The Rabid Quill

You can read it at Top of Center, or go to the TalkShoe page to download it.

The people in conservative media can’t stand McCain. I wonder if it has anything to do with their paymasters fully supporting Hillary Clinton.  But if they disagree with McCain on all things but one — where were they when Ron Paul, who has unconditionally fought big government on their behalf for decades, needed their vote?

Even if you just read it, download the MP3 anyway. It helps keep my website afloat.

Ron Paul is about to release a book in April called The Revolution: A Manifesto, and it’s already number three on Amazon’s most popular books list. Maybe you should buy one of your own.

It will be his first fully original book in 20 years. A Foreign Policy of Freedom merely consisted of speeches he had already given over his decades in Congress. This book is entirely newly written material.

This all relates to the ultimate goal of the Ron Paul campaign: To change America. This mission will continue whether Paul wins the Republican nomination or not. And I don’t mean that in the same desperately optimistic hope that Libertarians are perennially treated to when LP candidates run for President. “We can win!” or “It’s about the message!” is a vain phrase typically heard from the LP in their perpetual bids in futility for the Oval Office. They’ve been at it for 30 years with the same results every time. I do believe the success of the Ron Paul campaign is completely independent from whatever it is the LP has been doing.

I believe that because I know that there is a vast American underground of people who believe in freedom. Not the Rooseveltian Freedom From Want, but the Jeffersonian Freedom to be Left Alone, the freedom from government intervention in your life. I know this because I’ve met them. Until Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, we were scattered across the country, isolated and alone. But he’s done the most important thing for us: he’s brought us together. We’re forming groups, we’re meeting up, making plans, and organizing our own campaigns. Some are even running for public office.

Getting Ron Paul types into public office is important, but even more important is showing people already in office, already in leadership positions, the ideas in this book. That’s why I think you should buy several, and give them to people in your area. Pastors, newspaper writers and editors, and members of city government.

I’ll be buying a few myself.

Also posted at Top of Center.

The Wall Street Journal is about to publish an ad from GATA accusing the Federal Reserve of manipulating the gold market. Learn more here.

Gold is the universal safe haven of savings. Gold has held a stable value for 5,000 years, which is why it’s such a great standard to put your economy on and why spendthrift governments despise it. Here in America we’ve had brief stints of fiat money, but only long enough to finance a war or some other crisis, because people knew that paper was ultimately worthless. Your money has to have value if it’s — well — going to be valuable. Yet during the last 30 years our government has deluded itself into thinking it can sustain a monetary system without a standard of account like gold. Money is not just imaginary digits we use to account for things. Money is an asset. The fruits of your time and labor and creativity converted into a store-able, trade-able form.

GATA, the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, has long agitated that central banks around the world have been trying to manipulate the price of gold. For a while they’ve been succeeding, but you can only flood the market as long as you have the reserves to flood it with, and that’s quickly running out. I think if we actually audited the Fed, and looked in Fort Knox, we might find nothing but cobwebs and IOUs.

This is very bad for America, but facing the problem is a step in the right direction.