National Blog - page 79
Liberty at the Movies: Risen
Since this is Good Friday I am going to reprint my review of Risen from last year. You can help Campaign for Liberty by downloading the movie here. Looking for a good Easter movie with a libertarian theme? Try Risen, a 2016 release that details [...]
Too Much Omnibus (Apologies to The Who)
The Omnibus spending bill that Congress passed last week was over 2,00 pages. It was introduced Wednesday night, passed the House Thursday afternoon, and passed the Senate at around one o'clock Friday morning. So how many Senators and [...]
How the Nazis Used Gun Control
Last night the Senate passed the Omnibus spending bill which includes two gun control measures one "fixing" the dangerous and unconstitutional National Instant Check Background System (NCIS) which will lead to many Americans losing their second [...]
Ron Paul: Will Congress side with Jeff Sessions or with the people and the Constitution
Congress is still negotiating the final Omnibus spending deal. As of this writing, there is still an effort to add new gun control in the form of “fixing” the national instant background check system. Another issue that still needs to be [...]
Pompeo and Haspel are Symptoms of a Deeper Problem
President Trump’s recent cabinet shake-up looks to be a real boost to hard-line militarism and neo-conservatism. If his nominees to head the State Department and CIA are confirmed, we may well have moved closer to war. Before being chosen by [...]
Too Much Omnibus (Part Two)
As is to be excepted, the 2,220 page Omnibus spending bill that was drafted in secret and then rushed through has many outrageous spending provisions and riders. This blog will list some of the most outrageous, as well as some of the few good [...]
Neocons Are Back With a Big War Budget and Big War Plans
On Friday, President Trump signed the omnibus spending bill for 2018. The $1.3 trillion bill was so monstrous that it would have made the biggest spender in the Obama Administration blush. The image of leading Congressional Democrats Pelosi and [...]
Gun control vote today
Buried in this massive 1.3 trillion dollar Omnibus spending bill are two provisions empowering federal bureaucrats to wage war on your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The House is scheduled to vote on the Omnibus bill in a few [...]
This Week in Congress
The big event this week is the passage of a $1.3 trillion Omnibus spending bill, which follows on the heels of an announcement that the national debt has topped $21 trillion for the first time in history. The biggest source of controversy over [...]
Rand Paul: Audit the Fed NOW
Senator Rand Paul penned an op-ed on why it is time for Congress to pass Audit the Fed. With Mitch McConnell denying a floor vote to Audit the Fed this week, which has forced Campaign for Liberty to turn up the heat on Senator McConnell to make [...]