"Rock Star" Minnesota Congresswoman - Cut Taxes; Abolish EPA; Repeal Fed Health Care

From Eric Dondero:

The event was the Solivita Republican Club meeting in Polk County, Florida. Republican presidential hopeful, Michele Bachmann gave a rousing speech 43 minute speech "focused almost entirely on fiscal and foreign affairs issues"

From the Orlando Sentinel, "Bachmann rocks Solivita" Aug. 27:

"We need a coalition of social conservatives, and fiscal conservatives, and national security conservatives and peace through strength conservatives, and I bet we have a couple of Tea Partiers here today too," she said. "If we work together, I will tell you, we are a team that can't be beat in 2012."

She continued:

She did not disappoint them, pledging to repeal the federal health care reform act, abolish the Environmental Protection Agency and dramatically reduce taxes on the highest tax brackets, for people she called "the job creators."

Photo credit - Allure.com

Uses the 'S' word for the very first time?

From Eric Dondero:

At a campaign event in Iowa, a local challenged Ron Paul about his views on radical Islam. Paul shot back in typical Ron Paul fashion.

From the Des Moines Register, "Paul says US intervention motivated 9/11 attacks":

“I don’t see Islam as our enemy,” Paul said. “I see that motivation is occupation and those who hate us and would like to kill us, they are motivated by our invasion of their land, the support of their dictators that they hate.”

But of particular interest to pro-defense libertarians, Paul seemingly acknowledged that Sharia Law might be a concern. Continuing:

“After 9/11, (people said) ‘Oh yeah, it’s those very bad people who hate us,’ but 15 of (the hijackers) came from Saudi Arabia,” said Paul. “One of the reasons they attacked us, is we propped up this Sharia government and the fundamentalists hated us for it.”

“That was one of the main motivations for getting your attention on why they hate us and want to kill us,” he said. “You could send 20 million people over there and all it would do is make our problems worse.”

Editor's comment - Could it be that our constant pro-defense libertarian haranguing of left-libertarians on their hypocrisy over Sharia Law might just be getting through? Even the top non-interventionist is now using the 'S' word.

PRO-DEFENSE LIBERTARIAN MOVEMENT

From Eric Dondero:

A relatively new blog - JakeFinnegan.com - has a series running called "Burkalesque Babes." Jake highlights photos of hot American actesses and musical artists. He explains:

Burkalesque babes is an ongoing series detailing just exactly what we’ll lose if Sharia law were ever to be implemented in the West.

One of his first features is Katy Perry. Ms. Perry got into a hot dispute recently when she Tweeted out her support for Israel: “My prayers are for you guys tonight, Shalom!!! Please pray with us.” For that she was called "a whore" and a "heartless lesbian," on a number of Islamist sites. She was forced to re-Tweet and retract her remarks.

But as Jake points out, regardless, do we really want to let Islamists cover up this awesome looking American chic in an ugly black bag?

Please visit Jake's website to see more hot photos of Katy, and other super-hot American Babes.

From Eric Dondero:

A move to overturn the centuries-old restriction that only naturalized US citizens can run for the presidency, perhaps?

From Roll Call:

The Federal Election Commission is showing signs that it might allow a Guyana-born American citizen to file papers and raise money to run for president of the United States.

The agency released two draft advisory opinions Friday that could permit New York lawyer Abdul Hassan to go through the initial steps to run for president.

Though, as Roll Call later notes, the FEC has yet to make a final decision on the matter.

Hassan, an NYC attorney, is denying any ties to the Obama campaign, and any motivations outside of him just being a "political junkie." He is running on a platform of selling Treasury Bonds to get rid of the national debt.

To be replaced by "Burqa Beach Babes"

From Eric Dondero:

Ah, yes, the "Arab Spring."

The Obama administration is touting their foreign policy successes in Egypt, and Libya.

Now this from AllHeadlineNews "Egypt’s Brotherhood declares war on the bikini":

Sunbathing in Alexandria may soon be a thing of the past, at least if some Egyptian Islamist politicians have their way.

Egypt's tourism industry has suffered a severe blow since the outburst of anti-regime demonstrations in January. But that did not stop the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, from demanding stricter regulations over what tourists can do and wear while visiting the country. The party is urging officials to ban skimpy swimwear and the consumption of alcohol on Egyptian streets.

