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So soon after U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's Bay Area fundraising blitz and speech at Cal, the region will get a visit from the Paul who started it all.

Former 12-term congressman and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul will speak on "Liberty Defined: The Future of Freedom," at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, in the university theater at the California State University, East Bay campus in Hayward. Admission is free and it's open to the public, but tickets will be required and are available on a first-come, first-served basis either online or by calling the Independent Institute at (510) 632-1366, ext. 105.

Paul will do a separate, private reception and book-signing at the campus after his speech; the $75 price includes a copy of one of his books.

Ron Paul speaking to supporters at his 2012 primary night campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire. Paul will come to the Bay Area in April to speak on Liberty Defined: The Future of Freedom. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Paul also is scheduled to address the Commonwealth Club of California at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 10, at the club's offices on the second floor of 595 Market St. in San Francisco; tickets are available online or by calling the club at 415-597-6705. This event also will be followed by a book-signing.

"The father of U.S Presidential hopeful Rand Paul and former U.S Presidential candidate himself, Ron Paul, a former U.S. Congressman from Texas, will tell us why he believes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome," the club's news release says.

"He says it is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It permits people to work out their problems for themselves, build lives for themselves, take risks and accept responsibility for the results, and make their own decisions. In fact, Paul calls liberty the seed of America," the release continues. "He maintains the term "liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has almost become a mere clich. But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our daily lives? And most important, can we recognize tyranny when it is sold to us disguised as a form of liberty?"

Paul's CSU-EB appearance is sponsored by the Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies a free-market think tank at the university and by the Independent Institute, a nonprofit nonpartisan libertarian group based in Oakland. No state funds will be used to host or pay Paul.

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Hundreds of people packed Hendricks Chapel at Syracuse University to hear former presidential candidate, Ron Paul, speak.

He previously announced he will not be running for president in 2016, but he still has plenty of fans. Paul spoke about his political stances, and answers questions from the audience.

His Libertarian views attract a lot of young followers, which was clearly seen at Wednesday's event.

"His message, his word, has always been consistent. And there is no other politician, in our time, that that can be said about, as far as I'm concerned," said Jay Noone, a Ron Paul supporter.

Christopher Smith, another Ron Paul supporter, said, "His message is not dead. He's still out there spreading the message that inspired me to look at things differently. The future is still bright for the liberty movement for sure."

Paul made a previous trip to Central New York in Ithaca in 2012, drawing thousands of supporters.

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There is rift among libertarians concerning Russia and the recent annexation of Crimea. Alexander McCobin, a co-founder of the group Students for Liberty, co-authored a column for the PanAm Post claiming that Ron Paul is wrong in viewing Crimean actions as a secession.

According to the column, Pauls views are interpreted by many as wholly representative of the libertarian movement. Not so, said McCobin. There are differences of opinion among libertarians, he contended,and Paul is wrong about Crimea.

Make no mistake about it, Crimea was annexed by Russian military force at gunpoint and its supposedly democratic referendum was a farce, McCobin wrote. Besides a suspiciously high voter turnout with legitimate international observers, the referendum gave Crimeans only two choices join Russia now or later.

Only a day later, Daniel Adams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, fired back a response. Adams questioned McCobins characterization of Russian actions as an invasion.

We know what an invasion looks like it's calledshock and aweand it happened eleven years ago this month, in the U.S. illegal invasion of Iraq. It happened fifteen years ago this month over the skies of Serbia, another illegal U.S. attack, he wrote, according to Slate.com.

Students for Liberty spokesman Frederik Roeder told Buzzfeed that its important to condemn what Russias doing.

Seeming to address Adams' attack and dismissing claims that the United States was somehow at fault in the Ukraine crisis, Roeder said, In the Ukrainian case, its obviously not the U.S. government who is the aggressor but the Russian government who have invaded parts of a sovereign nation.

I think a lot of people got confused by this, including Ron Paul and some libertarians who would say, Oh, thats secession, but we did not observe a secession from Crimea, but a military annexation, he added.

While the followers of Ron Paul may believe that all of this is leading up to a war with Russia, McCobin argues that outcome is not inevitable. In his column he praised Ron Pauls son, Sen. Rand Paul, for his position.

In contrast to his father, Senator Rand Paul gets it right by condemning Russian aggression while not subscribing to hawkish calls for military intervention at the same time, he wrote. It is one thing to not intervene; it is another thing to applaud an autocrat for the sake of blaming our own government.

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The younger Pauls nationwide organization, which counts more than 200 people, includes new supporters who have previously funded more traditional Republicans, along with longtime libertarian activists. Paul, of Kentucky, has been courting Wall Street titans and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who donated to the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, attending elite conclaves in Utah and elsewhere along with other GOP hopefuls.

For the rest of this year, his national teams chief duties will be to take the lead in their respective states in planning fundraisers and meet-ups and helping Pauls Washington-based advisers get a sense of where support is solid and where its not. This is essential in key early primary battlegrounds, such as Iowa and New Hampshire, and in areas rich in GOP donors, such as Dallas and Chicago.

