From Eric Dondero:

Former writer for the communist The Nation magazine, currently with the hard Left Politics Daily David Corn accuses Rand Paul this morning of being an "extremist libertarian." He slams Paul for taking a laissez faire approach to the coal mining industry. From Politics Daily - Deep Background, "Rand Paul in Kentucky: Campaign 2010's Most Important Senate Contest":

As reported by Details magazine, Paul, while campaigning recently in Kentucky's coal country, maintained that there should be no federal regulation of the mining industry: "If you don't live here, it's none of your business." Asked about the Big Branch mining disaster in West Virginia, where an explosion killed 29 miners last April, Paul said,

Is there a certain amount of accidents and unfortunate things that do happen, no matter what the regulations are? The bottom line is I'm not an expert, so don't give me the power in Washington to be making rules. You live here, and you have to work in the mines. You'd try to make good rules to protect your people here. If you don't, I'm thinking that no one will apply for those jobs.

Then Corn calls Paul's pro-freedom views "outlandish."

In Nevada, Sharron Angle, who has called for abolishing the departments of Energy and Education and the EPA, appears to be losing credibility and is slipping in the polls. But Rand is running strong--despite his libertarian extremism and steady string of outlandish remarks. That makes the race in Kentucky the most significant Senate face-off of this electoral season. If he wins, it will signal the power of know-nothing tea partyism.