"Beach tourism must take the values and norms of our society into account," Muhammad Saad Al-Katatny, secretary-general of Freedom and Justice, told Egyptian tourism officials on Monday. "We must place regulations on tourists wishing to visit Egypt, which we will announce in advance."

Note - A check of so-called "libertarian" websites who claim to support civil liberties, such as Reason, Cato.org, Radley Balko, LewRockwell.com, Daily Paul, NolanChart, et.al. shows not a one of them covering this story.

Photo - Egyptian beaches, credit - SydneyMorningHerald & Bare Naked Islam.

by Clifford F. Thies

When was the last really big one, 2005? And, for going on six years this is the best we can come up with?

Well, since Tropical Storm Irene (no longer even a Cat 1 hurricane) is what we have to work with, Mayor Bloomberg of New York has ordered the 250,000 residents of the Far Rockaway section of the city to evacuate.

Here are some photos of the people of Far Rockaway shivering with fear and desperation, trying to flee. Notice the rampant looting, the abandoned buses in the school parking lots, and the hooligan police shooting people trying to cross over the bridge.

Among those ordered to evacuate are people in hospitals and nursing homes, along with others with chronic illnesses that make it difficult or dangerous to move anywhere fast.

One news story quotes Dr. Irwin Redlener of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University. He says moving people who are ill or feeble can even cause deaths.

But, Mayor Bloomberg believes it's better to be safe than sorry.

To help people evacuate with their pets, the Metropolitan Transit Authority has relaxed rules against the bringing of animals on the subway. Exactly how this is supposed to work, I don't really know, since the subways terminate in the Bronx. Perhaps that's where FEMA, the National Guard, the blue helmets of the UN, and Paul Krugman's Space Aliens will pick them up.

Photo credit - AP

MSNBC is reporting, "Ron Paul: No FEMA response necessary":

"We should be like 1900; we should be like 1940, 1950, 1960," Paul said. "I live on the Gulf Coast; we deal with hurricanes all the time. Galveston is in my district.

"There's no magic about FEMA. They're a great contribution to deficit financing and quite frankly they don't have a penny in the bank. We should be coordinated but coordinated voluntarily with the states," Paul told NBC News. "A state can decide. We don't need somebody in Washington.

Editor's note - This is the Ron Paul we love here at Libertarian Republican: The hardline free market/limited government side. (Not the far-out foreign policy stuff.)

Republican making a Libertarian Wet Dream come true?

From Politico, via AP:

The Minnesota congresswoman told supporters at a packed sandwich shop that the corporate income tax needs to be reduced because companies are moving to other countries to save money. She was later asked by a reporter whether changes to the minimum wage should also be considered to balance the cost of labor here and overseas.

"I'm not married to anything. I'm not saying that's where I'm going to go," she said.

She did say she wants to look at all aspects of doing business, from regulations to tax codes, and will consider anything that will help create jobs. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour

Editor's comment - More evidence Republicans getting their stance straight from the Libertarian Party platform.

Solid 'B' from Cato, High ranks from Club for Growth

Excerpted, ?"Front-runner for a reason" columnist Deroy Murdock, BostonHerald.com:

His record should satisfy limited-government conservatives far more than Romney’s...

The libertarian Cato Institute’s Report Card on America’s Governors gives Perry straight Bs and Romney consistent Cs.

Cato praised Perry for introducing “a zero-based budget to force the state agencies to justify their continued existence and funding levels” and noted that he has presided over moderate increases in the Texas budget. Cato applauded Perry’s “substantial achievement:” a $6 billion property tax cut in 2004. However, Cato criticized Perry for partially offsetting this tax relief with a cigarette tax hike and a gross receipts tax on business.

Cato observed that Romney’s “first budget, presented under the cloud of a $2 billion deficit, balanced the budget with some spending cuts, but a $500 million increase in various fees was the largest component of the budget fix.” Cato also saw that Romney “proposed modest increases to the budget and line-item vetoed millions of dollars each year, only to have most of those vetoes overridden.”

On health care, the free-market Club for Growth lauds Perry for expanding managed care within Medicaid. After Perry’s lawsuit reforms, “the number of insurance companies offering medical malpractice insurance soared 650 percent.”

Editor's note - Deroy is a syndicated columnist who writes for National Review and a friend of this website.