President Trump was elected in part because he promised to reduce prices and not drag the country into foreign wars. Sadly, President Trump has adopted a tariff policy that will raise prices and abandoned his “America First” foreign policy in favor of a return to...
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Free Speech is Worth Fighting For
by Ron Paul | Mar 31, 2025 | Featured Articles
We do not have free speech to talk about the weather. Our Founders, particularly James Madison who drafted the Bill of Rights, understood that our rights are not privileges granted to us by government. No, it was understood at the founding that these basic natural...
Shut Down the Department of Education!
by Ron Paul | Mar 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s executive order from last week titled “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities” could help bring about a major step toward restoring constitutional government and improving education. The executive order directs...
President Trump: Stop Bombing Yemen and Exit the Middle East!
by Ron Paul | Mar 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
Over the weekend President Trump ordered a massive military operation against the small country of Yemen. Was Yemen in the process of attacking the United States? No. Did the President in that case go to Congress and seek a declaration of war against the country? No....
Tariffs are Theft
by Ron Paul | Mar 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
The US and China came closer to a full-fledged trade war last week when China imposed tariffs of up to 15 percent on key US agricultural exports. This was retaliation for President Trump’s increasing of tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States from 10 percent...
Suddenly, Leaving NATO is on the Table!
by Ron Paul | Mar 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
Over the weekend, President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk made quite a stir with just two words posted on his social media platform, X. Responding to a post that, “It’s time to leave NATO and the UN,” Musk replied, “I agree.” The comment...
The Federal Reserve Killed the Penny. Is MAGA Next?
by Ron Paul | Feb 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump recently issued an executive order instructing the US Mint to stop producing pennies. The reason for this is it costs nearly four cents to produce one penny. That’s right: the US government can’t even make pennies without losing money! President Trump...
Can We Really Cut Half of The Military Budget? You Bet!
by Ron Paul | Feb 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
The wailing sound you heard last Thursday was the chorus of the Beltway warmongers shrieking in despair at President Trump’s suggestion that there was no reason for the United States to be spending one trillion dollars on “defense.” “…[O]ne of the first meetings I...
The US Should Not Take Over Gaza
by Ron Paul | Feb 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
This week, President Trump upended US Middle East policy by announcing that the United States would “take over” war-ravaged Gaza and turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” President Trump also said the Palestinians living in Gaza would be (temporarily?)...
Audit USAID…Then Shut it Down!
by Ron Paul | Feb 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
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...
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...
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