Did you read Paul Krugman’s latest column in the New York Times?

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Of course, for ANY reliable news one has to go to Applied Mathematics Harvard PhD and Ron Paul supporter Iris Mack:

Two networks yesterday, CNBC and MSNBC, broadcast a little known fact – Ron Paul appears to be winning the Republican nomination for President. When the popular Texas Congressman repeatedly assured supporters that the race was about delegates, not beauty contests, he apparently knew what he was talking about. Now, after three more states locked in delegates to the GOP nominating convention – CO, MN and IA – indicators point to a brokered convention with a possible, even probable, Ron Paul victory.

I’m sure Dr. Mack has run her quantitative analyses (as she likely did when she tackled Harvard’s “frightening” investments), but at least one of your editors is doubtful about such grandiose statements.

It is now likely, though, that Ron Paul will get the plurality in five states needed to appear on the ballot at the convention.  Frankly, I just wish the campaign and pseudo-associated Super PACs would spend money on the Ron Paul video game:

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Don’t get me wrong, I like the Ron Paul action figure with pocket constitution, but kids nowadays like dem games.

But since strict constitutionalist, libertarian, and anti-onerous intellectual property regime Ron Paul sued the unknown makers of the “China Jon” video for a trademark violation, I wonder if Ron Paul will take any action against the makers of the video game and action figures, especially since these two are actually used in commerce (or likely will be).  Let’s hope that they are not libelous in some way  (imagine the Ron Paul action figure praising Keynes!), or libertarian Ron Paul might also sue for common law libel and defamation, a cornerstone of libertarian thought.

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If the establishment had its way, there would only be one Republican left in this race – and the National Convention would just be a massive rally for Mitt Romney.

There would be no talk about individual liberty.  No mention of trillion-dollar deficits, real spending cuts, and the out-of-control Federal Reserve.

And there would be no questioning the cost of utopian nation-building schemes or policing the world.

But thanks to your hard work and dedication to the cause of liberty, the establishment isn’t getting its way.

Not this time.

I’m planning to take my campaign to Restore America NOW all the way to Tampa, Florida, for the Republican National Convention.

But to do so, my campaign must have the funds to continue picking up delegates all across the country.

So can I count on you to help me fight all the way to the National Convention bypledging to make a generous contribution to my campaign’s Money Bomb on April 15?

So far, my campaign’s delegate strategy has paid off.

Dedicated supporters of mine have been turning out at their local caucuses and conventions to run as delegates to their Congressional District or State Conventions – where National Delegates will be elected.

It’s these delegates who will choose the Republican nominee at the National Convention in August.

That’s why it’s absolutely crucial my campaign has the funds to continue organizing and winning delegates in many states around the country.

And there are also important primaries in Texas and California coming up where hundreds of delegates will be up for grabs.

That’s why I’m counting on you to pledge to contribute to my campaign’s Money Bomb on April 15.

You and I have fought tooth and nail against the establishment for nearly an entire year now.

And the most important battles are happening right now.

So please, help me take my campaign to Restore America NOW to the Republican National Convention by pledging to make a generous contribution to my upcoming April 15 Money Bomb.

Let’s take our fight all the way to Tampa.

For Liberty,

Ron Paul

P.S. My campaign is holding a Money Bomb on April 15.

With the Republican National Convention fast approaching, my campaign must have the funds to continue winning delegates in many states all over the country.

So please pledge to contribute to my Money Bomb on April 15 to help me take our fight all the way to Tampa!

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FTL may mean one of two things: “faster than light” or “for the lose.”  I am going to guess that since this likely has to do bandwidth usage, it is the latter.

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Ron Paul would be proud.

One of your editors flew out of SFO on Thursday and had a chance to visit the Yoga room.  How was the experience, you ask? Well, the pictures speak for themselves.  Please note that the lights for the $15,000-$20,000 room went on and off at random intervals:

The light shows the way

Jackpot

Rules are meant to be respected...

...so I respect

$15,000-$20,000 at work

And I head for the exit

P.S.:  No one bothered me as I was taking the pictures inside and outside of the room, even though I was next to the security checkpoints, looked young and somewhat middle-easternish, and only had a backpack on me.  AMERICA!

P.P.S.: The plane from SFO to LAX was over 20 minutes late thanks to Obama Jam.

P.P.P.S.: No Yogic Flying, sadly.

Man, those Occupy Wall Street people just keep getting bad news.

When I asked my dad about the comments Chavez gave that he will probably begin to lose his hair as a result of the chemotherapy, my dad replied, “He’ll just shave it off.”

I am putting this out there so it will be time stamped.  If this is ever proven true, I am expecting my dad to get a column in the New York Times adjacent to Paul Krugman’s musings.

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UPDATE:

Thanksgiving Dinner conversation:

Me:  ”So, do you still think Chavez’s cancer is fake?”

Him: …

Me: …

Him: No.

Case closed.

They say “the Yahoo deal is compelling for AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong, who believes he can do a better job running a combined company.”

O rly? Because it just happened to strike me that three out of eight words on the headline refer to big, obsolete corporate clunkers, each one amounting to less than the sum of its parts. Throwing more random shit together will work this time.

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Case in point: Almost 80% of NFL players near bankruptcy two years after they retire.

I guess if you’re going to have a military, you should teach your soldiers about the rules of war, somehow… But PowerPoint? Really?

One imagines that in the original .ppt version, these bullet points (pun intended?) “Civilians!” “Medical personnel!” and “Prisoners!” would fly in from the right side of the slide, with that car-zooming-and-screeching-to-halt sound effect.

Perhaps the excessive use of PowerPoint is the real war crime here…

Breitbart’s not done yet.  He is having so much fun he now wants to take down the “institutional left,” and he believes this will happen “within the next three weeks”:

He might be referring to his appearance on former Congressman (and radio personality!) Ernest Istook’s Harvard Institute of Politics study group, “Propaganda in American Politics.”  Breitbart is scheduled to be a guest speaker next week, which falls within the deadline he gave on a Fox News show that attracts more viewers at 3AM than CNN at 8PM.

This is a must-not-miss event.  What better way to take down the institutional left than to corrupt influence the minds of young Harvard intellectuals who will lead the institutions?  It worked for Peggy Noonan.

(EDIT:  Didn’t happen.  Some anti-global warming guy came instead.  The institutional left survives.)

[Media Matters via Gawker]