Former Texas Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, the crazy uncle of American politics, with some of his young acolytes at this weekend’s Manning Centre “Big Ideas” conference. Below: anti-medicare crusader Dr. Brian Day, a sign directing conferees to advice on how to sell their kidneys, and Mr. Manning himself.
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You can’t take an organization too seriously that hires Ron Paul to deliver the keynote address at its annual Big Conservative Ideas blowout, features speeches on “U.K. independence” and presenters who compare medicare to barbed wire and machine guns, and has breakout rooms where they’ll teach you how sell a kidney.
All these things and more happened at the Manning Centre for (sic) Building Democracy conference last weekend in the nation’s capital.
Still, it doesn’t pay just to ignore what went on there either – although the really interesting stuff, it goes without saying, doesn’t happen in . . . → Read More: Alberta Diary: Is the right-wing Manning Centre plotting ‘Manchurian Municipal Candidates’?
