While many on the left are extolling Ron Paul's anti-war stance, he is on record as opposing just about everything else this democracy stands for: environmental protection, Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare, public education, civil rights laws, laws on food and drug safety and workers’ rights.

Now that Ron Paul has made a strong showing in Iowa, the mainstream media monopoly has geared up to smear him as a “racist” and “dangerous man,” dredging up an old newsletter that was repudiated and debunked 20 years ago.

The documents, which include harsh, prejudiced attacks against the black community, are evidence of a libertarian movement trying to find an audience.

The theory of evolution. And I dont accept it as a theory. [snip] The creator that I know created us, each and every one of us and created the universe, and the precise time and manner and I just dont think were at the point where anybody has absolute proof on either side.