Jewish student for Ron Paul; Perry is out; who’s next? [Today in New Voices]

By David A.M. Wilensky January 19, 2012

It took New Voices Associate Editor Zach C. Cohen (also recently dubbed New Voices politics correspondent as well) some time to find a Jewish student who supports Ron Paul, but our ace reporter found one. Check out his story: David Deerson went to Jewish day school, attended and worked at a Jewish summer camp and…

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Why we should sanction Iran, even though it won’t work [Parsing]

By David A.M. Wilensky January 19, 2012

I listen to NPR’s Planet Money podcast to understand basic news about the economy because it puts things simply. And because I don’t know my head from my ass when it comes to economics. But sometimes they take hard economics and deploy it as a way of looking at something in the news in a…

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Ron Paul’s biggest (Jewish student) fan

By Zach C. Cohen January 19, 2012

David Deerson went to Jewish day school, attended and worked at a Jewish summer camp and he has been to Israel multiple times. He also thinks the Jewish State might as well be in Wyoming. And he’s voting for Ron Paul in 2012.

Deerson is a regional campus coordinator for Students for Liberty, a Libertarian college activism organization, and the vice president of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill College Libertarians. His love for the limited government philosophy has made him an avid Paul supporter, but Deerson is a calmer advocate for libertarian values than his bombastic political hero.

When it comes to Israel, Deerson says his views match up completely with Paul’s.

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