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We wouldn't have been able to fight World War I (the Federal Reserve was created just in time to bankroll that war). Had we not gotten into the most pointless major war in history there would have been a negotiated peace between Germany and Austria on one side and Britain and France on the...

A true isolationist is an advocate of the neocon's strategy of maintaining global military hegemony over the world and bombing any country that doesn't like it. It makes us hated by millions of people who would otherwise either be indifferent to us or admire us. How many people really hate...

Truly the dumbest argument I have ever seen.

No tolerance for Christians. But I'm willing to make concessions to a governor who doesn't want a Christmas tree in the statehouse: Replace it with a nativity scene.

The payroll tax cut means that social security is now even deeper into deficit. If you want to get social security in your old age PAY FOR IT. Of course it would have helped if congress hadn't spent all that money in the social security trust fund on other things, back when we had social...

This is the same guy who said he's visited most of the 57 states of the union.

Indeed. For every scum bag in the Republican Party, there is a scum bag in the Democratic Party.

It is obvious that I've won this debate. I'm tired of arguing with a fool, so I'll let you argue with yourself for the rest of this thread.

Idiot. States can and must designate what the debts they owe or are owed are to be paid in. They must designate that those debts are paid in gold or silver coin. You have failed to point to any clause in the Constitution that lets the federal government override this requirement. It's...

The youtube Ron Paul ads are so much better than the official campaign ads. If the Paul campaign would just have the sense to air ads like this one he'd walk away with the election.

The only reason we still have freedom of speech (well, mostly) is because the courts enforce that part of the Constitution. If the courts didn't do that the politicians would have taken away free speech long ago. If the courts actually enforced the monetary provisions within the Constitution...

Another example of why "Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms" should be a store not a government agency.

The political elites hate gold because they want to be able to promise lots of government spending (mostly entitlements of various sorts) but know it would be politically infeasible to raise taxes sufficient to pay for all the promises made. Suppose for example, that the neocons actually had to...

This is tiresome. A state incurs debts, and is owed debts. For each such debt the state must say what it is to be payed in. Article 1, section 10 does not let the state make those debts payable in anything but gold or silver coin. Saying that the state has made a debt payable in gold or...

Gold backed paper is not the same as our current fiat money, because you can only increase the paper if you increase the gold that backs it. The whole point of a gold based currency is to prevent the government from stealing your savings through inflation, and you don't get that with a pure...

There's something about gold that gets the gold skeptics saying stuff like this. I figure the gold haters are just jealous of people like me who bought gold under $400. The message from the fiat currency mainstream has been something like this: 1999: Gold is a barbaric relic that doesn't...

The question was, where does the Constitution have a clause that says congress can pass laws overriding Article 1, section 10? Show it to me. Forbidding states to grant titles of nobility does not imply that the federal government can not issue titles of nobility, so the Constitution...

At least I'm not certifiably insane. Anybody who thinks we have the option of unilaterally nuking an nuclear armed country (i.e., nuking them without risk of getting nuked in return) is crazy. Your neocon warmonger candidates have gotten much less than $37.7k in military donations --...

Of course you have no answer to my question, so you dwell on titles of nobility.

There is nothing in the Constitution that says congress can override Article 1, section 10. Show me the clause where it says they can. There is nothing terribly extreme about imaging a future Supreme Court ruling mandating legal bestiality. Suppose you were an average American citizen in...