National Blog - page 141
Why Hasn't Bernie Sanders Cosponsored Audit the Fed?
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been making headlines recently for his criticism of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve. From The New York Times: We also need transparency. Too much of the Fed’s business is conducted in secret, [...]
RON PAUL: Purism is Practical
Those who advocate ending, instead of reforming, the welfare-warfare state are often accused of being “impractical.” Some of the harshest criticisms come from libertarians who claim that advocates of “purism” forgo opportunities to make [...]
RON PAUL: What Are The Chances For Peace in 2016?
Each year more than one trillion dollars goes up in smoke. More accurately, it is stolen from the middle and working classes and shipped off to the one percent. I am talking about the massive yearly bill to maintain the US empire. Washington’s [...]
Santa versus the Bureaucrats
Children around the world are being extra-good this week, hoping there is still time to make Santa's nice list. According to Dr. Merrill Mathews, writing at Rare Liberty, these children should be glad that Santa's workshop is not in the United [...]
Senate Vote on Audit the Fed Scheduled for January 12th
The Senate will vote on Ron Paul's Audit the Fed bill (S.2232) on January 12th. As reported by the Wall Street Journal: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) scheduled a vote for next month on legislation known as “Audit the Fed,” [...]
Will TSA force you to be nuked...or will it let you fly at all?
It seems hard to believe that the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) could be even more tyrannical, after all this is the agency that once stole a stuffed animal from a girl in a wheelchair and made her cry "I don't want to go to Disney [...]
Congress makes it a Merry Christmas for IMF plus Classic Ron Paul
Burred deep in the Ominbus spending bill that Congress passed two weeks ago is a provision increasing US Goverment's (Taxpayer's) commitment to the International Monetary Fund by $56.7 billion, which doubles the US's commitment to this [...]
RON PAUL: Do We Need the Fed?
Stocks rose Wednesday following the Federal Reserve’s announcement of the first interest rate increase since 2006. However, stocks fell just two days later. One reason the positive reaction to the Fed’s announcement did not last long is [...]
Ron Paul: Do we need the Fed?
SPOILER ALERT: NO Here is Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul's Texas Strait Talk on on the Federal Reserve's announcement that they are raising interest rates. Dr. Paul also talks about last Friday's announcement that the Senate will hold [...]
82 years after Prohibition, government still addicted to telling us what to do
December 5 is the anniversary of the ratification of the 21st amendment which repealed federal prohibition of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition was ushered in by the 18th amendment, since back then people understood that a Constitutional [...]