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Our own B.J. Lawson has announced plans to seek the Republican nomination in North Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District. Lawson was the GOP nominee in 2008 and was edged out by incumbent Democrat, Rep. David Price.

Check out Lawson’s website, which is powered by NetBoots, and follow the campaign on Twitter and Facebook. Send him a few bucks, if you can.

We hope to be chatting with him on a podcast soon.

Lately we have heard quite a bit about Barack Obama’s “spread the wealth” comment, which has given new ammunition to the McCain campaign and its supporters in accusing Obama of being “socialist”.  As accurate as it is to describe much of Obama’s platform as socialist, to have McCain accusing Obama of supporting socialism is rather like the pot calling the kettle black.

The Lawson for Congress team is hard at work, making sure that B J Lawson , aka “Ron Paul, Jr.”, gives incumbent Democrat, David Price, a run for his money.

The discussion between Dr. Lawson and Congressman Price at the TROSA forum on October 13 was an interesting one, to say the least.  The Durham Herald Sun wrote an particularly fascinating report on the discussion between the two candidates on drug-related issues:

Lawson and Price sparred over issues including health care and law enforcement, especially enforcement of drug laws.

When I started my campaign last November, the national debt was tipping the scales at $9.3 trillion. Today it is over $10.1 trillion.

To add insult to this obvious injury, our Senate and then House just passed a juiced-up bailout package that includes an additional $150 billion of random acts of fiscal irresponsibility beyond the $700 billion revolving credit line to be used by our Treasury to buy questionable assets from troubled banks.

The vast majority of Americans were against this bailout, and for good reason — it is not going to work. Economists and those who understand the banking system understand that the administration’s plan will not fix the underlying problems of trust and solvency. Instead, it simply allows our Treasury secretary to pay above-market prices for troubled assets to bailout out foreign and domestic banks. It creates no jobs, gives no significant relief to struggling homeowners, and severely threatens our sovereign credit rating.

This is just the first of 10 videos that show the debate between BJ Lawson and David Price in it’s entirety.  They are all worth watching and we can be proud of the excellent job BJ did representing the principles of truth and liberty.

You can catch the rest at BJ’s Youtube Channel.

Last night at UNC, Chapel Hill Rep. David Price and Dr. Lawson squared off in a debate, drawing a sharp contrast in their approach for the direction of our country. Dr. Lawson presented a clear and concise message to the students — restore common sense.

A video will be made available in the next day or so of the full debate, and I am confident you all will be as excited as we were last night.