While we’re on the subject of Raping the Earth…

INTERVIEWER: What about mountaintop removal?

PAUL: I think whoever owns the property can do with the property as they wish, and if the coal company buys it from a private property owner and they want to do it, fine. The other thing I think is that I think coal gets a bad name, because I think a lot of the land apparently is quite desirable once it’s been flattened out. As I came over here from Harlan, you’ve got quite a few hills. I don’t think anybody’s going to be missing a hill or two here and there.

Hey, no problem. Randy’s patients aren’t going to be missing his lack of board certification, either.

Rand Paul on mountaintop removal: “I don’t think anyone’s going to be missing a hill or two here and there” [Crooks and Liars, via Think Progress]

While we’re drowning our sorrows over Orly’s loss in California, it turns out — there’s another:

The peculiar ideology of Sharron Angle, the Republican nominee challenging Sen. Harry Reid in Nevada, is perhaps no better illustrated than by her embrace of the patriot group Oath Keepers, whose membership of uniformed soldiers and police take an oath to refuse orders they see as unconstitutional — including enforcement of gun laws, violations of states’ sovereignty, and “any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.”

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And the Fourteenth Amendment be damned…

Paul recently suggested to a Russian TV station that the U.S. should abandon its policy of granting citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants — even if they’re born on U.S. soil…

“We’re the only country that I know that allows people to come in illegally, have a baby, and then that baby becomes a citizen. And I think that should stop also.”

Although Randy doesn’t apparently use the term, might as well start getting used to “anchor baby”, which Arizona’s Russell Pearce is using to pitch a sequel to the state’s new anti-immigrant law. Because “Born Free” only applies to lions, y’know.

Rand Paul Suggests Children Of Illegal Immigrants Should Not Be U.S. Citizens [TPM]

Rand Paul, who rushed from the operating room Tuesday to give a talk while still in his surgical duds, seems to advocate free-market doctor certification:

Rand Paul’s reputation for marching to his own drummer may extend to his medical career. The GOP Senate candidate is the founder and president of a certifying board for eye doctors, which he appears to have set up as a rival to the existing certification board. But his organization has left little public record, and the legitimacy with which it’s viewed remains unclear at best.

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“Rand Paul has reshuffled staff and replaced campaign manager David Adams in the wake of last week’s Civil Rights Act blow-up. The new campaign manager: Jesse Benton, the communications director for Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Tex.) 2008 presidential bid… Benton, who married one of Ron Paul’s granddaughters in 2008…” [Dave Weigel/WaPo]

Lest this gets buried in another thread, let’s call up SFL’s tip for everyone’s amusement. Serial shoe-ingester Rand Paul provided another live demonstration of his foot-consuming prowess on ABC this morning, telling The Littlest Clintonista that preventable industrial catastrophes are just God’s way of making life more interesting:

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“A spokesman for Rand Paul just clarified to me that the candidate does, in fact, believe that the Federal government should have the power to ban private businesses from discriminating based on race.” [Plum Line, via TPM]