Politics

So, what do you do if your bank account stands at -$9,337,515,818,138.53? Well, if you’re the federal government, you clearly write checks for another $150 billion, just for kicks.

Money isn’t everything, but it is interesting to see a concrete picture of what would happen to the federal budget if each of the presidential candidates had their way.

Press release Full analyses

The accumulation of laws that have been passed over our nation’s history have a striking resemblance to a crufty code base:

• Dead code → Obsolete laws
• Bugs in border cases → Legal loopholes
• Patches and workarounds → Exhibit A: The AMT fiasco
• Unanticipated side-effects → Pretty much every law ever passed
• Spaghetti code → Insane cross-references which make reading some statutes almost impossible

The major difference, of course, is that most crufty code bases don’t run people’s lives.

Here’s something you don’t see every day… a picture of Ron Paul on the main politics page of CNN. Look quickly before this rare sight vanishes.

Even as a registered Republican, I believe George Bush and Dick Cheney should be impeached. This video articulates why much better than I could. If you agree, contact your senator and representative to strongly urge them to introduce or support impeachment hearings.

Early TV ad for New Hampshire…

If you are thinking about supporting Ron Paul in the Republican primary, make sure you will be able to do so. Have you registered as a Republican? Click here to find out if you need to in order to vote in your state’s Republican primary.

Some state parties allow registered independants to vote in a party primary. Unfortunately, those policies are often vague, hard to find, and could possibly be changed at the last minute. The only certain way to be able to vote for Paul in the primary is to be registered as a Republican.

One other note - if you are registered as an independant, but voted in another party’s primary (Democrat, Libertarian, etc) in the last election, it is possible your registration was automatically changed to that party. Just be aware that if that happened, you won’t be able to vote in the Republican primary.

The deadlines to change party affiliation are rapidly approaching for some states. In North Carolina, you can use this form to change affiliation. Do it before you forget.