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If YOU truly care about our military, you will support Ron Paul. He gets more campaign contributions from active military than all other Republican candidates combined. The guys actually fighting the battles don't like your neocon forever wars anymore than I do.

No, we shouldn't support either side. I see no reason why the U.S. has to jump into every conflict all over the world and pick sides.

Killing bin Laden was not terrorism. But creating an insurgency in a foreign country to bring down its leadership is terrorism. I would certainly prefer to see a more moderate government in Iran. But if we keep poking that hornet's nest with a stick, as we are doing, we're going to get the...

If the Constitution says X and 8 out of 9 Supreme Court justices say "not X" I still go by what the Constitution says. The Constitution was written to limit the power of government, especially the federal government. I think that the authors of that document would have been shocked to find...

Trader666's Constitution says this: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts, <b>unless congress says otherwise</b>; pass any...

From what I saw of the candidate forum it was indeed much better than the usual debates. They actually gave all the candidates equal time, rather than have the journalists decide who the legitimate candidates are. What a bizarre concept!

I will grant that if you believe the wheels are really going to come off the train it would be prudent to lay in a supply of food, guns, and ammo. But it won't hurt to have some gold too.

Paper would be a lot more useful it it wasn't smeared with green ink. As for gold, it's primary function is to serve as money. Much more gold is kept in vaults as a store of value than is used in industry. Whether it's smart to buy gold at current prices is hard for me to say. I bought...

Let me see, your argument is that I'm a Nazi because I stated that strong pressure is put on congressmen to toe the Israeli line, with their funding drying up if they are not sufficiently pro Israel. Then I guess former congressman Paul Findley is a Nazi too...

So you seriously think the Iranian leadership is going to commit suicide? Because that's what handing nukes out to some rogue element amounts to. I don't trust anybody with nukes. I do not trust Pakistan. I do not trust India. I do not trust Russia. I do not trust Israel. I do not...

I want to add that in the sentence, "States shall not make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in the payment of debts" the word "make" does not refer to the manufacture of money (which states aren't allowed to do -- the federal government must mint the coins) rather "make" refers to the...

The reputable firms that do this have regular independent audits. Sure, fraud is possible. So is fraud in my checking account. Anytime you do anything with your money beyond stuffing it in your mattress you are putting your trust in some sort of financial institution. Just don't use MF Global.

If I owe a debt to the state (say, my taxes) and the state allows me to pay with federal reserve notes, the state is making that debt payable in a tender other than gold or silver coin. Article I, section 10 says they can't do that. The founding fathers were well aware of the use of paper...

Actually Article I, section 10 also says that no state shall coin money. Minting the coins is left to the federal government. According to a_person the federal government may produce fiat currency, backed by nothing at all -- MONEY THAT THE STATES CAN"T USE, as states can only use gold and...

Actually that same part of the Constitution says that states can not coin money. Article I, section 8 says that Congress shall coin the money. So the clear intent was that the federal government would mint gold and/or silver coins that would then be used as a common currency by all the states.

I think you're right. The Constitution actually requires that our money be gold or silver (Article I, section 10) but that part of the Constitution has been ignored for the better part of a century. Ron Paul is called a kook because he believes we should follow Article I, section 10, which...

Just keep repeating after me... the Democrats are the party of the little guy. Well, that's what they claim.

Me, I'd be happy to have Australia take over the job (and expense) of playing world cop. Build up that army, you Aussies!

You could keep your gold in a privately run vault. You could buy and sell the stuff electronically, without ever having to move it. Only the ownership changes. That's how the big guys buy and sell bullion right now. If an Italian bank buys gold from a Swiss bank the gold is likely to stay in...

You are a kook if you think that Iran, even if it had nuclear weapons, would give them to terrorists. Did the U.S. give nukes to the Contras? If Hezbollah fires off a nuke the entire world will treat it exactly as if Iran had set it off -- and Iran would be turned into radioactive glass...