Is the Republi-CON Plan to Destroy the Banking System and Divide the Country?

UPDATE: "We’ve always known that the modern G.O.P. wants to take America back to the way it was before the New Deal; but now it’s clear that the party wants to build a bridge to the 19th century, and maybe even to the antebellum era. Backward, march! " Read The New York Times, Abraham Lincoln, Inflationist.

"The Republican takeover of the House put a chairman's gavel in the hands of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the gadfly GOP presidential candidate with a cult following. On Wednesday, he used that gavel for the first time - to remarkable effect.

The hearing itself was lively - based on Paul's desire to abolish the Federal Reserve and bring back the gold standard - but what really stood out was Chairman Paul's leadoff witness: a Southern secessionist. "

Read the Washington Post, Ron Paul's economic Rx: a Southern secessionist.