National Blog - page 275
Outrageous!
Attorney General Eric Holder finally replied to Senator Paul's request on whether the administration believed the President could authorize a lethal drone strike on American soil. It's hard to believe this was his actual response, but then [...]
America's first entrepreneur -- George Washington
John Berlau, Senior Fellow for Finance and Access to Capital at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, commemorates Washington's birthday by highlighting a little-known facet of Washington's life: his career as an entrepreneur. Among his other [...]
Kerry Bentivolio introduces Ron Paul's Protect Small Business Act
Michigan Representative Kerry Bentivollo (MI-11) has introduced Ron Paul's Protect Small Business Jobs Act (HR 746). This common-sense legislation, first introduced by then-Representative and current Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul in [...]
FISA’s Warrantless Wiretapping Lives On
By: David Heacock On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected an initiative by a group of attorneys, journalists, and advocates to limit the expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). While the court was not directly considering [...]
Brian Doherty on what's next for the liberty movement
In case you missed it, Reason senior editor Brian Doherty, author of Ron Paul's R3VOLution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired, had a piece in the New York Times earlier this month on the future of the libertarian movement after Ron [...]
New Rand Paul bill makes sure Senators (and public) can read the bills before the vote
As most Americans were ringing in 2013, the Senate was voting on tax-and-spend "fiscal cliff" legislation, even though most senators did not even get a chance to read the bill before the vote. Bringing legislation to the floor before most [...]
Is Harry Reid Speaker?
Earlier today, the House of Representatives passed legislation renewing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). VAWA is a noble-sounding bill (who could oppose stopping violence?) that involves the federal government in areas where it has no [...]
Drone, baby, drone... If you want more terrorists
By John Watts South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham recently told a home state audience that the United States has killed over 4,700 people using drone strikes since their introduction into use. Senator Graham’s remarks drew a wide array [...]
Ron Paul Statement on Bernanke Hearing
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia- Ron Paul, Campaign for Liberty Chairman, and former Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Monetary Policy issued the following statement today regarding Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s testimony [...]
"When they came for the Raw Milk drinkers…"
C4L Chairman Ron Paul's latest "Texas Straight Talk" focuses on an ever-increasing threat: While I oppose most gun control proposals, there is one group of Americans I do believe should be disarmed: federal agents. The use of force by federal [...]