I would suspect that Congressman Paul’s staunch opposition to amnesty for illegals and his support for the Mexican border fence are the sources for much of the hostility from Josh Trevino.

All around, it’s an extremely disappointing post from a usually quite intelligent individual. One thing in it in particular was just silly; his accusation that Paul’s opposition to income taxation is “hostility” to the Sixteenth Amendment. The Sixteenth Amendment does not necessitate a federal tax on income but rather it simply empowers the state to do so if it so pleases. The absence of a federal income tax would not violate the amendment in any way, so it’s a wide stretch at best to call Paul’s position “hostility.”

As for his accusation that the opponents of the Kosovo debacle were cheerleaders for Milosevic, the same “logic” could be redirected against him in a farily straightforward fashion. His support for the illegal war was an “abdication of moral sense on behalf” of KLA paramiliants who’ve burned scores of churches and monasteries and thousands of Serb and Roma homes, and on behalf of NATO bombers who murdered thousands of civilians in Belgrade in an air war that NATO itself admits did almost nothing to degrade the combat capabilities of the Yugoslav military.