Conservatives ‘like the empire’........

Texas Rep. Ron Paul proved once again Saturday that his politics continue to divide the Republican Party. He was met with both disapproval and applause during the Southern Republican Leadership Conference for describing conservatives as hypocritical when they call for a return to Constitutional values while supporting foreign wars. The conservatives and the liberals, they both like to spend. Conservatives spend money on different things. They like embassies, and they like occupation. They like the empire. They like to be in 135 countries and 700 bases. Don’t you think it’s rather conservative to say, ‘Oh it’s good to follow the Constitution. Oh, except for war. Let the President go to war anytime they want.’ We can do better with peace than with war...Link

Ron Paul's SRLC Speech.

What Is A Libertarian?..............

SRLC Straw Poll...Dr. Paul ties for 1st.

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Polish leader, 96 others dead.

SMOLENSK, Russia – An aging Russian airliner carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and members of his country's military, political and church elites crashed in thick fog Saturday as it took them to a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the slaughter of thousands of Polish military officers by Soviet secret police. Poles wept before their televisions, lowered flags to half-staff and taped black ribbons in their windows after hearing that the upper echelons of the establishment lay dead in woods a short drive from the site of the Katyn forest massacre, one of Poland's greatest national traumas...Link

On the rise in Senate race.

Peter Schiff has a stock tip for you -- bet on me. Despite running a distant third to Linda McMahon and Rob Simmons in the most recent Republican Senate poll, the brash-talking Ron Paul consigliere and money manager from Weston said he expects to cut into that lead now that his campaign espousing smaller government and lower taxes is on television. "I would put a million bucks on me 20 to 1," Schiff said. "Scott Brown was a longshot. Who thought he was going to win?" Schiff, 47, addressed his prospects of going from widely perceived also-ran to viable darkhorse during a recent sit-down with Greenwich Time, in which he articulated his views on the economic meltdown that he said he predicted and his fixes for health care, Social Security and the federal tax code.Link

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GOP gathering a 'jump-start'.............

New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- Nearly 4,000 GOP insiders are descending Thursday on New Orleans for the start of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, thought by many to be the unofficial kickoff to the 2012 presidential cycle. Along with speeches from party leaders, the conference's agenda includes strategy sessions and even a GOP-themed film festival -- not to mention behind-the-scenes networking and a sampling of the city's abundant food and drink. The conference is taking place just steps from Bourbon Street. The Republican National Committee and Republican Governors Association, eager to fill their coffers in a midterm election year, also are holding fundraisers to piggyback off the gathering, which takes place every four years...Link

Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. citizen.

In late January, I wrote about the Obama administration's "presidential assassination program," whereby American citizens are targeted for killings far away from any battlefield, based exclusively on unchecked accusations by the Executive Branch that they're involved in Terrorism. At the time, The Washington Post's Dana Priest had noted deep in a long article that Obama had continued Bush's policy (which Bush never actually implemented) of having the Joint Chiefs of Staff compile "hit lists" of Americans, and Priest suggested that the American-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was on that list. The following week, Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Dennis Blair, acknowledged in Congressional testimony that the administration reserves the "right" to carry out such assassinations...Link