National Blog - page 39
Not a normal year
In any other “normal” year, many of us would be gathering with family and friends this weekend to celebrate the Easter holiday.But this is anything but a normal year. Back in 1916, the Irish chose Easter as a time to rise up [...]
It isn’t different this time . . . it’s worse
On Friday, March 27, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of the huge $2.2 TRILLION coronavirus bailout bill, and President Trump immediately signed it. And with the calamity of the stock market over the past few weeks and all the [...]
Like Freedom? Then You Won’t Like the FREEDOM Act
Last Monday, a bipartisan group of Senators and a coalition including libertarian and progressive activists thwarted a scheme to ram through the Senate legislation renewing three provisions of the USA FREEDOM Act (previously known as the USA [...]
The Coronavirus Hoax
Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them. After 9/11, for example, Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil [...]
Central Banking is Socialism
Last week, the Federal Reserve responded to Wall Street’s coronavirus panic with an “emergency” interest rate cut. This emergency cut failed to revive the stock market, leading to predictions that the Fed will again cut rates later this [...]
End the Shutdown; It’s Time for Resurrection!
For many millions of Christians, Easter is a time to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Others may celebrate the arrival of spring and the promise of new life. Whatever one’s beliefs, after several weeks of mandatory “stay at home” [...]
Will Coronavirus End the Fed?
September 17, 2019 was a significant day in American economic history. On that day, the New York Federal Reserve began emergency cash infusions into the repurchasing (repo) market. This is the market banks use to make short-term loans to each [...]
SPECIAL SUNDAY ALERT
Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul penned the following piece regarding reports that Congress may attach legislation imposing new price controls on health care providers as part of the multi-trillion COVID-19 spending bill. The bill is [...]
Weak sauce
“. . . weak sauce diluted made impotent by A.G. Barr.” —Sen. Rand Paul My son, Senator Rand Paul, nailed it. He was describing the last-minute Deep State spying extension Attorney General William Barr and his statist pals in BOTH [...]
A shame?
"I think it'd be a shame to let these authorities expire . . . We should extend these authorities." ~Sen. Lindsey Graham After more than a year of grandstanding about the Deep State’s spying abuses, Senator Graham just made it abundantly clear [...]