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Paul has received endorsements from:

Political parties

 

Press
  • The Daily Iowan
  • The Littleton Courier (New Hampshire)
  • Berlin Reporter (New Hampshire)
  • Coos County Democrat (New Hampshire)

 

Organizations
Iowa
  • Dubuque Tea Party of Iowa
New York
  • Tea Party Coalition of Western New York
  • Allegany County Tea Party of New York
  • Buffalo Liberty Tea Party of New York
  • Monroe County Tea Party of New York
  • Ontario County Tea Party of New York
  • Steuben County Tea Party of New York

 

Party officials
Democratic Party officials
  • Lynn Rudmin Chong, former Democratic chair of Belknap County in New Hampshire
Republican Party officials
  • Cory Adams, Republican chairman of Story County in Iowa
  • Josh Davenport, Republican co-chair of Clay County in Iowa
  • David Fischer, member of the Iowa Republican State Central Committee
  • Heath Hill, former Republican chairman of Story County in Iowa
  • Drew Ivers, member of the Iowa Republican State Central Committee
  • Jeremiah Johnson, member of the Iowa Republican State Central Committee
  • James Mills, member of the Iowa Republican State Central Committee
  • A.J. Spiker, member of the Iowa Republican State Central Committee and former Republican chairman of Story County
  • Kris Thiessen, Republican chair of Clay County in Iowa

 

Current U.S. Senators and Congresspeople

 

Governors

 

Current state legislators
New Hampshire
  • Jim ForsytheNew Hampshire State Senator
  • Andy Sanborn, New Hampshire State Senator
  • Ray White, New Hampshire State Senator
  • Anne Cartwright, New Hampshire State Representative (Cheshire, District 2)
  • Jenn Coffey, New Hampshire State Representative (Merrimack, District 6)
  • Seth Cohn, New Hampshire State Representative (Merrimack, District 6)
  • Tim Comerford, New Hampshire State Representative
  • Guy Comtois, New Hampshire State Representative (Belknap, District 5)
  • Cameron DeJong, New Hampshire State Representative (Hillsborough, District 9)
  • Phil Greazzo, New Hampshire State Representative (Hillsborough, District 17) and Manchester Ward 10 Alderman
  • J.R. Hoell, New Hampshire State Representative (Merrimack, District 13)
  • Paul Ingbretson, New Hampshire State Representative (Grafton, District 5)
  • Kyle Jones, New Hampshire State Representative (Rochester)
  • Laura Jones, New Hampshire State Representative (Rochester)
  • Robert Kingsbury, New Hampshire State Representative (Belknap, District 4)
  • George Lambert, New Hampshire State Representative (Hillsborough, District 27)
  • Robert Malone, New Hampshire State Representative (Belknap, District 5.)
  • Jonathan S. Maltz, New Hampshire State Representative (Hillsborough, District 27)
  • Donna Mauro, New Hampshire State Representative
  • Andrew Manuse, New Hampshire State Representative
  • Paul Mirski, New Hampshire State Representative (Grafton, District 10)
  • Keith Murphy, New Hampshire State Representative (Bedford)
  • Laurence Rappaport, New Hampshire State Representative
  • Kevin Reichard, New Hampshire State Representative
  • Lisa Scontsas, New Hampshire State Representative (Hillsborough, District 22)
  • Tammy Simmons, New Hampshire State Representative (Hillsborough, District 17)
  • Kathy Souza, New Hampshire State Representative
  • Norman Tregenza, New Hampshire State Representative
  • Lucien Vita, New Hampshire State Representative (Middleton)
  • Carol Vita, New Hampshire State Representative (Middleton)
  • Mark Warden, New Hampshire State Representative (Hillsborough, District 7)

According to Forsythe, Paul has received support from twenty New Hampshire state representatives as of early July 2011.

North Carolina
Idaho
  • Phil Hart, Idaho State Representative
  • Vito Barbieri, Idaho State Representative
  • Pete Nielsen, Idaho State Representative
  • Shirley McKague, Idaho State Senator
Iowa
Louisiana
New Jersey
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Texas
Washington
  • Cary Condotta, Washington State Representative
  • Matt Shea, Washington State Representative
Wyoming
  • Kendell Kroeker, Wyoming State Representative (House District 35)

Former Cabinet members, diplomats, and other officials

 

Political activists

 

Former Judges

 

Former CIA Officers
  • Michael Scheuer, a former CIA intelligence officer who served as the Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station from 1996 to 1999, and Special Advisor to the CIA’s bin Laden unit from September 2001 to November 2004.

