Rand Paul Filibusters Against Drone Executions Without Trial
When Senator Rand Paul began to speak yesterday, the subject on the floor was Barack Obama’s nomination of John Brennan to lead the CIA. The thrust of his speech, however, was the Obama policy, which...
View ArticleRand Paul Looks Out of Country and Out of State for Political Inspiration...
Last week, Senator Rand Paul “of Kentucky” introduced special legislation, S. 887. You may notice that I placed “of Kentucky” in quotes in the last paragraph. That’s because, according to Open Secrets’...
View ArticleRand Paul Partied with Lobbyists for Tax Cheats Before Introducing Bill to...
November 6, 2012: Credit Suisse banker pleads guilty to participating in a scheme to help 150 ultra-wealthy Americans hide millions of dollars of income in Swiss bank accounts so they wouldn’t have to...
View Article7 GOP Senators Vote To Deprive Medicare and Medicaid Services Of Leadership
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted on the confirmation of Marilyn B. Tavenner to the position of Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. There were no serious concerns about...
View ArticleSenator Introduces Bill to Stop Unwarranted Drone Surveillance (and it's not...
Yesterday, a lone member of the United States Senate introduced legislation that would formally outlaw the already unconstitutional government practice of using aerial drones to spy on Americans...
View ArticleWhen You Search With Google You Fund Antiscientific Propaganda
Irregular Times came of age in the 1990s. It was a time of great hope, when the Internet was seen as a tool that could bring about historic change. Wealth, education and political activism could be...
View ArticleSenate Blocks Amendment To Restrict Aid To Egypt After Military Coup
U.S. law requires an end to aid to any country where the national government has been overthrown by a military coup. The national government of Egypt was recently overthrown by a military coup. Yet,...
View ArticleNew NSA Reform Bill Is Too Weak
You’ll hear a lot of talk this morning that a bill being introduced by U.S. senators Ron Wyden and Rand Paul is the “most comprehensive” legislation to address the unconstitutional abuses of the...
View ArticleOur Destiny As Children Of God Revealed In The U.S. Senate Yesterday
Yesterday, Barry C. Black, the man appointed and paid by the U.S. federal government to be the high priest of the United States Senate, stood on the floor of the Senate and called upon his god to seize...
View ArticleLibertarians, How Do You Feel About the Rand Paul Plagiarism Scandal?
Since he appeared on the national scene in 2010, Senator Rand Paul has been a favorite of libertarians in the United States. Libertarians assert “the right to life — accordingly we support the...
View ArticleThank Rand Paul For Suing Barack Obama
Senator Rand Paul is a Republican with a nasty pro-corporate libertarian ideology. When he campaigns for President in 2016, he won’t have my support. Still, today, Rand Paul has my thanks. Why? While...
View ArticleMy Own New York Exploratory Republican Presidential Preference Poll
Yesterday, I received a New York Voter Exploratory Republican Presidential Preference Polling Ballot in the mail. Why would I receive a presidential preference poll from the Republicans, when I’ve...
View ArticleRand Paul Versus Bernard Sanders On CIA Spying Against The US Senate
Here we are, a full day since the news that the CIA has been conducting illegal spy operations against the United States Senate. In reaction to the revelations yesterday, our writer J. Clifford...
View ArticlePolitical Group Reinvents A New Direction For The Second Time
What could be more temporally confused than a political group that calls itself Reinventing A New Direction? A direction, if it is truly new, and not merely rehashed elements from an old direction,...
View ArticleMeritocracy Loses In 2016 Presidential Poll
A new poll out by NBC and Marist shows, among voters in New Hampshire and Iowa, Hillary Clinton in the lead for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination and Jeb Bush in the lead for the 2016...
View Article2016 GOP Republican Candidates Decline To Condemn Steve Scalise Nazi Politics
The big news of the day is that Congressman Steve Scalise has admitted attending a conference of white supremacists, and speaking as a featured at that conference. The conference was prominently...
View ArticleRand Paul Demands Presidential Election In 2016
In the opening lines of his personal video response to the State of the Union Address by the President of the United States, Kentucky’s junior senator Rand Paul called for there to be elections to...
View ArticleRand Paul Is A Phone Case
We’ve been writing about some rather odd small time candidates for President of the United States, from Robert Milnes, who dreams of bringing the Nazi Party into American politics, to Nathan Norman,...
View ArticleRand Paul Wants Constitutional Protections For Some Behaviors But Not Others
First term Republican Senator Rand Paul, who is expected to run for President in 2016, who has explained that he finds same-sex marriage offensive, also says, in a recently unearthed interview, that he...
View ArticleThe Pros and Cons of Rand Paul for President
As Republican presidential candidates go, Senator Rand Paul is more reasonable than most. Of course, as asteroids go, Ceres is more hospital to human colonization than most. The following are the pros...
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