tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post746481138869903383..comments2023-11-03T09:36:22.100-04:00Comments on In From the Cold: With Friends Like These...George Smileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07049707648660651119noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-33859438219010404682008-02-12T13:41:00.000-05:002008-02-12T13:41:00.000-05:00Ron Paul voted against MLK dayhttp://wwsword.blogs...Ron Paul voted against MLK day<BR/><BR/>http://wwsword.blogspot.com/2008/01/proof-ron-paul-voted-nay-to-mlk-day.htmlDaniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-65588217043644399632008-01-15T15:31:00.000-05:002008-01-15T15:31:00.000-05:00Of course Ron Paul wrote some of his newsletter; a...Of course Ron Paul wrote some of his newsletter; and that whatever was ghostwritten to appear to but it's just as obvious that he didn't write all of it. For example, <BR/><BR/>For example, "In Feb of 1991 the author writes that he voted against "an expensive federal holiday for this man" referring to King."<BR/><BR/>To which your source, Sultan Knish, adds: "Of course Ron Paul famously voted against recognizing MLK day as a holiday."<BR/><BR/>The problem with that is that Sultan Knish didn't check his facts, and got it wrong. According to the Politifact website:<BR/><BR/>“An examination of Paul’s record shows that [...] he has sometimes voted for programs that aren’t “expressly authorized” in the Constitution.<BR/>“For example, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he voted to authorize the continuing operation of NASA and to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday on the third Monday in January.”<BR/>http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/71/<BR/><BR/>I won't say that Sultan Knish is lying, but I will say that a site that doesn't fact-check is not a credible source.George J. Dancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17802922538748186834noreply@blogger.com