Published a few days ago in Chicago Tribune, here, and Strib carrying the feed, here.
Both links are given because Strib has a habit of keeping some things online, while other things perish into the land of dead links, and Error 404, We're sorry messages.
There are attack pieces on Ron Paul, e.g., here.
I find him unique as the single force behind wanting to hold the Fed accountable, where others have coalesced to the thought but where without him Bernanke would be even more smug and priggish and disdainful of you and I who are not big on Wall Street (yes, more of the same is possible).
I find him unique in wanting to put the sabre away instead of rattling it as the lone world superpower or whatever the hype was leading W into the wasteland of oil war and such.
I find him unique as the only one in the current GOP bunch I can take seriously as anything but a tired tool of the status quo and those overly comfortable with it. Or worse, Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann, clear and present dangers.