National Blog - page 172
Fact Checking the Fed
Mark Calabria, director of financial regulatory studies at the CATO Institute, fact checks some of the Federal Reserve's arguments against Audit the Fed (SPOILER ALERT: The Fed's arguments fail the fact check): With the introduction of bills in [...]
Rand Paul: Protect Property Rights and Restore Due Process
Audit the Fed is not the only pro-liberty legislation introduced by Senator Rand Paul this year. Senator Paul has also introduced the FAIR (Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act) Act (S. 255/HR 540), which forbids the government from [...]
Upcoming Event on the Search for a Monetary Constitution
Campaign for Liberty supporters in the DC-area may want to attend The Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives event "Renewing the Search for a Monetary Constitution," this Wednesday at noon at CATO's FA Hayek [...]
FEC Public Hearing
By Zac Nickerson Last Wednesday the Federal Election Commission (FEC) held a public hearing on advance notice of proposed rulemaking following the Supreme Court decision in the McCutcheon v. FEC case. Campaign for Liberty was in attendance, [...]
Dancing with Glenn Jacobs
Statists regularly mock libertarians for being "selfish" because we do not believe in spending other people's money on worthwhile causes. Instead, we spend our own money or encourage others to voluntary support charitable efforts. For [...]
Ron Paul: Is Inflation Dead?
Spoiler Alert: NO Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul put the following statement on his Facebook page in response to a Washington Post article claiming that inflation is dead: The Death of Inflation? Hardly! by Ron Paul Matt O’Brien [...]
Double Victory!
Not only was your voice heard once - it was heard twice in opposition to ObamaCare expansion in Wyoming! Today, the Wyoming House soundly defeated Amendment 3031 of the General Appropriations bill (HB0001), which puts the final nail in the [...]
What Libertarians Owe Ron Paul
Jack Hunter, writing at RARE Liberty, examines how Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul's 2008 and 2012 made libertarian ideas mainstream: It’s been eight years since Ron Paul first ran for president as a Republican. It’s worth [...]
How Many More Wars?
Last week President Obama sent Congress legislation to authorize him to use force against ISIS “and associated persons and forces” anywhere in the world for the next three years. This is a blank check for the president to start as many new [...]
Classic Ron Paul: My Plan for a Freedom President
President's Day seems like a good day to revist Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul's “ My Plan for a Freedom President”, which initially ran in the March 2011 issue of Young Americans for Liberty's Young American's Revolution: My Plan [...]