 

Businesspeople

 

Academia

 

Celebrities and commentators

 

 

Starting at midnight tonight Laughter and Liberty will join more than 7,000 other websites in blacking out in support of the strike against SOPA and PIPA.

 

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Freedom: 1, SOPA: ZERO!

Quite possibly one of the best things to happen in the name of freedom in the past 10 years, a huge win for liberty supporters everywhere, has finally happened. Without the president having to use his veto power. After taking the heat on SOPA from major websites planning a blackout in protest of the freedom stealing legislation, along with the pleas of thousands of freedom lovers all over the world the White House finally spoke out against SOPA and threatened to veto the bill saying “We will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.”. Considering how rare it is for a bill to actually pass once the President has vetoed it, it looks like that is all that was needed to make the SOPA sponsors back down. (for now) A statement from House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa concluded; ”While I remain concerned about Senate action on the Protect IP Act, I am confident that flawed legislation will not be taken up by this House, majority Leader Cantor has assured me that we will continue to work to address outstanding concerns and work to build consensus prior to any anti-piracy legislation [.READ MORE..]

Ron Paul Raises over 3 Million Dollars In

  Ron Paul’s “Tea Party Money Bomb” kicked off at midnight last night with his supporters wondering just how close they might come to the record setting fundraiser four years ago on this day. On December 16, 2007 Ron Paul garnered national news attention when his Tea Party Day event raised over 4 million dollars in a 24 hour period. The term money bomb was coined in 2007 referring to an organized online fundraiser that typically has a theme or falls on an important date in history. The notable quality about these events is that they are created and executed not by the campaign, but by grassroots supporters who come together online organizing pledges in the hundreds of thousands. Yesterday’s money bomb raised just over 3 million dollars, a respectable amount when you consider the average donation of just $300. Dr Paul was at his best on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno answering questions about the economy, Iran,  foreign aid and everything else that most people don’t have a clue about. He spoke clearly and intelligently and showed his true strength as Leno asked about marijuana legalization. Leno must have had an audience full of stoners because the crowd [.READ MORE..]

These spots have been running in early primary and caucus states: SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!! See the originals and more: http://www.youtube.com/ronpaul ——————————————– PAUL CLOSES IN ON GINGRICH There has been some major movement in the Republican Presidential race in Iowa over the last week, with what was a 9 point lead for Newt Gingrich now all the way down to a single point. Gingrich is at 22% to 21% for Paul” http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/12/paul-closes-in-on-gingrich.html ——————————————– Want this ad to run on television even more in early primary and caucus states? Donate to the Ron Paul campaign: http://www.ronpaul2012.com http://www.teaparty11.com

As demonstrated in this video below Herman Cain obviously knows his stuff when it comes to Foreign Policy. I especially love how he appears to be looking to the heavens to find some inspiration on how to answer a question he knows absolutely nothing about. He pauses for an uncomfortable length of time. In the end he just goes with a general disagreement with how Obama handled it, but didn’t he just say in the Foreign Policy debate this week that he himself would impose sanctions as a solution to conflict? Yes. Yes he did. Silly Herman, maybe you should go back to making pizza.   bump this video on reddit

For four long years now, or three and a half anyway, the nation has been perplexed by a statement by then-candidate Barack Obama to the effect that the United States of America is comprised of fifty-seven states.  Well, we here at Laughter and Liberty are pleased and proud to announce that we have uncovered the perfectly logical explanation. With President Obama’s agreement today to defend Australia from all attackers for perpetuity, we can now definitely state that we have pinpointed the source of the confusion.  It is now apparent that as far as Obama is concerned, the list of the Several States that compose the United States of America includes Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territories, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania. Dear Pulitzer Committee:  We expect to be hearing from you soon.

The Eleventh Hour is kind of an archaic term, these days. It has pretty much been replaced by The Last Minute. It referred to getting things done before a midnight (or noon) deadline–if you’re working at 11:something, you’re a procrastinator. So, ninety years ago today, when The Armistice was signed late in the morning, the grim, gallows humor was that they waited until the Eleventh Hour–The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month… And there was a reason for that–Europe was in tatters, and the majority of the young men of an entire generation (or two, or three–at the end, they were taking them mighty young and mighty old) were gone. It was past time to end that nightmare. Kaiser Wilhelm II, the crazy, spoiled young brat of the Prussian House of Hohenzollern, had decided shortly after his coronation that the new confederation called Germany would become a major power, not only on land but on the sea. So, he started building battleships, and eventually dreadnought type battleships, much to Great Britain’s consternation. This added to other European tensions, many of which were centered on the uneasy alliance that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and helped make diplomacy [.READ MORE..]

