Imagine being robbed every time you receive a paycheck, but once a year getting some of the stolen money back because the thieves took more than they intended. Would you be happy about it? If you are like most Americans the answer is yes, since most people are...
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Julian Assange: Political Prisoner
by Ron Paul | Apr 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last week’s arrest of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange by the British government on a US extradition order is an attack on all of us. It is an attack on the US Constitution. It is an attack on the free press. It is an attack on free speech. It is an attack on our...
Trump Tells the Truth: Sanctions Cause People to Suffer
by Ron Paul | Apr 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
This week President Trump admitted what the Washington policy establishment of both parties would rather be kept quiet. Asked why he intervened to block a new round of sanctions on North Korea, he told the media that he believes the people of North Korea have suffered...
The Green Bad Deal
by Ron Paul | Mar 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
The recently-proposed Green New Deal is proof that climate change is for progressive Democrats what terrorism is for neoconservative Republicans: a ready-made excuse to expand government and curtail liberty. This radical plan would authorize the US government to seize...
Is Trump Really About to Attack Venezuela?
by Ron Paul | Mar 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last week Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ordered the last of the US diplomats out of Venezuela, saying their presence was a “constraint” on US policy toward the country. The wording seemed intended to convey the idea that the US is about to launch military action to...
Bipartisan Attacks on the Second Amendment
by Ron Paul | Mar 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
The House of Representatives recently passed legislation that would expand the national background check system to require almost everyone selling firearms, including private collectors who supplement their incomes by selling firearms at gun shows, to perform...
Did Bolton Blow North Korea?
by Ron Paul | Mar 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un last week was criticized by both parties in Washington long before Air Force One even touched down in Hanoi. Washington’s political class seemed terrified that the nearly 70 year state of “war” with...
Emergencies Do Not Trump the Constitution
by Ron Paul | Feb 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
After Congress rejected President Trump’s request for 5.7 billion dollars for the border wall, the president declared a national emergency at the southern border. President Trump claims this “emergency” gives him the authority to divert funds appropriated for other...
Walter Jones and the Vote to End US War on Yemen
by Ron Paul | Feb 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
In a fitting legacy for my friend Walter Jones, Jr. who passed away last week, the US House made history by voting in favor of H.J.Res. 37, a resolution “Directing the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been...
President Starts a War? Congress Yawns. Threatens to End One? Condemnation!
by Ron Paul | Feb 11, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last week’s bipartisan Senate vote to rebuke President Trump for his decision to remove troops from Syria and Afghanistan unfortunately tells us a lot about what is wrong with Washington, DC. While the two parties loudly bicker about minor issues, when it comes to...
Shut Down the TSA!
by Ron Paul | Feb 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Hard as it is to believe, airline travel recently became even more unpleasant. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees being required to work without pay for the duration of the government shutdown resulted in many TSA workers calling in sick. The...
Trump’s Venezuela Fiasco
by Ron Paul | Jan 28, 2019 | Featured Articles
Last week President Trump announced that the United States would no longer recognize Nicholas Maduro as president of Venezuela and would recognize the head of its national assembly, Jose Guaido, as president instead. US thus openly backs regime change. But what has...
Fire the Fed?
by Ron Paul | Jan 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s frustration with the Federal Reserve’s (minuscule) interest rate increases that he blames for the downturn in the stock market has reportedly led him to inquire if he has the authority to remove Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Chairman Powell has stated...
Campaign Finance Reform Helps Special Interests
by Ron Paul | Jan 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
One of the new Democratic House majority’s top priorities is so-called campaign finance reform legislation. Contrary to the claims of its supporters, campaign finance reform legislation does not limit the influence of powerful special interests. Instead, it violates...
Trump’s Neocons Reverse His Syria Withdrawal Plan
by Ron Paul | Jan 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
I’m starting to wonder whether President Trump has any power over US foreign policy at all. Many people believe that the US president is just a figurehead, with actual foreign policy firmly in the hands of the deep state. Trump’s latest dramatic U-turn on pulling...
Rough Times Ahead, But Liberty Can Still Win
by Ron Paul | Dec 31, 2018 | Featured Articles
While Congress and the president fight over funding a border wall, they continue to ignore the coming economic tsunami caused by the approximately 22 trillion dollars (and rapidly increasing) federal debt. President Trump may not be troubled by the debt’s effect on...
Troops Out of Syria and Afghanistan? That’s a Good Start!
by Ron Paul | Dec 24, 2018 | Featured Articles
We all had a big shock this week when, seemingly out of the blue, President Trump announced that he was removing US troops from Syria and would draw down half of the remaining US troops in Afghanistan. The president told us the troops were in Syria to fight ISIS and...
Why The Senate Vote to End Yemen War is So Important
by Ron Paul | Dec 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
Last week something historic happened in the US Senate. For the first time in 45 years, a chamber of the US Congress voted to pull US forces from a military conflict under the 1973 War Powers Act.While there is plenty to criticize in the War Powers Act, in this...
Too Much Partisanship in Washington? No, Too Much Bipartisanship!
by Ron Paul | Dec 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Washington is once again gripped by the specter of a government shutdown, as Congress and President Trump negotiate an end-of-year spending deal. A main issue of contention is funding for President Trump’s border wall. Sadly, but not surprisingly, neither Congress nor...
Trump Foreign Policy: Doing the Same Thing and Expecting a Different Result
by Ron Paul | Dec 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
After a week of insisting that a meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Argentina was going to happen, President Trump at the last minute sent out a Tweet explaining that due to a Russia/Ukraine dispute in the Sea of Azov he would no longer be...
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