Video: RT interview Lew Rockwell & Julie Borowski on Today's Primary + CSM: Should RP be a Super HungerGames Fan?
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Lew Rockwell: "Ron Paul already won the election"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F35AVbsFRU
Uploaded by RTAmerica on Apr 3, 2012
This year is an election year and an important topic to many Americans is the economy. On Tuesday, Maryland, Washington DC and Wisconsin will hold their primaries where voters will head to the polls to cast ballots for their GOP nominee. Although a Ron Paul nomination is unlikely, the Texas congressman still hasn't bowed out of the race. Young voters continue to show support for the candidate despite the odds and Lew Rockwell, chairman for the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, joins us to discuss what's next for Paul's campaign.
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Will Ron Paul win DC's primary?
Uploaded by RTAmerica on Apr 2, 2012
Last week Ron Paul spoke at the University of Maryland and most of his support comes from younger voters. Thousands crowded into the auditorium where Paul spoke and the Presidential hopeful anticipates that thousands will show up to Tuesday's primaries in Maryland, Washington DC and Wisconsin to support him. Although he hasn't won a state primary many are still optimistic the the Texas Congressman will claim the White House in 2012. One of those supporters is Julie Borowski, staff writer for Freedom Works, and she joins us to give us her prediction on tomorrow's primaries.
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Collins told The New York Times in a rare interview "I don’t write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents."
The Hunger Games: Should Ron Paul be a Hunger Games super fan?
The Hunger Games tells us: If you can provide for yourself, you can make it through. If it's government help you want, the price may be your very life.
By David Grant, Staff writer / April 3, 2012
WASHINGTON
If you don't know The Hunger Games, let's get you up to speed on the first part of a triptych whose first installation recently blew away every non-sequel film release in American history during its opening weekend in theaters: A reluctant, female Spartacus crashes the futuristic blood sport (think: Roman Colosseum with streaming HD video ... and hovercrafts) of a dystopian society hunkered down on the ashes of a once-prosperous North America.
To say more of this gladiator, the 16-year-old Katniss, and her quest would be to ruin the truly absorbing – if somewhat lightweight – story created by the trilogy's publicly reticent author, Suzanne Collins.
But while many have wondered about Hunger Games relationship to adolescents, war and whether adults should even bother reading the things at all, your author -- who gulped down the audiobook during a long car ride over the weekend -- was struck by another component of its prose: a strong libertarian streak.
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Suzanne Collins’s War Stories for Kids
By SUSAN DOMINUS
Published: April 8, 2011
...Collins has said that the premise for “The Hunger Games” came to her one evening when she was channel-surfing and flipped from a reality-television competition to footage from the war in Iraq. An overt critique of violence, the series makes warfare deeply personal, forcing readers to contemplate their own roles as desensitized voyeurs... Her [Collins's] grandfather was gassed in World War I, and her uncle sustained shrapnel wounds in World War II. Some of Collins’s earliest memories are of young men in uniform drilling at West Point, where her father, who later made lieutenant colonel, was on loan from the Air Force, teaching military history.
In 1968 the family moved to Indiana. It was the year Collins turned 6. It was also the year her father left to serve in Vietnam. War was a favorite topic for her father; and war, she understood at a young age, determined her family’s fate. “If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home,” she said. “As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned — but you don’t really have the words to express your concern. There’s only this continued absence.”... The lifelong repercussions of Collins’s father’s service in Vietnam also provided her with a perspective that fuels a key plot twist of “Mockingjay,” which follows one character’s struggle to recover from tortured memories of violence. (In his case, the memories are false, created by an enemy who plants them in his mind.) Collins said her father came back from Vietnam enduring “nightmares, and that lasted his whole life.” As a child, she awoke, at times, to the sound of him crying out during those painful dreams.
Five years after her father’s return, the Air Force moved the family to Brussels, where he seized every opportunity to educate his children about the region’s violent past. No monument or battlefield went unnoticed. “And this was Europe, which is one gigantic battlefield,” Collins said... In “The Hunger Games” Collins embraces her father’s impulse to educate young people about the realities of war. “If we wait too long, what kind of expectation can we have?” she said.
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[Sounds like Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games is a cautionary tale borne of her Vietnam vet father's persistently visceral military history lessons, and family field trips to various former battlefields and related stories told throughout her youth. Thank God for that!]
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