There is so much talk right now about gas prices. Who’s at fault? Is it President Obama for not drilling enough? Is it OPEC for price fixing? Could it be greedy oil companies? There are many reasons being floated as to why gas prices are so high but there is one that you aren’t going [...]
We’re shutting down our website tomorrow, Wednesday, January 18th in protest of the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). This bill would give the US Justice Department broad and poorly defined new powers to invade all of our online privacy and security to clamp down on websites that host material with disputed copyrights. The bill is hotly opposed by [...]
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson and Republican candidate Ron Paul have earned top scores on the recently released 2012 Liberty Watch Candidate Report Card from the American Civil Liberties Union. Many Democrats may be surprised to find that President Barack Obama has been ranked third, by an organization many accuse of a “liberal bias”. “Barack [...]
Ron Paul has raised more than any other current presidential candidate in donations from members of the military. Of those donors who indicated their occupation and employer, Paul topped the other contenders, a distinction he also achieved during his 2008 presidential run. “Our fighting men and women take an oath to protect America, defend our [...]
Rick Perry’s presidential campaign has taken another cue from Ron Paul, launching an online video commercial called “Proven Leadership” that looks like an advertisement for a major Hollywood motion picture. These ads are often called movie trailers or previews because they are added to the beginning or ending of movies in the theater. This new theatrical style is certainly [...]
Barack Obama should “step aside” “Besides avoiding this indignity, Obama might do his party a big favor… by stepping aside and taking the blame. Then someone less reviled could replace him at the top of the ticket,” writes Editorial Board member Steve Chapman in Sunday’s edition of the Chicago Tribune. As previously reported here in The Presidency.us, [...]
Click photo to enlarge map. 2012 Electoral College Analysis While it is extremely difficult to accurately forecast 50 state elections over 13 months in the future without knowing who the Presidential nominees will be, the race essentially boils down to ten swing states: Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, New Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. In [...]
Rick Perry, 2012 candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination James Richard “Rick” Perry (born March 4, 1950) is the 47th and current Governor of Texas. A Republican, Perry was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000 when then-governor George W. Bush resigned to become President of the United [...]
Ron Paul, 2012 and 2008 candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination, 1988 Libertarian Presidential candidate Ronald Ernest “Ron” Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American medical doctor, author, Republican U.S. Congressman of the House of Representatives and candidate for the 2012 Republican Party Presidential nomination. Paul is currently the U.S. Congressman for the 14th [...]
Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States of America, served from March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809. Thomas Jefferson (April 13,1743 – July 4, 1826) was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). He was an influential Founding Father, and an exponent [...]
