Rand Paul’s Pandering On Ferguson Foolish—And Unlibertarian
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With his comments condemning “racial disparities” fueling riots in Ferguson, Senator Rand Paul isn't the equivalent of Obama—he’s something worse.
Paul has been trying to position himself as a Main Stream Media-friendly defender of racial orthodoxy for some time now. When hecame out in favor of the Amnesty/Immigration Surge in 2013, Paulspoke before the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and praisedBolivian math teacher Jaime Escalante as a model of Hispanic immigrant values in education. It turned out that Paul’s speechwriters plagiarized the Wikipedia page of the movie Stand and Deliver. [Rand Paul has given speeches plagiarized from Wikipedia before, by Andrew Kaczynski, Buzzfeed, October 29, 2013] Of course, had they taken the time to read the “historical accuracy” section of the film’s Wikipedia page, they would have learned that his students most likely cheated on their calculus exam.
Similarly, Rand Paul’s latest genuflection to the Left—an article inTime Magazine on the police shooting of Michael Brown and resulting black riots—comes close to plagiarizing Barack Obama’s comments on Trayvon Martin. ...
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