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Ron Paul: Piracy is Liberty
Last year, Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul recorded.a special episode of his Liberty Reelrt (which line dreams every day at 12 p.m. EST and is highly recommend) on the link between Privay and Liberty. You can watch the video at this link.
Baby Alfie, the Latest Victim of Omnipotent Government
Twenty-three-month-old Alfie Evans, passed away in a British hospital on Saturday. While the official cause of death was a degenerative brain disease, Alfie may have been murdered by the British health system and the British high court. Doctors [...]
Classic Ron Paul: ONLY A MORAL SOCIETY WILL MAKE OUR CITIZENS AND THEIR GUNS LESS VIOLENT
Today is the 19 Anniversary of the Columbia School shooting. Shortly after the shooting, as Congress debated what type of gun control reform to impose on the people, then Congressman Ron Paul delivered a very important speech on the real causes [...]
This Week in Congress
The House is in session from Tuesday through Friday. On Wednesday the House Committee on Agriculture will mark-up the farm bill. The vote is expected to be contentious as Democrats object to changes in the SNAP or “food stamps" program. Fiscal [...]
Breaking News: Congress Considers New AUMF
Yesterday, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker released a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF). The authorization gives the President blanket authority to “use all necessary and appropriate force against [...]
Red State Socialism Update
Congress is not in session this week, but they will return next week. When they do, they may take up the farm bill. As I have previously written about, the farm bill increases spending by $3.3 billion dollars over the next five years ,but reduces [...]
Liberty at the Movies: Thor: Ragnarok
This week’s box office will be dominated by Marvel Infinity Wars, the latest Avengers movie and the culmination of everything Marvel has been building up to in the last decade. Since the film is setting records for pre-opening ticket sales, [...]
California Dreaming of New Taxes
Last year, Campaign for Liberty members helped kill an attempt to add a new carried interest tax to the GOP tax reform plan. Carried interest is a form of long-term capital gains taxes. But in American politics, bad statist ideas never die... [...]
What Will Weapons Inspectors Find in Syria…And Does it Matter?
Inspectors from the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have finally arrived in Douma, Syria, to assess whether a gas attack took place earlier this month. It has taken a week for the inspectors to begin their work, as [...]
Classic Ron Paul on Taxes
Since this week is tax week it seems appropriate to look back at Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul's column asking if the GOP’s tax reform would increase liberty. I think the answer is the tax plan marginally increases liberty by lowering [...]