National Blog - page 151
RON PAUL: Real Education Reform Leaves the Government Behind
Among the items awaiting Congress when it returns from its August break is reconciling competing House and Senate bills reauthorizing No Child Left Behind. These bills passed early this spring. Each bill is being marketed as a huge step toward [...]
TSA standard operating proecure, sexual asusalt, or both?
British pop star Morrisey is suing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for sexual assault. The alleged assault occurred when Morrisey was going through security checks before a flight to London. Morrisey claims that two British [...]
Classic Ron Paul: Cut Taxes on Tips!
During his years in Congress, Campaign for Liberty Chair Ron Paul worked to reduce taxes on working Americans. One of Dr. Paul's most notable initiatives in this area was his legislation to reduce taxes on tips. I was reminded of this when I [...]
Ron Paul on Hardball
C4L Chairman Ron Paul was on Hardball with Chris Matthews last night discussing his new book, Swords Into Plowshares
Politics Is Not the Path to Pro-Life Victory
During my time in Congress, I regularly introduced legislation forbidding organizations that perform abortions from receiving federal funding. The US Government should not force taxpayers to subsidize an activity they believe is murder. Thus, [...]
Campaign for Liberty to FCC: leave our phone records alone!
Campaign for Liberty has joined a collation of organizations from across the political spectrum on a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Th letter requests that the agency repeal its regulation that forces telephone [...]
The Federal Reserve & the War on Drugs
By Danny Lewis The Federal Reserve is now taking part in the drug war. The Kansas City Federal Reserve is bullying Colorado’s Fourth Corner Credit Union which serves the interests of legal marijuana and hemp industries in the state. An [...]
Central Banking is the Health of the (Warfare) State
My old colleague, Paul-Martin Foss, founder and President of the Carl Menger Center for the Study of Money and Banking, has a review of Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul's important new antiwar manifesto, Swords into Plowshares. [...]
Does the Fed really value its secrecy?
For an institution fanatically devoted to keeping the American people in the dark about its operations, the Federal Reserve does a remarkably poor job of preventing leaks. The most recent leak occurred in June when economic [...]
WATCH: Ron Paul Responds to Paul Krugman
Watch Dr. Paul respond to Paul Krugman on economic policy.: