National Blog - page 52
Profit Motive: Trump’s Trade Policy and How it Might Fail with China
Today we have a special guest blog from Charles Sauer. Charles is President of the Market Institute and a longtime liberty activist. This piece is an excerpt from his book Profit Motive, explaining why the US is likely to lose any trade wars [...]
Ron Paul: Fed is Deserting Society
Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul recently discussed the negative effects of the Federal Reserve on our economy, and he mentioned Campaign for Liberty’s efforts to pass the Audit the Fed bill and pass state laws recognizing gold and silver [...]
Ron Paul Classic: Lying is not Patriotic
With the arrest of Julian Assange, this seems like a good time to revisit Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul’s official speech on wikileaks publication of the Private Manning leaks. You can read the speech here and [...]
Did Ecuador Make a Deal?
Last Monday the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the first part of a $4.2 billion three-peat loan to Ecuador. The loan is to help Ecuador’s economic modernization program. The US Government supposedly pressured its fellow members of [...]
When They Came for Julian Assange
You probably heard Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, was arrested by British authorities yesterday. Mr. Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012. Assange is expected to be extradited to the United States, where [...]
Ron Paul Classic: Whistle-blowers are Heroes
With Julian Assange’s arrest restarting the debate over the role of whistle-blowers, now is an excellent time to revisit Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul’s 2017 column for USA TODAY, “Whistle-blowers are heroic, patriotic.” You can [...]
(Government) Spending is Theft
Imagine being robbed every time you receive a paycheck, but once a year getting some of the stolen money back because the thieves took more than they intended. Would you be happy about it? If you are like most Americans the answer is yes, since [...]
Norm Singleton: Trump Has Been Neo-conned
Campaign for Liberty President Norm Singleton issued the following statement regarding President Trump’s veto of S.J.Res. 7, which directed him to end US involvement in the Yemen Civil War: “As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised [...]
Freedom Under Assault...
Last week’s arrest of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange by the British government on a US extradition order is an attack on all of us. It is an attack on the US Constitution. It is an attack on the free press. It is an attack on free speech. [...]
Why the Statists Win
Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute has a must-read essay on “One Reason the Left Wins.” McMaken’s reason for leftist success is that they never lose sight of their long-term goal, whether nationalized health care, gun control, or a green [...]