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This Week in Congress
Happy New Year! Congress has returned! Because we did not have the opportunity to post a this week in Congress preview, we will do a wrap-up. The big event of the week was a resolution (H.Con.Res. 83) introduced under the War Powers Act [...]
Why I Don't Trust Trump on Iran
President Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told us the US had to assassinate Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani last week because he was planning “Imminent attacks” on US citizens. I don’t believe them. Why not? Because Trump and the [...]
And Now: The Airing of Grievances. . .
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) celebrated Festivus, the “holiday” created by Seinfeld’s Frank Costanza, by airing his grievances in the form of a year-end edition of his Waste Report. Among the examples of wasteful spending that make Senator [...]
This Week in Congress Wrap Up
The House passed H.R. 1865, the omnibus containing the Labor-Health and Human Services-Education, Agriculture, Energy and Water Development, Interior-Environment, Legislative Branch, Military Construction-Veterans Affairs, State-Foreign [...]
The Great Ron Paul
Looking for a last-minute stocking stuffer for a liberty-minded friend or relative? Or are you already thinking of how you’re going to spend that Amazon gift card you get every year from friends and family who know your second favorite thing to [...]
Ron Paul on the FBI’s refusal to say whether it spied on Campaign for Liberty
Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul issued a statement regarding recent revelations that the FBI has potentially been spying on domestic organizations, including Campaign for Liberty. CATO Institute scholar Patrick Eddington submitted a [...]
Should Racists Get Health Care?
Political correctness recently took a dangerous turn in the United Kingdom when the North Bristol National Health Service Trust announced that hospital patients who use offensive, racist, or sexist language will cease receiving medical care as [...]
How Congress and the Federal Reserve Stole Christmas
The bickering over impeachment did not stop the president and Congress from coming together last week to avert a government shutdown by passing a 1.4 trillion dollar spending package. The bipartisan agreement has something for everyone — a [...]
Thank you for helping to stop Medical IDs!
One of the few good provisions in the massive spending bill that passed the House on Tuesday and will be voted on by the Senate today or tomorrow is that it contains the ban on Unique Patient Identifiers. The ban has been in place for over [...]
This Week in Congress
It’s the last week of the first session of the 116th Congress. The Senate came in yesterday to start working on the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Following the NDAA, the next major item on the Senate’s agenda will be the [...]