Speaking Tuesday on the United States House of Representatives floor, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) again urged Congress to exercise its constitutional responsibility by debating and voting on if the United States government will continue militarily intervening in...
Month: May 2015
Love, Visas, and Marriage in Post-Constitutional America
by Peter van Buren | May 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
The government can block your foreign husband or wife from living with you in America, based on secret information you can’t see or contest. Like with the No-Fly list, in post-Constitutional America the walls are built of secret databases. Taking Visas to the Supreme...
Sen. Bob Corker Thinks the NSA Is Collecting Too Little of Our Private Information!
by Adam Dick | May 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
United States Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) made news on Wednesday with his astounding comment that he is “shocked” by “how little data” the National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting via the US government’s mass surveillance program and with his advocacy that the program...
FBI Monitored Peaceful Demos in Baltimore with High-Tech Surveillance
by Peter van Buren | May 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
The FBI surveilled peaceful protests in Baltimore following the police killing of Freddie Gray, protest acts protected by the First Amendment, from the air, using high-tech monitoring aircraft. The surveillance aircraft can be equipped with infrared and other...
‘We the People’ Need to Circle the Wagons: The Government Is on the Warpath
by John W. Whitehead | May 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.” ― Mark Twain How many Americans...
Why is Terrorism on the Rapid Rise?
by Daniel McAdams | May 12, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Despite the 14 year US "war on terror," last year saw more terrorist attacks than ever. And most of these attacks have taken place in countries with US military presence or where US intervention was creating instability. The Ron Paul Liberty Report is joined by former...
Free Speech, Property, and Provocations
by Daniel McAdams | May 11, 2015 | The Liberty Report
After the recent shootings in Garland, TX, what are the limits of free speech and what does the First Amendment of the US Constitution really mean when it prohibits Congress from making any law restricting speech? Most of these problems could be cleared up through...
Pentagon Paid NFL Teams to Thank Troops at Games
by Robert Wenzel | May 11, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Propaganda in the fascist state can be a profitable bushiness. NJ.com is out with a detailed report that reveals the Department of Defense is paying millions of dollars to many NFL teams in what are essentially paid promotions to honor "America's heroes." When the...
NSA Spying Ruled Illegal, But Will Congress Save the Program Anyway?
by Ron Paul | May 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
This week the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the NSA’s metadata collection program was not authorized in US law. The PATRIOT Act, under which the program began, was too vague, the court found. But the truth is the Act was intended to be vague so that the...
Pinpoint Drone Attacks? There’s No Such Thing!
by Michael S. Rozeff | May 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
The effectiveness of U.S. drone attacks in killing their targets vs. missing their targets and killing innocent human beings is analyzed in fine detail in this report. It looks at multiple attempts to kill a given person. For example, there were 3 U.S. drone attacks...
Are We A Nation of Wimps?
by Ron Paul | May 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
We now live in a society where safety and security are to be sought at all costs. The sacrifice of liberty is not a concern for most Americans today. This is not something new and it has been characteristic of most people throughout history but it has gotten...
NATO War Games, NSA Spying, Yemen Dying: Week in Review with Jay Taylor and Daniel McAdams
by Daniel McAdams | May 9, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What's the latest on NATO's war games near the Russian border? Should we be cheering the recent court decision that NSA's phone collection program is illegal? US support for the Saudi attack on Yemen means starving civilians and a rise of al-Qaeda. Join RPI's Daniel...
State Department Won’t Review Clinton Ethics
by Peter van Buren | May 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
When Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State in 2009, the Obama White House required her to sign an agreement promising to have her family’s charities, under the umbrella of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI; now known as the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton...
The Real Victor of World War II in Europe
by Eric Margolis | May 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
It was churlish for western leaders to boycott this week’s Victory Parade in Moscow that commemorated the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany 70 years ago. Historic events are facts that should not be manipulated according to the latest political fashions. Being...
NSA Spying: Not ‘Authorized’ or Not Constitutional?
by Daniel McAdams | May 8, 2015 | The Liberty Report
Yesterday's ruling by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals that the NSA's bulk telephone collection program is illegal is a boost for liberty. But as the deadline to extend the PATRIOT Act looms at the end of this month, watch for Congress to actually make matters worse...
Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Two-Minute Case against Extending Expiring PATRIOT Act Provisions
by Adam Dick | May 8, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano presents this week at the Fox News website his concise, two-minute argument for the United States Congress allowing some of the most liberty-threatening PATRIOT Act provisions to expire at the end of this month. Napolitano, who packs much...
Radical Texas Marijuana Legalization Bill Passes in State House Committee
by Adam Dick | May 7, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Texas took a step toward leapfrogging past all the states that have legalized marijuana for medical and recreational use so far. In March, Texas State Rep. David Simpson introduced legislation (HB 2165) that would remove references to marijuana from the state criminal...
The Choice Before Europe
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
Washington continues to drive Europe toward one or the other of the two most likely outcomes of the orchestrated conflict with Russia. Either Europe or some European Union member government will break from Washington over the issue of Russian sanctions, thereby...
The Cold War Against Cuba Changed Us
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
During the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA made multiple attempts to assassinate Cuba’s ruler, Fidel Castro. Let’s assume that the CIA had succeeded and that Castro had been shot dead on the streets of Havana. It’s not difficult to imagine what US national-security state...
A Documentary Worthy of Ron Paul
by Daniel McAdams | May 6, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Lew Rockwell writes on his blog: Lots of documentary makers have approached Ron Paul over the years, but none measured up, until now. Why is this film different? because Charles Goyette is making it. Charles has the technical and artistic abilities, but so did some of...
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