"I am endorsing, you know, peace and prosperity and individual liberty, the Constitution, and I'm more intense on that than I am on the politics of it." — Ron Paul at the GOP Convention, Tampa, FL 2012

As an anarcho-capitalist it is difficult for me to watch the election year shenanigans.  But, it is still hard not to watch, like a car wreck, as Ron Paul supporters got the cold shoulder and the message. The Republican Party played some awfully dirty pool. Now the Ron Paul supporters have done the only sensible thing. They’ve taken their ball and gone home.

[Editor's Note: The following post is by Jim Karger, TDV Legal Correspondent]

Hello from Asuncion, Paraguay,

Both Ken Johnson of TDV Passports and I have spent the week in Paraguay. I’ve been here before and still call it an unknown jewel as far as places to visit. No one seems to know about Paraguay or even to have heard of it. Paraguay is similar to Mexico in terms of personal freedoms and a wide variety of incredibly excellent restaurants, bars and hotels. Paraguay, however, is an even better bargain than Mexico.

[Editor's Note: the following post is by our Mexican-based TDV Education Correspondent, Jorge Gato]

Morris Berman is a prolific writer on the social decline of the American Colossus and a fellow expat to Mexico. In Dark Ages America and Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline, he details the sordid mess the empire finds itself in. His conclusion is true;  there will be no happy ending. At least, not for the indoctrinated, self-centered, materialist masses who failed to note the writing on the wall.