So, Billybob, you glad to be rid of Anwar al-Awlaki? Yeah, that bastard deserved to die!  We’re all safer with him dead n’ buried! You act like you knew him. Naw, I din’t know that guy, I don’t wanna know him.  He’s dead and good riddance. I didn’t think you liked Obama. Well, hell, I don’t.  But even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Would you just as soon be rid of Obama?  Do you want to wait until he gets beat in the election, or would you rather just throw him out now? Well, I don’t figure Biden could be worse, so I’d just as soon be rid of him now.  But whatcha gonna do? What if I told you ordering the killing of al-Awlaki was unConstitutional? I don’t believe it.  How could gettin’ rid of that Anastazi guy be a bad thing?  Didn’t they say he was our enemy? Well, yeah, they said that, but you know they were kind of supposed to prove it.  He was an American, after all, and we’re really not supposed to go around killing Americans without taking them to court first. Well I don’t think no terrist deserves no day [.READ MORE..]

It’s just time for Ron Paul to move up to Oklahoma, that’s all. Now, I’ll admit that the Houston-Galveston area is kind of special.  Houston is the fourth largest city in the nation, they own the only surviving dreadnaught battleship in the whole world, and they have a monument taller and less cracked than the Washington Monument.  They are special, and they had to be to steal the title of Oil Capital from us, before Dubai stole it from them.  But, you know, other than the nice trains running out of Palestine and some pretty scenery in eastern Texas that can hold a candle to the gently rolling hills of Oklahoma, Texas is a few gazillion acres of nothing worth mentioning, and that’s it. And, of course, the usual Texas politician is some LBJ-Dubya-Rick Perry style inarticulate, flesh-pressing, clod kicking, high school bully of a moron.  No wonder they’ve been reelecting Ron Paul for a couple of decades now.  Who else have they got to be proud of?  Stephen Austin?  Sure, but what has he done for us lately? Ron Paul is just too good to be a Texan, that’s all.  He went too far south.  And the proof is [.READ MORE..]

Washington D.C. got shaken up Tuesday.  No one is sure what caused the earthquake on the twenty-third.  The area isn’t known for tectonic activity.  There is some reason to believe all of the founding fathers were busy rolling in their graves.  Thomas Jefferson in particular, being the author of the Declaration of Independence, could well be doing a posthumous watusi as we give away our liberties for nothing more than a false sense of security.  Indeed, as the Fourth Amendment goes the way of habeus corpus, all of Arlington may have been on the roll that day… But, as much as Washington needed a good, thorough shakeup, not much seems to have changed out that way save the closing of the Washington Monument.  But don’t give up hope.  This weekend, the city will receive the cleansing of a lifetime as Irene comes to provide some maid service.  If we’re really, really lucky, she’ll wash the Department of Education down the Potomoc and out to sea, and maybe we can get back up to the educational standards the nation enjoyed in 1978 before that monolith was created.  But don’t count on it. No, I fear the thing that is needed to [.READ MORE..]

“It’s awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.”–Will Rogers 1928

from opensecrets.org “This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2008 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization’s PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals’ immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.” Top contributors in 2008   Ron Paul US Army $78,056 US Navy $56,769 US Air Force $55,405 Google Inc $52,801 Microsoft Corp $47,923 US Postal Service $26,591 Hewlett-Packard $25,318 Lockheed Martin $23,425 Cisco Systems $23,007 Boeing Co $22,434 Verizon Communications $19,944 Wachovia Corp $19,629 US Dept of Defense $19,198 General Dynamics $18,506 AT&T Inc $17,946 Northrop Grumman $16,907 JPMorgan Chase & Co $16,072 Apple Inc $15,903 Raytheon Co $15,830 General Electric $15,000   Mitt Romney Goldman Sachs $235,275 Citigroup Inc $178,450 Merrill Lynch $176,125 Morgan Stanley $170,350 Lehman Brothers $154,800 UBS AG $125,150 JPMorgan Chase & Co $123,800 Bain & Co $121,475 Marriott International $121,150 Bain Capital $118,550 Kirkland & Ellis $111,700 Credit Suisse Group $104,900 Compuware Corp $103,550 Huron Consulting $102,050 The Villages $102,000 PricewaterhouseCoopers $92,250 American Financial Group $87,550 Affiliated Managers Group $82,112 Cerberus Capital Management $79,450 Wachovia Corp $77,200    

“Yours for truth, even if it interferes with news.”–Will Rogers’ Daily Telegram, 1926

The results are in from the Iowa Straw Poll.  And the winner is… He Who Must Not Be Named! Who must not be named?  Why, keep this under your hat, but it was Randy Travis, of course.  Why must he not be named?  Well, all of the Sunday morning talk shows didn’t mention him because they all had Michele Bachmann on, and it would have been offensive to their honored guest to suggest that he had anything to do with her razor-thin win the day before.  So, did he? Well, let’s put it this way:  The man who came in second by less than a percentage point margin didn’t have Garth Brooks in his tent.  Nor Willie Nelson, nor anyone else someone might conceivably pay more than thirty bucks to hear in a small venue. So, we extend our hearty congratulations to Mr. Travis.  And we can’t wait to hear his stump speech!

