As of this writing, when you attempt to access the US Agency for International Development (USAID) website or social media pages you are informed that, “This site can’t be reached.” The media reports that the new Trump Administration has not only frozen USAID...
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To Make America Great Again, Separate Money and State
by Ron Paul | Jan 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
“Delivering Emergency Price Relief for American Families and Defeating the Cost-of-Living Crisis” is the title of one of the many executive orders President Trump issued in his first week back in the Oval Office. This executive order directs federal agencies to...
Can Trump Fix Our Broken Foreign Policy?
by Ron Paul | Jan 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
By the time most of you read this column, we will have a new US President. Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated for his second term today at 11:30 AM, Eastern time, and many Americans are hopeful that the disastrous foreign policy of the past four years under Biden...
2025 New Year’s Resolutions, Part Two
by Ron Paul | Jan 13, 2025 | Featured Articles
Even though we are two weeks into 2025, I want to suggest some more New Year’s resolutions. The Federal Reserve should resolve to stop enabling excessive federal spending by purchasing Treasury bonds, thus monetizing the federal debt. The Federal Reserve’s...
D.O.G.E.: End The Global Engagement Center!
by Ron Paul | Jan 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
In the book Crisis and Leviathan, libertarian thinker Robert Higgs pointed out that the state uses crises to ratchet up its power and control over citizens. With each new “crisis” – often directly or indirectly caused by the state itself - government grows and our...

2025 New Year’s Resolutions for DC, Pt. One
by Ron Paul | Dec 30, 2024 | Featured Articles
When the end of another year rolls around it is not a bad idea to think about how we might improve ourselves and perhaps even improve the lives of others given the clean slate of a New Year. Many people resolve to exercise more, eat better, spend more time with their...

End Congress’s Christmas Tradition
by Ron Paul | Dec 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
This week saw a new twist in what has become a D.C. Christmas tradition. I am not referring to the lighting of the White House Christmas tree but to passage of a “continuing resolution” (CR) funding the government and thus avoiding a Christmastime government shutdown....
What Are We Doing in Syria?
by Ron Paul | Dec 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
My first reaction to news earlier this month that the Syrian government had been overthrown was, how much did we have to do with it; how involved was the CIA; and how much is it going to cost. As with Saddam and Gaddafi before him, we know that Assad was no...
The Real Scandal of Hunter‘s Pardon
by Ron Paul | Dec 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
Politicians and pundits spent much of last week commenting on President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter for lying on a federal gun purchase form, failing to pay taxes, and any other offenses he may have committed over the past decade. Much of the controversy is...
Biden’s Parting Shot at America
by Ron Paul | Dec 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
The interim between a US presidential election and the swearing in of a new Administration has for most of our history been a non-eventful period where the outgoing Administration winds down operations and the incoming Administration ramps up new personnel before the...
Get the Government out of the Classroom
by Ron Paul | Nov 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
President-elect Trump has nominated former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon for Secretary of Education. President-elect Trump promised that, if confirmed, Mrs. McMahon would “spearhead” the effort to “send education back to the states.” This has led...
If Trump Didn’t Send Musk to Talk with the Iranians…He Should!
by Ron Paul | Nov 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
One of the most encouraging and promising things President-elect Trump said in his post-election acceptance speech was, “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars…” We all understand that campaign promises often have a short shelf life after the election is...
Make Money Free Again
by Ron Paul | Nov 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
Two days after Donald Trump became the first American since Grover Cleveland to win nonconsecutive presidential elections, the Federal Reserve announced a quarter percent cut in interest rates. Following this announcement, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell held a press...
With JD Vance and Elon Musk, Suddenly Ideas Are Back in this Campaign
by Ron Paul | Nov 4, 2024 | Featured Articles
This presidential campaign season may be one of those turning points in history for reasons good and bad. Anyone watching the one debate between the Republican and Democratic Party candidates would not have come away with the view that this was a great battle of...
Government Gaslights People about the Economy
by Ron Paul | Oct 28, 2024 | Featured Articles
Public opinion polls consistently show the economy is one of the top issues, if not the top issue, for American voters. This may strike some as odd, since official government statistics show low unemployment and declining price inflation, suggesting the Federal...
Why Should We Fight Wars for Ukraine and Israel?
by Ron Paul | Oct 21, 2024 | Featured Articles
When you take on the role of the world’s policeman, don’t be surprised when countries who cannot fight their own wars call “911.” That is exactly what is happening to the United States on two fronts and it is bankrupting our country, depleting the military that should...
Hurricane Response Proves Volunteerism is Better Than Authoritarianism
by Ron Paul | Oct 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
Following Hurricane Helene, many private helicopter pilots launched their own search and rescue missions. One would think government officials would welcome the help of these volunteers, but instead they harassed them and even threatened to arrest them! For example,...
American Neocons Get Their Iran War as Congress Sleeps
by Ron Paul | Oct 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
Over the weekend, the Commander of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), General Michael Kurilla, arrived in Israel to “coordinate” with the Israeli military and plan a military strike against Iran. Think about that for a moment: one of the highest-ranking officers in the...
Fed’s Rate Cut Helps Candidate Harris but Will Hurt President Harris (or Trump)
by Ron Paul | Sep 30, 2024 | Featured Articles
Many investors, businesses, and consumers cheered the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate cut since March of 2020. The Fed’s 50 basis points interest rate reduction was larger than many Fed watchers anticipated and was followed by suggestions that there are more...
Washington’s Ukraine Obsession is Going to Get Us All Killed!
by Ron Paul | Sep 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last week the world narrowly escaped likely nuclear destruction, as the Biden Administration considered Ukraine’s request to allow US missiles to strike deeply into Russian territory. Russian president Vladimir Putin warned, as the request was being considered, that...
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