Disclaimer: Then-Vice President Al Gore awarded my State Department team in Seoul in the mid-90’s a Hammer Award for helping “reinvent government.” Gore was in charge of the Clinton-era plan to create a government that costs less and works better. The plan mostly...
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Taking Rights Seriously
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion,and only one person were of the contrary opinion,Mankind would be no more justifiedIn silencing that one person,Than he, if he had the power,Would be justified in silencing mankind.” -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The...
NATO: The Case To Get Out Now
by David Stockman | Mar 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
See David Stockman in person at the Ron Paul Institute's Spring Conference! The case for getting out of NATO encompasses four fundamental propositions: First, the Federal budget has become a self-fueling fiscal doomsday machine, even as the Fed has run out of capacity...
Starmer’s Summit Gives Birth To A Mouse – It’s Stillborn.
by Moon of Alabama | Mar 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
A mountain was in labour, uttering immense groans,and on earth there was very great expectation.But it gave birth to a mouse. This has been written for you,who, though you threaten great things, accomplish nothing." Sundays meeting of selected European leaders in...
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...
Who Really Provoked the Ukraine War? Was It Russia?
by David Rehak | Mar 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
Ukrainian “president” Vladimir Zelensky lied when he called Russia the aggressor. Since 2014 his military forces have been shelling their own civilians in the east of Ukraine, killing at least 14,000 people and arresting thousands more with the SBU, the Ukrainian...
The Press Falls to Another Record Low in Public Trust
by Jonathan Turley | Mar 1, 2025 | Featured Articles
We have previously discussed polling showing the media at record lows in public trust. Well, the latest survey from Gallup shows that the media hit another all-time low. What is most impressive is that plummeting readers, revenues, and layoffs have done...
NATO Is the Big Obstacle to Peace in Ukraine
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 28, 2025 | Featured Articles
During his recent campaign for president, Donald Trump repeatedly stated that he had a secret plan for settling the war in Ukraine. He suggested that he would be able to resolve the conflict within a day of so of taking office. That obviously was political hyperbole...
Who Is Lew Rockwell?
by Norman Singleton | Feb 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
This summary of Lew Rockwell’s contributions to the liberty movement will show that Lew has done more to spread libertarian ideas than anyone else not named Ron Paul. Lew was born in Boston in 1944. His father was an “Old Right” Republican who gave Lew a copy of Henry...
America as Republic, Not as Empire – Europe’s ‘Sound and Fury’ After Jaw-Dropping Pivots in US Policy
by Alastair Crooke | Feb 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
The bits are falling into a distinct pattern – a pre-prepared pattern. Defence Secretary Hegseth at the Munich Security Conference gave us four “noes”: No to Ukraine in NATO; No to a return to pre-2014 borders; No to “Article 5” peacekeeper backstops, and “No” to US...
Donald Trump and Government by Experts
by Andrew P. Napolitano | Feb 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
I have often thought that after Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson was our worst president. By worst is meant least faithful to the Constitution and most destructive of personal liberty. With the exception of Lincoln’s dictatorship -- during which the federal government...
Tough Times at Foggy Bottom
by Peter van Buren | Feb 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
The DOGE tsunami is about to strike the U.S. Department of State, as well as other agencies. Let’s see what that means. The day the music died was January 28, when nearly everyone at State, along with over two million other federal civilian employees, received...
Trump Is Right – Cut Everything, Even Bloated Defense Budget
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Feb 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
Don't miss John Duncan, Jr. at the Ron Paul Institute Spring Conference! President Trump made a very strong statement on Feb. 13 which will be revolutionary in nature if he can carry it out. He said there is no reason that we should be spending a trillion dollars a...
Silenced and Seized: How Ukraine’s War, Gaza’s Land Grab, and Europe’s Free Speech Assault Are Fueling a Global Fight for Liberty
by Kurt Wallace | Feb 26, 2025 | Featured Articles
In this episode I’m joined by Daniel McAdams, director of the Ron Paul Institute and co-host of the Ron Paul Liberty Report, we dissect three seismic issues shaking the globe: the war in Ukraine, speculative land grabs in Gaza, and Europe’s escalating assault on free...
Trump and Europe Fail to Realize that Russia Has a Vote
by Larry C. Johnson | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
I think Trump is sincere in wanting to broker a peace deal with Russia, but I do not think he has grasped the fact that Russia has no desire to end the war with Ukraine until it is defeated, along with NATO, or the United States accepts the conditions President Putin...
Sacrificing Truth on Leviathan’s Altar
by James Bovard | Feb 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
Last Sunday, 60 Minutes featured tyrannical German prosecutors boasting about persecuting private citizens who made comments that officialdom disapproved. Three prosecutors explained how the government was entitled to launch pre-dawn raids and lock up...
Is It Foreign Aid or Covert Action?
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 24, 2025 | Featured Articles
There has been considerable controversy surrounding the Trump administration decision to cutback on government agencies that are ostensibly committed to charitable, educational and other nation building activities both overseas and in the United States. This spending,...
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...
Fire the Washington War Party
by Eric Margolis | Feb 22, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump gets a lot of things wrong. Chief among them is his crazy plan to ethnically cleanse two million Palestinians from the smoking ruins of Gaza. But he also gets some very important things very right. Trump managed to end the longest war in US...
Is Trump Risking His Life with Russia and Ukraine?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 21, 2025 | Featured Articles
If you want to get a sense of what President Kennedy was up against with his Peace Speech at American University a few months before he was taken out, just look at the reaction to President Trump’s friendly overtures toward Russia in the last few days. The mainstream...
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