Tom Woods

Let me state at the outset that I don’t believe vote fraud is the primary (so to speak) reason Ron Paul isn’t leading the pack in the race for the GOP nomination, and I think too many people have jumped from the fact that he gets lots of people at his rallies to the conclusion that only vote fraud can account for his coming in third or fourth in many states. The demographic that crushes him doesn’t attend political rallies, but these folks will vote if it’s the last thing they do.

But here is a clear-cut case. I know Bryce Steinhoff, the author of this report. The central committee people, who supported Santorum, were going to have their man win no matter what. War and the status quo on spending are too important to these people.

Steinhoff writes, “My belief is that the St. Charles Republican Central Committee had full intentions from the beginning to railroad the caucus results in favor of Santorum, the candidate most supported by the committee’s members. They were vastly outnumbered by Paul and Romney supporters at the caucus and knew they couldn’t pull out delegates without overtly breaking the rules.”

Read his whole report.

The Mises Institute just streamlined its blog, which is now tighter and more focused. Check out Circle Bastiat, a reference to the Rothbardian community of young scholars in the 1950s, which included George Reisman, Ralph Raico, Leonard Liggio, and others. Check it out!

Here’s the Peter Schiff Show from yesterday, with me as guest host. My first guest, Louis Fisher, is author of the excellent book Presidential War Power; Gary Taubes is author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It.

By economist Robert Murphy.

No, says Denise Minger.

Bruce Bartlett, the Austrian-turned-supply-sider-turned-Bush-critic-turned-Obama-voter, who has spent his career on the lookout for the next bandwagon to ride, has an article in the New York Times today calling for higher taxes on “the rich.” Yawn. Here’s his profound moral analysis of the issues involved in further expropriating Americans: “There is another very good reason to raise taxes on the ultrawealthy: the government needs the revenue.” Well, that settles it!

Tune in to the Peter Schiff Show tomorrow (Wednesday), when I’ll be filling in as host again. The show can be listened to for free during the broadcast (10am-12pm ET) at SchiffRadio.com.

Yesterday my wife was listening to local talk radio, and the subject of that guy who shot up all those women and children in Afghanistan was being discussed. The host was saying what a horrific thing this was. The callers disagreed. Our troops are under a lot of stress, they said. (Probably true, but then don’t do this in the first place.) And after all, those people flew planes into our buildings.

But these victims were just women and children, the flabbergasted host replied. Didn’t matter. They’ve never apologized for flying the planes into the buildings.

Now bear in mind, even apart from the low-IQ barbarism that runs through the whole exchange, that we are talking about people so remote from modern communications that they often do not even know 9/11 occurred. But when their kids are killed in an attack the military itself disavows, even this is not a source of grief.

If any other country showed this kind of callousness toward human life, we’d never hear the end of how awful they are, and how much more awesome the U.S. is.

Meanwhile, the alleged conservatives (you remember, the “limited-government” people) who are the quickest to defend these government employees are the same ones who lecture us about moral relativism.

Check out my co-authored volume We Who Dared to Say No to War, which develops themes like this, and if you missed this speech, have a listen:

The Nullify Now! tour is coming to Philadelphia on March 31. I’m a keynote speaker. I hope to see you there. Here are event details on the Nullify Now site, and here’s the Facebook page.