A national leadership team is an important step, and its a critical one for the movement going forward, said Fritz Wenzel, Pauls pollster. Rand has tremendous momentum, and the formation of this team will guide him as he gets closer to a decision and [will] serve as a foundation for a campaign.

A growing number of Republicans have started to consider presidential runs. Aides to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) are sketching out how possible bids could look and keeping tabs on donors and potential staffer members. Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.), Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former congressman Rick Santorum (Pa.), a distant runner-up to Romney in the 2012 race for the GOP nomination, have been wooing conservative leaders.

Christie, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Ohio Gov. John Kasich were in Las Vegas on Thursday to attend the spring meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition and to talk to Sheldon Adelson, a casino magnate who spent more than $92million on the 2012 campaigns.

At this early point, Paul is consistently at or near the top in polling. A CNN/ORC International survey this month found that 16percent of Republicans and independents who lean Republican were likely to support the senator, putting him at the front of the Republican field. Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.), the 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee, was second, at 15percent.

Pauls leadership team is set up as part of Rand Paul Victory, a group that pools donations. It is a joint committee that overlaps the fundraising efforts of Rand PAC, Pauls political action committee, and Rand Paul 2016, his Senate campaign, and his aides describe it as the basis for a presidential campaign.

There are people in every state who have joined Team Paul, with the money people ready to go, said Mallory Factor, a consultant and South Carolina Republican who has worked with Paul to expand the senators footprint.

Kevin Madden, a former adviser to Romney and House Republican leaders, said the development of a national network was a notable moment in pre-primary positioning.

This framework of supporters is an important building block in the architecture required to build a competitive national campaign, Madden said. What looks like just a name is often someone who knows local reporters, has a fundraising network or has an ability or history of organizing party activists.

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Ron Paul and his think tank don't want the U.S. to get embroiled in an overseas war with Russia over its recent annexation of Crimea. That's reasonable. Ron Paul and his think tank suggest that Russia didn't even invade Crimea, really. That's self-blindered hysterical conspiracy theorizin' bull semen.

Dave Weigel over at Slate has the details on a growing libertarian rift regarding how Russia got its new Black Sea appendage. To wit: Ron Paul's recent speeches have been sort of glib about what happened over there. He parroted Russian talking points, praising Crimea's "right to secede" from Ukraine in favor of the big kid on the block. (Paulie shares that perspective with white Southern secessionists here in the States, too.)

Some libertarians think Paul's argument elides a basic truth: Russia invaded Crimea on the thinnest of pretexts, then gamed the entire "self-determination" vote in Crimeawith troops, with organizers, with propagandato tip it absurdly in the Russian bear's favor.

That's all true. You don't have to want a U.S. war with Russia to recognize that Vladimir Putin pulled a greedy despotic land-grab. You can condemn another country's action and still be skeptical whether the U.S. shouldor coulddo anything to change the situation. Just because you have moral qualms about America's great-power counterparts doesn't mean you have to be a neocon.

But that's not ideologically pure, or truthery enough, for "Daniel Adams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity," who wants you to believe that Russia never invaded Crimea, or forced Crimea to vote for Russian integration! That's a neocon "conspiracy theory":

We know what an invasion looks like it's called shock and awe and it happened eleven years ago this month, in the US illegal invasion of Iraq. It happened fifteen years ago this month over the skies of Serbia, another illegal US attack.

If it had happened earlier this month in Crimea would we not have video? Everyone has cell phones these days.

Surely if the referendum had been taken at gunpoint we would have seen evidence of those on the receiving end. Or does the writer wish us to believe that the Russian military rounded up more than 80 percent of the population and forced 93% of those to vote in favor of joining Russia without having to shoot a single Crimean? That sounds like a pretty wild conspiracy theory.

This insane blather speaks to a larger problem with white-guy-dominated libertarianism: It assumes that coercive power only comes from the barrel of a gun, and not from cultural and extra-institutional pressures.

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Ron Paul endorses Birman for Congress

Former U.S. congressman and presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul endorsed Republican congressional candidate Igor Birman in his race against U.S. Rep. Dr. Ami Bera (D-Elk Grove).

Paul, a Republican from Texas, said he endorsed Birman because of the candidates understanding of civil liberties and emphasis on liberty, which is what our government is supposed to be about.

He said he was also impressed with Birmans personal story. Birman was born in Russia and immigrated to the United States as a teenager along with his parents and younger brother.

Igor Birman has seen first-hand what happens when the government takes control of every aspect of your life, he said. That experience will make him a valuable member of theHouse of Representatives and a leader for smaller government and more personal liberties.

Paul added, He understands the Constitution as well as, if not better than, people who have lived here their entire lives.

Birman, chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Elk Grove), said he appreciated receiving the endorsement.

I am absolutely thrilled that the leader of the liberty movement has endorsed our campaign, he said. Dr. Paul has inspired millions to fight to restore our federal government to its proper constitutional role.

Paul said he doesnt expect to endorse more than 10 candidates in the 2014 elections.

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