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Donating just to bug the establishment

Donating just to bug the establishment

National Review—I can vaguely, hazily recall that this publication has some doubts about the merit of the crusading leviathan state—is throughly disgusted that Ron Paul raised $4.2 million in 24 hours online. It proves that we need not be “impressed by anybody able to gather cash over the net.” It only demonstrates “that lot of people will donate money just to extend a middle finger to the establishment”...and we can’t have that!

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