Ron Paul M.D. on ABC World News 10/03/07

Sony BMG to charge consumers for thinking of the name “Sony”

Well, not really. But during testimony in a file-sharing legal case today, Jennifer Pariser, Sony’s head of litigation, made some odd statements (which close aids have attributed to an overly tight necktie). The story on Ars Technica goes like this:

Pariser has a very broad definition of “stealing.” When questioned by Richard Gabriel, lead counsel for [...]

Rep. Ron Paul M.D. Raised $5.3 million in the Last Quarter!!!!!!!

Yay Ron!
Average donation: $40.00.
Update: This is a “Jaw-Dropping,” turn of events according to ABC News.

Politicians arrested over gang rape

The Times/Reuters
LAGOS Five members of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) were
arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a teenage girl. The 17-year-old was
abducted and raped ten days ago in Ilesa, Osun state, after she refused to
testify against an opposition party at an election tribunal, it was
reported.
Hundreds of petitions are being heard across the country to resolve [...]

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The Vacuous Manequin

10/1/07
Q Do you have any reason to believe that junta leaders will meet with the U.N. Envoy?
MS. PERINO: I don’t have any reason to believe one way or the other. We — he is there waiting to meet with him and as soon as we have an update, we’ll provide it.
Q And the protests, themselves, [...]

Scott Horton interviewed by the Saker

Check out my Q&A with Scott on my blog.  We touched upon libertarian ideas and the candidacy of Ron Paul.

China $200 Bil ‘SuperFund’ Set to Drain American Dollars

In its ongoing struggle to disinflate its own economy and drain some of the trillion-plus devaluing American dollars that it holds, China’s leadership has apparently authorized the hush-hush creation of a US$200 billion “super fund” that will purchase raw materials around the world, according to FMNN sources close to the Chinese top leadership.
The report [...]

Meet the New IMF, Same as the Old IMF

from ADEBlog
Leave it to a socialist to provide the International Monetary Fund with its new agenda, basically the same old agenda.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former finance and economics minister in French politician Lionel Jospin’s “Plural Left” government, “said overhauls he intends for the IMF will allow it to adapt to ‘a new balance of power in [...]

Hail to the Taxers

from the WSJ
Actor Jeff Daniels makes a cool pitchman in those national TV spots inviting business to Michigan, but soon he may have to start pitching inside the state. At about 2 a.m. Monday, a handful of Republicans in the Legislature broke days of gridlock and handed Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm the $1.48 billion tax [...]