Previous News and Commentary- Jan. 2008

Representative Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio may get excluded from Democratic presidential debates, as he has been recently, but no one can deny him the floor in the House.

And today (January 23) Mr. Kucinich took to the floor to fire off his latest salvo at the Bush administration: his plans to introduce Articles of Impeachment against President Bush on Jan. 28 — the day of Mr. Bush’s State of the Union speech.

Accusing the administration of lying about the need for the war in Iraq, Mr. Kucinich said he did not need to hear the president’s assessment. “We know the State of the Union,” he declared. “It’s a lie.”

He also fired a volley at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California who has maintained that impeaching Mr. Bush is not on the table for Congressional Democrats. “If impeachment is off the table,” Mr. Kucinich said, “truth is off the table. If truth is off the table then this body is living a lie.” Full article=>

The Revolution Was

There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.

There are those who have never ceased to say very earnestly, "Something is going to happen to the American form of government if we don't watch out." These were the innocent disarmers. Their trust was in words. They had forgotten their Aristotle. More than 2,000 years ago he wrote of what can happen within the form, when "one thing takes the place of another, so that the ancient laws will remain, while the power will be in the hands of those who have brought about revolution in the state." Full article=>

Obama Overwhelms Clinton in South Carolina Final Count: Obama 55%, Clinton 27%

Chevez Urges Latin American Allies to Pull their International Dollar Reserves from US Banks

Tip-Off Thwarted Nuclear Spy Ring Probe Claims Former FBI Employee

Impeachment: No More Investigations Please !

US Quietly Demands Iraq give Defense Contractors, US Military Immunity from Prosecution

The Wall Street Journal has agreed to publish a full-page ad in which the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee charges the U.S. government surreptitiously utilizes gold reserves to engage in international swaps and other market manipulations. "Anybody Seen Our Gold?" is the title of the ad, which alleges U.S. gold reserves held at depositories such as Fort Knox and West Point may have been seriously depleted. GATA asserts U.S. gold reserves are being shipped overseas to settle complex transactions utilized by the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury to suppress the price of the precious metal. Full article=>

John McCain appears to have won the Louisiana GOP caucuses, which were held Tuesday to select delegates to the state convention.

Louisiana’s primary is Feb. 9, but more than 10,000 Republican voters in the state attended the caucuses Tuesday to select delegates to the state convention, which is held to elect nearly all the state’s delegates to the national convention, being held this year in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Preliminary results showed McCain won more of the 105 state convention delegates than any other candidate — most of the elected delegates actually ran on a statewide “pro-life uncommitted slate,” according to the state GOP, but McCain claimed the most delegates for a named candidate.

The Louisiana GOP did not release final numbers, but reported that Texas Rep. Ron Paul came in second and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney came in third.

What a shot in the arm the Nevada caucuses were, where we took the silver as #2, beating McCain, Huckabee, Thompson, and -- of course -- Giuliani. We also got four more delegates. In South Carolina, we beat Rudy again. A big thank you to all our wonderful donors, volunteers, and voters. So many people worked so hard to spread our message of liberty, honest money, peace, and free-market prosperity. I owe you all my deepest gratitude. So do our fellow citizens. So do all future Americans. Most of the mainstream media continue to pretend that we do not exist. Yet soon the race will be down to four candidates-Romney, McCain, Huckabee, and me, and there is no stopping us, as Tim Russert grudgingly pointed out the other night. Thanks to you, we are in this all the way through a brokered convention. MORE=>

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The Revolution Was