a href="http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2007/11/is_fred_dead.html"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">recent polls are seemingly showing the same enticement followed by a soul searching re-think</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="color: #000080"> of what drew people to Fred.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">Fred made people nostalgic for a new Great Communicator that could sway a nation back to unity and pride while making the Left appear loony. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">President Bush is no great communicator. The strength of his two elections was the polarizing votes of the Christian Right out numbering the Left at the voting polls. GW had won the hearts of the Christian Right with words that made him appear one of them lock stock and barrel. Bush was not elected on his eloquence, rather he was elected on because of the representation that President Clinton was the picture of everything despised and Al Gore and John Kerry projected the same moral lunacy if not worse. So the Christian Right came to the Presidential election in droves hoping to outnumber the Leftists and was successful.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">Here is the thing. President Bush gave the appearance of strong leadership in a time of a National Crisis when al Qaeda murderers were flying jets into American buildings on American soil. In addition President Bush managed a robust economy for America. Unfortunately the Left hated and hated GW passionately. In a bond of unity the Mainstream Media and the Leftist Democratic Party publicly diminished GW’s strong points and disseminated to the public obvious weaknesses. In circling the wagons the Bush Administration made some correct decisions with catastrophic execution.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="color: #000080">The War on Terror needed to be addressed; however the rules of engagement for the military were politically motivated instead of utilizing military rules of engagement designed to win. The political rules of engagement was afflicted with the virus of being politically correct which led to a stalemate that the MSM projected as a successful insurgency winning with a strategy of blended terror and attrition. The length of the attrition and the botching of </span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><a href="http://www.slantright.com/index.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=855"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">finding WMD</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="color: #000080"> became fodder team MSM and Democratic Party whittle on Bush credibility.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">Thus an anti-war movement began under fringe Left management that seemed to draw many people of the political center who listened to the distortions of the Left.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">Then President Bush began to alienate the Christian Right (particularly after 2004) and the Conservative base by not attending Slanted Right moral agendas. The persecution of Christians in schools became rampant, references to God on public buildings became challenged by the Left, illegal immigrants sky rocketed with Border Agents being restrained or prosecuted for doing their jobs. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">President Bush seemed to be getting way to cozy with Arab Mohammedans that have been the money bags of terrorists and the spread of terrorist ideology – such as the Wahhabi element of Saudi Arabia. Which in turn has influenced the Bush Administration to carve out a sovereign nation for Arabs calling themselves Palestinians at the expense of Israel: This path could threaten Israel’s very existence.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">I could on with the disappointment of President Bush so let us focus on a post-Bush era.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="color: #000080">Fred Thompson’s failure to maintain a surge of popularity may have to do with </span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><a href="http://www.slantright.com/index.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=621"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">staffing decisions</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="color: #000080"> that were not popular with Conservatives. Coupling this with a late start turned eyes back to Republican candidates who have been duking out a bit longer than Fred.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">Nonetheless Fred and his team have set forth some of goals of Thompson Presidency if so elected and I like them.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="color: #000080">1. A </span></span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><a href="http://www.slantright.com/index.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=802"><span style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">border security</span></a></span></strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="color: #000080"> plan:</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">A. No Amnesty</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">B. Attrition through enforcement; i.e. enforce the laws already on the books vigorously.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">C. Enforce existing Federal laws; e.g. ending sanctuary cities, ending higher privileges to illegals that American citizens do not even receive; prevent the use of Federal Grants in States and localities to fund special benefits for illegal aliens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&#160;&#160; </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&#160;&#160;&#160; </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">D. Reduce illegal job incentives.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">E. Rigorous entry/exit tracking. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">2. Improving the legal Immigration process:</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">A. Maximize program efficiency; i.e. speed up the process determining if immigrant can immigrate, if there is a job market American citizens are reluctant to work then expedite the process of an immigrant willing to do the work.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">B. Enhanced reporting of temporary working immigrants.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large; color: #000080">&#160;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Accidental Presidency&#39;"><span style="font-size: x-large"><span style="color: #000080">C. Modernize immigration law/policy; e.g. If an immigrant has defi