National Blog - page 121
A Chance to Learn About The Consitution
If you're in, or near, Mount Dora Florida on Saturday August 13 and Sunday August 14, you may want to attend "How Does the Constitution Help You? Pursue life, liberty, and happiness..." a one-day course in Constitutional law taught by [...]
The Path to Fed-Exit
I recently proposed that the liberty movement capitalize on Brexit with “Fed-exit”: a campaign to “secede" from the Federal Reserve. Fed-exit could be accomplished with a few simple policy changes.Passing Audit the Fed is a good first step [...]
Campaign for Liberty to HHS: Let us know how much Obamacare will cost in 2017
Campaign for Liberty has joined a coalition letter to the Department of Health and Human Services requesting the HHS realize the 2017 Obamacare state premiums rates before the currently scheduled release date of November 17. Since the rates go [...]
Campaign for Liberty to Congress: No Budget Gimmicks
Campaign for Liberty has joined a coalition of organizations in a letter to the House conference on the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act and every member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The letter opposes the inclusion of an [...]
Ron Paul Classic: When They Came For The "Climate Deniers"
Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has introduced a "resolution of disapproval" calling on companies that fund organizations promoting "climate-change denial" to stop supporting so-call climate-change denial. Whitehouse's resolution also [...]
Conventional Tyranny
The IRS isn't the only government agency that has a problem with the American tradition of anonymous political speech, prior to last week's RNC convention the Cleveland Police Chief issued a "warning" to protesters not to cover their [...]
Should Newman Be Your Banker?
During his aborted Presidential run, Senator Bernie Sanders suggested letting the Post Office offer banking services...because combining two government-protected institutions with a reputation for providing awful customer service is a great [...]
Ron Paul: How to End Violence in America
Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul has penned a must-read essay on how applying the libertarian principle of non-aggression to government would reduce private as well as government violence. The article is reprinted below and the original, [...]
Don’t Reform the Fed, Fed-Exit!
Opponents of a central bank should take advantage of the post-Brexit vote revival of secessionist sentiments to promote a secession from central banking, or “Fed-exit.” Ending the Federal Reserve's monopoly on money is the key to restoring [...]
Fool’s Errand: NATO Pledges Four More Years of War in Afghanistan
The longest war in US history just got even longer. As NATO wrapped up its 2016 Warsaw Summit, the organization agreed to continue funding Afghan security forces through the year 2020. Of course with all that funding comes US and NATO troops, and [...]