Honest- adj., free of deceit and untruthfulness; sincere. See also Gary Johnson:

Catchy campaign slogan, eh? (Photo credit: Nick Fidel)

I remember Dr. Paul saying something like –paraphrasing– ‘we just marched in, well then we can just march out,’ when referring to Iraq in the 2008 Republican presidential primary debates. I think that same logic can be applied to Libya. Let’s get out before it turns into a bad sequel to Iraq, or as Gary Johnson would put it, “mired in the midst of a civil war to which there would be no end.”

Obama has smoked pot (and inhaled) in his life, yet in his position of power does not support legalization. Do I need to say anything more than that to demonstrate his hypocrisy? No. He’s a progressive. Progressives like big government, even in liberal issues like drugs, war, and marriage.

Check out this video from Glenn Reynolds interviewing the author of A Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism.

Found this video on C-SPAN of the New Mexico’s Governor debate from 1998. Should give all you Dueling Barstools readers a preview of what Johnson vs. Obama might look like.

Judge Napolitano recently announced that Jon Schaffer, guitarist of metal legends Iced Earth, will be on Freedom Watch on Dec. 10th.

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UPDATE: Unfortunately, Schaffer is a 9/11 Truther… but I’m not gonna hate. Iced Earth still is pretty good.

I’m a huge Gary Johnson fan. I’m the opposite when it comes to Alex Jones; I can’t stand the guy. Gary Johnson was on Alex Jones’ show recently, and basically made Gary Johnson read his looney conspiracy headlines, to make it seem as if Gary believed it. Alex would go on and on about conspiracy, and then asked Gary if he was outraged by things like body scanners or the Patriot Act. Gary would answer that he was outraged, but Jones’ rant makes it seem as if the two are interconnected.

Neither Gary Johnson nor Ron Paul believes in Jones’ ‘inside job’ insanity. They believe our militarism causes attacks inflicted upon us, and that they are unintended consequences. The whole basis of libertarianism and libertarian economics is that policies have unintended consequences. In my first post here, I went on a rant about the many holes in the logic of such looney conspiracy theorists:

I’m not a fan of Alex Jones, so it gets a little frustrating when the small handful of people that show up to liberty meetings rapidly turn it into the First Church of Alex Jones. I mean really, if the whole point of libertarianism is that our militarism creates the unintended consequences of terrorism, how can these ‘truthers’ be against our military industrial complex when they think the government ’staged’ 9/11? It doesn’t make any sense. Furthermore, if our government was able to stage the 9/11 attacks, why can’t they properly run Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, Amtrak, USPS, or the DMV? They can’t do anything right; they couldn’t even do ‘Watergate’ right. There is no government conspiracy in 9/11. It was an unintended consequence of our miltary expansion. (If they were efficient enough to do all those things, why cut government? That is the big hole in their logic…) Speaking of inefficiency, the whole reason we ignored the intel we had on the hijackers is because we are so incompetent. Judge Napolitano recently did a thing on FreedomWatch where he exposed the 9/11 commissions’ attempt to cover up their incompetence prior to 9/11, not their involvement. Enough of my anti-conspiracy rant… I’m just tired of seeing infowars ‘inside job’ stuff everywhere. BUT I would never want them to shut up about it, in fact, they should speak louder, because we live in a marketplace of ideas, so as long as we speak non-violently, it’s all good.

‘Nuff said. Gary Johnson is a level-headed, rational thinker. Why reduce our military industrial complex and military presence if our government staged 9/11? Well, they didn’t stage 9/11, our military presence around the world fed the motivation for these religious wackos in the Middle East, and thus, we should remove our military from all these places.

But in spite of all this, I still support Alex Jones’ right to speak, in fact, I think he should speak louder. Even if I think it’s all insane. That’s the beauty of Americanism: the free marketplace of ideas; the good,  the bad, and the wacko.

I think the PMRC and music censorship brought the U.S. to the edge of Communism in the non-economic/social realm, and it was lead by right-wingers. Glenn Beck often points out that progressivism (a.k.a. big government-ism) is prevalent in both the left and the right; progressive/big government left and right. None can be more true of the so-called ‘right’ of the 1980’s.
As a musician and a big Zappa fan, you can see where my disgust comes from. My dad got into bad terms with the KGB when he lived in the Soviet Union for having albums of non-approved artists. Doesn’t sound too far fetched from what the PMRC was trying to accomplish, huh?

Not to mention that the board was made up of the unelected wives of Senators, including both Al and Tipper Gore.

Take my advice with a grain of salt, but these are truly great movies. They may not be the best produced (although they are wonderfully done if you ever hear how much they are made for), but they make it up with the best gore, and also great writing (which is completely lacking from all modern horrors). These are mostly Italian directors’ movies from the 70’s and 80’s.

1. Suspiria

2. The Beyond

3. Zombie

4. Deep Red

5. Pieces

6. Horror Rises From the Tomb

7. Maniac

8. Cannibal Ferox

9. Tenebre

10. Phenomena

There are 2 great DVD companies that puts those types movies out: Grindhouse Releasing, which is owned by Sylvester Stallone’s son Sage, and Blue Underground.