National Blog - page 161
Rand Paul: What You Discuss on Your Phone Is None of the Government’s Business
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has an op-ed in Time magazine about how the recent court ruling on the NSA's illegal metadata collection. The full thing is worth a read here. The three judge panel slams the overreach of the NSA’s limitless metadata [...]
Food Freedom Victory in Wyoming!
This March, food freedom activists scored a major victory with the passage of the "Wyoming Food Freedom Act." This bill legalizes direct-to-consumer food sales and forbids government officials from imposing any "licensure, permitting, [...]
Leftists economists admit Fed causes income inequality
Economists Gerald Epstein and Juan Antonio Montecino have produced two papers for "The Institute for New Economic Thinking"-- "Have Large Scale Asset Purchases Increased Bank Profits?" and the forthcoming, " The Impact of 'Quantitative Easing' on [...]
Campaign for Liberty calls out UN on Press Freedom hypocrisy
Sunday was United Nation's "World Press Freedom Day." While calling attention to the importance of press freedom is an important and worthy activity, the United Nations presuming to lecture the rest of the world about press freedom is about as [...]
Ron Paul: USA FREEDOM Act: Just Another Word for Lost Liberty
Apologists for the National Security Agency (NSA) point to the arrest of David Coleman Headley as an example of how warrantless mass surveillance is necessary to catch terrorists. Headley played a major role in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack [...]
Thomas Massie: End double-taxation of seniors (plus classic Ron Paul!)
Audit the Fed and legalizing raw milk are not the only issues championed by Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul. Congressman Massie has also introduced the Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act (H.R. 589). As the name suggests, HR 589 repeals [...]
Ron Paul Ends Relationship with Voices of Liberty to Start New Venture
C4L Chairman Ron Paul announced yesterday that he was ending his relationship with Voices of Liberty and the Ron Paul Channel and starting his own new venture. Watch the announcement below:
Stupidest gun control idea ever?
Representative Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) has introduced HR 1745, legislation that would provide a $2,000 tax credit for anyone who turns in an "assault weapon" to government...because getting guns out of the hands of private citizens and into the [...]
What did the USA FREEDOM Act Mark-Up have in common with WrestleMania?
The outcome of both was "pre-determined"..... Last Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee marked up the "USA Freedom Act," the phony PATRIOT Act Reform bill. While Campaign for Liberty did oppose the bill, we supported two amendments, one [...]
Watch: Ron Paul Discusses the Patriot Act with Norm Singleton
Norm Singleton discusses the latest on the Patriot Act extension with C4L Chairman Ron Paul;