Why the Pass for Ron Paul?

There’s a multilevel discussion going on over at Q&O, on Ron Paul and his Nazi contributors. Paul hasn’t disavowed these contributors, nor has he returned the money.

I’ll use Jon’s lede for the links:

I understand the point McQ has

INDIRECT FIRE ATTACKS DECREASE IN IRAQ

Posted: 14 Nov 2007 09:06 AM CST

INDIRECT FIRE ATTACKS DECREASE IN IRAQ

SOLDIER FOUND NOT GUILTY OF MURDER

Posted: 14 Nov 2007 09:01 AM CST

SOLDIER FOUND NOT GUILTY OF MURDER

NINE IRANIAN

Found at Donklephant:

Frum:

“Just noticed that Andrew Sullivan opines that I am “rattled” by Paul’s haul. Personally, I think it is Andrew who has been “rattled” by being caught in yet another of his careless or reckless errors

Poor Paul Krugman...

So there’s a campaign on to exonerate Ronald Reagan from the charge that he deliberately made use of Nixon’s Southern strategy. When he went to Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1980, the town where the civil rights workers

Has Ron Paul pulled a Murtha, unjustifiably calling our troups murderers?

Yes, and yes.

Bruce at Q&O:

  A and an week or so ago, I stated:

We read that polls are telling the Democrats that the mood of the people has swung toward being receptive to more and bigger government. Some argue it’s

Gerry Willis , in the Los Angeles Times,  attempts a tortured defense of the practice of abortion:

But is abortion murder? Most people think not. Evangelicals may argue that most people in Germany thought it was all right to

Mike Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard:

The Wall Street Journal reports on the stunning success of Representative John Murtha in channeling taxpayer dollars to pork-barrel projects in his district, including awards for companies under FBI investigation and others which show

Michelle notes a Fox News report that says a career army officer, and small business owner has decided to challenge Jack “Cold Blood” Murtha…

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. —(FOX)- A career Army member left the service two years short of retirement to

It is amazing to me how often Glenn Greenwald can trip over his own tounge and still be convinced he’s smarter than everyone else. This one’s going to require some background.

As Bruce McQuain noted the other day, the

I’d think if it were but possible to rewrite one’s will after your death, the the Nobel committee would need to find another line of work.  After proving that their peace prize was a sham by awarding to jokers like

Free Speech:

Sadly, Mr. Chuck Adkins of Lincoln Park, Michigan has now taken his rude behavior a step too far. Tonight I posted a respectful comment (no profanity or anything) to his blog asking him to explain to me

The Wall Street Journal, today, reminds us of the massacre that wasn’t;

The incident at Haditha–or the massacre, as it is often called–is due for a wholesale rethinking. The allegations are that in 2005 U.S. Marines went on a killing

Michelle, this morning, makes note of something we’ve noted here previously;

Innocent black Americans are being harassed, driven out of their neighborhoods, and targeted for murder.

Why isn’t it on the front page of every national newspaper? Why isn’t CNN