Ron Paul: A Lesser Evil?

Ron Paul is far from perfect, but I’ll say this much for the Texas congressman: He has never authorized a drone strike in Pakistan. He has never authorized the killing of dozens of women and children in Yemen. He hasn’t protected torturers from prosecution and he hasn’t overseen the torturous treatment of a 23-year-old young man for the “crime” of revealing the government’s criminal behavior.Link

Silver hits record near $50................

(Reuters) - Silver soared to an all-time high on Thursday and gold rose to another record, as the dollar fell and as signs that the Federal Reserve would maintain a loose monetary policy stoked inflation worries.Link

Consumers feeling greater pressure.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Consumers’ spending power has been affected In the face of rising fuel prices and other inflationary pressures, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s Chief Executive Mike Duke said on Wednesday.Link

BP expects to resume drilling in Gulf.....

BP has predicted it will be back drilling in the Gulf of Mexico within a matter of months despite continuing legal threats and rows over pollution from last year's Deepwater Horizon disaster. "We expect to be back and actively drilling during the second half of the year," Byron Grote, the company's chief financial officer, told financial analysts from the City of London on Wednesday.Link

'I want to see...Trump's Republican registration'.

CONCORD, N.H. -- The contrast could not have been clearer. Where Donald Trump flew into this first-in-the-nation primary state yesterday on his personal helicopter, Senator Rand Paul flew in on Southwest – and had coffee spilled on him, to boot.Link

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Libya death toll could be as high as 30,000.

WASHINGTON – The death toll in Libya after more than two months of violence could reach as high as 30,000, an Obama administration official said Wednesday.Link

Monsanto Will Be Allowed To Police Itself...

Monsanto, enemy of organic farmers and anti-GMO advocates alike, will likely be allowed to conduct its own environmental studies as part of a two-year USDA experiment. But there is no good that can possibly come of an experiment where the company behind nearly every genetically modified crop in our daily diets is allowed to decide whether its products are causing any environmental harm. And Monsanto isn't the only biotech company that will be permitted to police itself.Link