Rand Paul Reveals The Biggest Threat To The Economy: Vintage Interview
From the archives of PrisonPlanet.tv. In 2009 Rand Paul was campaigning for his eventual Kentucky Senate seat in Austin Texas. He sat down with Infowars.com for a one on one interview that...
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Elizabeth Warren Trolls Rand Paul #39;s #39;Mental Disorders #39; During Senate Vaccine Hearing
Elizabeth Warren Trolls Rand Paul #39;s #39;Mental Disorders #39; During Senate Vaccine Hearing Mediaite) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) used her seat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions...
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Rand Paul attempts to clarify his vaccine position
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, denies he #39;s switched positions on vaccines, discusses his thinking on the 2016 presidential race, and sticks to his libertarian guns on net neutrality.
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I have a biology degree, okay?
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky), remarks at the Lincoln Labs Reboot Congress conference, Feb. 12, 2015
We first spotted a version of this quote in a Bloomberg column by David Weigel, and then checked the quotes with our colleague Jose DelReal, who had attended the conference.
This is a bit of an odd one, given that Paul does not have a college undergraduate degree.
Paul mentioned his alleged degree at the conference not once, but twice. First, in an exchange with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, Paul said:
Arrington: Lets talk about economics because maybe you can actually explain this to me. I have an econ degree which means I know just enough not to understand any of what our government is [inaudible]
Paul: Mines in biology and English so this is going to be a great conversation.
Then, later in the conversation, expounding on what he considered the virtues of Bitcoin, Paul said:
This is just me. I have a biology degree, okay? But with Bitcoin my concern always was whether or not something has real value. So I could imagine a kind of coin that was exchangeable. This gets back to the whole idea, does money have to be exchangeable for something to be of value?
The interesting thing about these references is that previously Pauls staff has blamed the media for misunderstanding his unusual educational background.
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Fact Checker: Rand Pauls claim twice in one day that he has a biology degree
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, had another chance to defend his recent comments about vaccinations Thursday, although he wasn't necessarily hoping to revisit the topic.
"Thanks for not getting into vaccines, I'm glad we agreed beforehand not to get into vaccines," Paul said to his interviewer, TechCruch's Michael Arrington, who asked Paul about vaccines at the top of his Q&A.
The vaccine debate has "an easy answer," Paul said, but "when I gave the easy answer people went crazy, because they didn't understand what the debate was about. I'm not promoting any change to vaccine law, the current vaccine law has religious exemptions and philosophic exemptions, so those who jumped all over on me on this need to stand up and say what they're for. They asked the president, 'Are you for a new federal law holding people down and vaccinating them?' He's not, neither is anybody else who's been giving me a lot of grief over this, and neither am I for changing the rules either."
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Paul's comments came at a gathering of tech-minded conservatives and Libertarians, the Reboot Congress conference, so naturally, he was also asked about the impending open internet rules. Paul opposes FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's net neutrality plan and argued that banning paid prioritization -- allowing companies to pay for faster internet delivery speed -- might not be such a great idea.
"So this is an economic fact, that bulk supply, bulk contracts get different contracts. The interesting thing though is, without any regulation for 20 years on the internet, with all the fear that there might be some bulk pricing, i think there's very little evidence that it exists today."
And Paul was forthright where he is on running for president. "I would say I'm about as direct as anybody on this. We are thinking very strongly about it, we do travel everywhere with the intention of putting the message out to see if it resonates," he said.
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