Brace Yourselves, The Government is Wasting Money Again

"Suspicious Memes-" that's what were being investigated by our Government with our tax dollars. No. I'm serious. Follow the link and enjoy. :)

http://rare.us/story/the-government-spent-1million-investigating-suspicious-memes/

The Good Doctor

Rand Paul Heads To Guatemala To Conduct Charity Eye Surgeries. http://tiny.iavian.net/2qgu

Dr. Rand is a great humanitarian who yearly conducts pro Bono eye surgeries. His heart is bigger than his politics which makes his political clout all the more formidable.

Politicians who push pro Liberty policies and who voice a limited government and an aggrandizement of individual liberty message tend to he attacked for lacking "heart." I'm sure you've heard those old and pathetic arguments that Liberty supporters don't "care" for say, the poor and others. If Dr. Rand Paul's and other Liberty advocate's words and logically sound arguments with facts don't silence the false attacks; then let our actions, especially the potential Republican presidential nomination's actions, dismiss them.

Intense Fighting Between the Kurds and ISIS

The brave Kurds don't run like the Iraqi army. They are fighting and gaining against ISIS. They can eliminate ISIS with Western support. Western involvement taking down Hussein opened up this vacuum that the evil and barbaric ISIS filled. It's only right that the US and Western powers help the Kurds in crushing one of the most evil groups since the Nazis and Communists of World History.

Kurds Destroy ISIS: http://youtu.be/pcZ7a7frX-k

Political Photo Bomb Level: BOSS

Look at this kid and he photo bombed the Gipper!

Paul's Response to Perry

Rand Paul had to once again combat a mischaracterized attack on his very explicitly documented foreign policy views on foreign policy. I urge you to look up his views by his own words. The most recent attack is from Governor Rick Perry. Perry amazingly found time among all the chaos on the border to critique Paul and paint him as a dangerous isolationist. Perry wants us to believe that Paul doesn't care about threats overseas. The specific threat Perry discussed was the recent attacks and land grabbing by ISIS in Iraq. Perry obviously is gearing up for a run for president in 2016 by making time to falsely portray Paul's views. According to Perry and so many other Republican War Hawks, an "isolationist" is someone who refuses to support giving funds and weapons to radical Islamist rebel groups and other Nations that hate America. An "isolationist" also opposes sending our troops willy-nilly into foreign countries without congressional approval with a clear purpose, a plan to win, and a clear exit strategy in place. But I digress. Here's an excerpt from the article and the link to the article. I urge you to read the entire article. It's too good and too important not to. This is what the GOP is at odds with going into the 2016 election. Paul's position is stronger and more popular among many in the party and many Americans across the country. This makes Perry mad. 

I also want to stop sending U.S. aid and arms to Islamic rebels in Syria who are allied with ISIS, something Perry doesn't even address. I would argue that if anything, my ideas for this crisis are both stronger, and not rooted simply in bluster.
If the governor continues to insist that these proposals mean I’m somehow “ignoring ISIS,” I’ll make it my personal policy to ignore Rick Perry’s opinions.
But the governor and I do have at least one major foreign policy difference, something Perry also conveniently fails to mention.
Said Perry forthrightly during a Republican presidential primary debate in 2012, “I would send troops back into Iraq.” Obviously, this is something he advocated long before the rise of ISIS. At the time, Perry urged the United States to return troops to Iraq to act as a balance against Iran, a country my colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham says we must work with to help beat back the extremists.
Does Perry now believe that we should send U.S. troops back into Iraq to fight the Iranians—or to help Iran fight ISIS? As everyone agrees, governor, there are no easy options.

Unlike Perry, I oppose sending American troops back into Iraq. After a decade of the United States training the Iraq’s military, when confronted by the enemy, the Iraqis dropped their weapons, shed their uniforms and hid. Our soldiers’ hard work and sacrifice should be worth more than that. Our military is too good for that.
I ask Governor Perry: How many Americans should send their sons or daughters to die for a foreign country — a nation the Iraqis won’t defend for themselves? How many Texan mothers and fathers will Governor Perry ask to send their children to fight in Iraq?
I will not hold my breath for an answer. If refusing to send Americans to die for a country that refuses to defend itself makes one an “isolationist,” then perhaps its time we finally retire that pejorative.

Today, the overwhelming majority of Americans don’t want to send U.S. soldiers back into Iraq. Is Perry calling the entire country “isolationist” too?
The let’s-intervene-and-consider-the-consequences-later crowd left us with more than 4,000 Americans dead, over 2 million refugees and over trillions of dollars in debt. Anytime someone advocates sending our sons and daughters to war, questions about precise objectives, effective methods and an exit strategy must be thoughtfully answered. America deserves this. Our military certainly deserves this.

Death Penalty Reform?

Should the status quo remain? Should it be ended? Is there a middle ground of reform?

I just read a compelling article entitled, "I oversaw 36 executions. Even death penalty supporters can push for change,"  by Mark Earley from The Guardian. Earley is a former prosecutor who is a supporter of Capital Punishment. The author of this article contends that there is a need and purpose for the death penalty; but it's troubling flaws are systematic and in need of reform. It is an uncomfortable and heated topic which differing sides are deeply entrenched with no flexibility. Earley states,"We all know what is wrong with our death penalty system, supporters and abolitionists alike. There are those who say it can never be "fixed" – and they may [sic] right. But there are real changes that can reduce errors." Here's an excerpt below. For the full article click on the "article" link above. 

Watching failures like this from a proverbial front-row seat made me realize that, though the death penalty may be justified in some circumstances, the procedural safeguards are too weak to adequately protect the innocent. After witnessing how my own state's death penalty system really worked, I just didn’t have the heart for it anymore. I am not unique in having the scales fall from my eyes after such immediate contact with the lack of justice and fairness in state death penalty systems throughout the United States.

Regulating Away the American Dream

Regulating Away the American Dream

 A great article by John Stossel.  Here's an excerpt below. Follow the link above to read the full article.

The more government "protects" us, the more it puts obstacles in the way of trying new things. It does that every time it taxes, regulates, and standardizes the way things are done. Simultaneously, government offers "compassion"—welfare and unemployment benefits.

Faced with the choice of collecting unemployment or putting your own money at risk and hiring an army of lawyers to deal with business regulations, I understand why people don't bother trying. When that attitude is pervasive, the American dream dies.