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I am trying to be objective and give Sue the benefit of the doubt.  But the more she speaks, the harder it is for me to not call her a trojan horse.

Sue Lowden is losing credibility.  Doesn't she realize that Bernie Sanders, a socialist, voted against the bailout?  Dennis Kucinich voted against the bailout, too.

I have spent the last few weeks picking on Sue Lowden. While I don't believe she would make the best candidate and I do believe Republicans should vote for another candidate in the primary, if she does win the primary Ron Paul supporters should reconsider their view of Lowden.

I am going to take heat for this one in emails. I know, I know. After I started picking on Sue, I also received hate mail.

I just wanted to make the case for Lowden if she does win the primary. In order to put Lowden into context, I believe we need to put the present political system into context.

I was reflecting on the case of Igor Olenicoff. Google the name, since I am sure you probably haven't heard of it before. The man has assets valued in the billions. He was born in Russia but is now an American citizen. He had some of his money in a Swiss bank account. The U.S. government went after him on the pretext that he had evaded taxes. His sentence? Repatriating his money to the U.S. banking system.

Understand what the implications of this are. If the government can trap capital in, it can trap people in. I get the sense that, in the overall picture, Lowden is a junior, that she is trapped into this bad system as is everybody else, and that she is genuinely concerned about the direction of the country. I just don't believe she should be your first choice for the primary and that she might be unelectable.

If this doesn't scare you, then I don't know what would:

I have to disagree with the idea that the market looks good.  The market is levitating in the same way as are Treasuries.  Inflation and economic growth are not synonymous.

....as a Republican-turned-non-partisan-with-libertarian-leanings.  As I re-read my statement on Senator Wellstone's passing, I believe the words are timely: My 2002 statement on the untimely passing of Senator Wellstone

Happy MLK, Jr., Day!

Loyalty can't be bought.  There are some things that may be a "secret" to the average Nevadan.  But Ron Paul supporters don't have short memories.  I am more willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, but I can guarantee you that if Lowden wins the primary, this is going to spawn a third party movement.  And down goes the Nevada GOP.  My prediction: a strong third party movement in Nevada if Lowden is on the ticket.  I'm sorry, but that's just how I see it.

I haven't yet discovered a CFL member who would vote for Sue Lowden.  If one of them is out there, feel free to get back to me and let me know.

Here is some great commentary out of Forbes that echoes exactly what I and the rest of the Austrian Schoolers have been saying for years: Misunderstood Lessons From The Depression.  One thing I haven't been shy about pointing out is that the Monetarists, though not as bad as the Keynesians, still misdiagnose the pathological origin of busts and offer the wrong solutions.

I am pleased to report that I just launched PhantomCongress.org.  The site is in its embryonic stages.  I was inspired to do so by the man in the video below, who I have been in touch with about this project.  I would also like to make clear that REAL members of Congress are not allowed.  If the PhantomCongress.org is infiltrated by REAL members of Congress, then that would defeat our purpose!  Hahahaha.  Sorry, Dina, but you can't become a Phantom Congressmember!

Here is a piece of great commentary from Deroy Murdock out of the National Review: Will the American People Finally Revolt?

A few days ago, I sent Congresswoman Dina Titus a New Year's message, which was a speech delivered by MEP Daniel Hannan.  Just to inform all of my readers, I thought I would let you know that MEP Daniel Hannan and Ron Paul are kindred spirits.  Daniel Hannan is a supporter of Ron Paul.

I recently wrote a fairly good piece giving advice on how to trade the yield curve.  Since I wrote it, the short end of the bond market has already started to fall.  Here is a link to my commentary.

I have received emails in which the author had me confused with a different Mark Anderson who writes for the American Free Press.  I wanted make this statement to end this, although this probably won't be ended once and for all.  Although the other Mark Anderson writes about some issues similar to ones I have written about, I am NOT the Mark Anderson who writes for the American Free Press.  I count the AFP to be a FASCIST publication.  Furthermore, I am on record as opposing immigration control, which would place me squarely at odds with the AFP. 

I just wanted to share an observation that I made about how the war in Iraq was sold to conservatives.  This is an observation that, as far as I know, nobody else has made.

I remember during the months leading up to the war in Iraq we were given a "debate" between "two" sides: war with UN support or war without UN support.  Remember that the excuse given to go to war against Iraq was to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441.  Quick: if one United Nations Security Council member country decides to go to war and another United Nations Security Council member country decides to not go to war, which one is defying the United Nations and which one isn't? 

So how was the war sold to conservatives?  It was sold by the Kristol wing of the Republican Party as defiance of the United Nations.  How was this done?  The neoconservatives morphed the country of France into the United Nations.  Thus defying France became tantamount to defying the United Nations.

Since most people aren't cognizant of the fact that the Star Spangled Banner has four verses and the last sentence of the first verse was put to us as a question - not a statement - I thought I would go ahead and post all four verses of the Star Spangled Banner.

Star Spangled Banner

by Francis Scott Key

O say! can you see, by the dawn's early light,
  What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
  O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
  Gave proof thro' the night, that our flag was still there.
O say! does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen thro' the mist of the deep,
  Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
  In full glory reflected now shines in the stream.
'Tis the Star-Spangled Banner.  O long may it wave
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
  That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
  Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
  From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
  Between their lov'd home and war's desolation,
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n-rescued land
  Praise the pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
  And this be our motto, "In God is our Trust."
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. 

I have decided to follow in the footsteps of Grant Bosse by running for a phantom Congressional seat.  I am going to run in Nevada's phantom 9th Congressional District.

The federal budget deficit for the first month - and this is only one month - of FY 2010 was almost $180 billion (not even counting off-budget outlays).  While many people inside of Washington understand there is a problem, the excuse given for the spending orgy is that it must continue on unabated until the politicians get done stimulating the economy back to "health."  The error in this calculus is that there will be no economic recovery until the Congress does get its fiscal house in order.  The big-spenders' argument inverts the order of things.  The only thing the Congress is stimulating is the consumption of capital and savings (wealth destruction), while interfering with the price mechanism, thus guaranteeing that assets and labor don't clear the market (homeless people and peopleless homes).

I call for the prompt return to a balanced-budget, fiscal sanity, and doing so in such a way the involves cuts in government expenditures as opposed to tax increases.

Here is my latest commentary:

Accolades to Congressmen Ron Paul, Alan Grayson, and Bill Posey

Here are some video clips of Max Keiser, who calls Goldman Sachs scum, and, in part 2, calls for a return to a gold standard. His opponent admits that the days for the dollar as reserve currency are numbered, but then calls for susbstituting the dollar with a different fiat currency. It won't work. Inflationary stimulus got us into this mess, and no other fiat currency will help. What do these guys think they will accomplish with a different fiat currency? Do they really believe they will be able to "stimulate" the economy with some other fiat currency, when the world is suffering from an overdose of inflationary stimulus? Furthermore, whatever government or institution gets to issue the reserve currency will be corrupted in the same way the U.S. government was corrupted. In my next post, I will post a link to the writings of the late Dr. Edwin Kemmerer, who called for a prompt return to an international gold standard back when the bankrupt U.S. government steered the world towards the pseudo-gold standard Bretton Woods, which was destined to fail from its inception.
Part 1


Part 2