“Coolidge is the first president to figure out that what Americans want is to be let alone” –Will Rogers

There’s going to be a special surprise guest–at the next Republican presidential debate.  Seems the ratings have been slipping for this rather depressing reality series, and the only regular anyone seems the least bit enthusiastic about is the old guy who doesn’t wear Gucci suits and six hundred dollar haircuts.  You know, the one you’re not supposed to like at all.  So, they’re doing what is always done when their reality show is tanking.  They bring in special surprise guests.  Like when they brought in Gary Busey to prop up Trump’s ratings.  Too bad he couldn’t help Trump’s campaign the same way. So, who is this special surprise guest?  Well, if they told you then you wouldn’t be shocked and amazed when it turned out to be Texas governor Rick Perry.  So, how do I know that’s who it is?  Simple.  He recently ignored Matthew Chapter Six and prayed loudly in public on behalf of the nation.  Now, this isn’t a sure sign he’s running.  After all, Dick Roberts–you know, Oral’s number one son–has done this a lot and never ran for president.  But then, Perry got nationwide coverage in the news media when he did it.  And, unlike Roberts, [.READ MORE..]

It’s a Star Chamber!  It’s tyranny!  It’s Super Congress! That’s right, folks.  While they were distracting us with an overblown debt ceiling debate, there was a little sleight of hand going on.  The debt limit controversy was just another Trojan Horse.  So, what was the real deal they wanted to slide past our distracted eyes?  SuperCongress! What, exactly, is this new and wonderful thing?  Well, it’s a Congressional committee which has been unconstitutionally awarded certain powers formely reserved only for the whole Congress.  Seems the Big Committee was too unwieldy to shove some of their scarier agendas through, so they just thought they’d shrink the thing a bit.  So, from now on, some five hundred and twenty-three members of the House and Senate can concentrate on dining with lobbyists, visiting cathouses and getting reelected because most of the work will be done by twelve select members–six from the House and six from the Senate. These twelve apostolic power brokers could conceivably be from as few as three states.  Three states out of fifty-seven U.S. states and territories.  This means, by simple arithmetic, that of our states and territories, as many as eighty-seven and one half percent of them could well [.READ MORE..]

“This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.” — Will Rogers

Once upon a time, a little girl was born and named Christina. Her mother was a severely troubled little beauty from the reservation lands atop the infamous oil dome of the Glenn Pool.  Her father, in short, is me. The County of San Diego, California, in violation of federal Indian law, has seen fit to award sole custody of little Christina to a white man.  He is known to abuse alchohol and meth.  I once sheltered his son and namesake.  I know him to be the product of an abusive home.  I know him to have been abusive himself.  I know his son and namesake to have been abused. My paternity has been established by the District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma.  This District Court decision should be recognized in all fifty states and all of the territories of the United States of America.  It should be recognized.  My paternity is established, and has been a matter of public record for seven years. Seven long and heartbreaking years. This paternity has been told to the child welfare agency of the County of San Bernardino, California, where the troubled couple lived before moving (yet again) to San Diego County in the [.READ MORE..]

“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”–Will Rogers 1923

Ban the jurors from your restaurant!  Hunt the world over for the woman!  How dare she cause the media to make us question our most cherished prejudices, then make us question our other most cherished prejudices by getting off? Boy, what a circus!  There’s nothing like another Trial of the Century to get your juices boiling for a couple of months, is there?  Yee-haw!  Our local CBS affiliate KOTV even ran a story recently about a Pryor woman working a convenience store in Chelsea who got run off the road and rammed until her topheavy pig-em-up truck overturned–and just because she looked like Casey Anthony.  Of course, she didn’t look like Casey Anthony and the incident didn’t have anything to do with the Casey Anthony trial.  Seems her attacker was yelling at her about her own daughter Caylee, possibly because the woman thought little Caylee was being abused and she couldn’t get the local rednecks in the police department to do a damned thing about it, some onlookers made assumptions, and the reporter thought these assumptions would make a good story.  So, the C-store clerk winds up on TMZ telling the world this had nothing to do with Casey and [.READ MORE..]

“I hope some of the men who got the most votes get elected.”–Will Rogers

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly [.READ MORE..]

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