Ron Paul

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• If You Like The Surveillance State, You'll Love E-Verify

  Published 30 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  From massive NSA spying, to IRS targeting of the administration's political opponents, to collection and sharing of our health care information as part of Obamacare,…

• What We Have Learned From Afghanistan

  Published 23 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Last week the Taliban opened an office in Doha, Qatar with the US government's blessing. They raised the Taliban flag at the opening ceremony and…

• Obama's Syria Policy Looks a Lot Like Bush's Iraq Policy

  Published 16 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  President Obama announced late last week that the US intelligence community had just determined that the Syrian government had used poison gas on a small…

• Government Spying: Should We Be Shocked?

  Published 09 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Last week we saw dramatic new evidence of illegal government surveillance of our telephone calls, and of the National Security Agency's deep penetration into American…

• Iraq Collapse Shows Bankruptcy of Interventionism

  Published 02 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  May was Iraq's deadliest month in nearly five years, with more than 1,000 dead - both civilians and security personnel -- in a rash of…

• 'Common Core' Nationalizes and Dumbs Down Public School Curriculum

  Published 26 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  In addition to shredding civil liberties, launching a utopian global war for democracy, and going on a spending spree that would make LBJ blush, the…

• The IRS's Job Is To Violate Our Liberties

  Published 19 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  "What do you expect when you target the President?" This is what an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent allegedly said to the head of a…

• What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi

  Published 13 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Congressional hearings, White House damage control, endless op-eds, accusations, and defensive denials. Controversy over the events in Benghazi last September took center stage in Washington…

• Federal Reserve Blows More Bubbles

  Published 05 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Last week at its regular policy-setting meeting, the Federal Reserve announced it would double down on the policies that have failed to produce anything but…

• Liberty Was Also Attacked in Boston

  Published 28 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint…

• Congress Exploits Our Fears to Take Our Liberty

  Published 21 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  This week, as Americans were horrified by the attacks in Boston, both houses of Congress considered legislation undermining our liberty in the name of "safety."…

• Why Can't We All Travel To Cuba?

  Published 14 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Earlier this month, entertainers Jay-Z and Beyoncé were given a license by the US government to travel to Cuba. Because it is not otherwise legal…

• Homeschooling: The Future of Liberty

  Published 07 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  A common feature of authoritarian regimes is the criminalization of alternatives to government-controlled education. Dictators recognize the danger that free thought poses to their rule,…

• The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery

  Published 01 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The dramatic recent events in Cyprus have highlighted the fundamental weakness in the European banking system and the extreme fragility of fractional reserve banking. Cypriot…

• Neo-Con War Addiction Threatens Our Future

  Published 24 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  William Kristol knows what is wrong with the United States. As he wrote recently in the flagship magazine of the neo-conservatives, the Weekly Standard, the…

• The Congressional Budget Debate Is Just A Sideshow

  Published 17 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Federal spending once again dominated the debate in Washington last week, as House Republicans and Senate Democrats began work on their ten-year budget plans. Contrary…

• Congress, Drones, and The Imperial Presidency

  Published 10 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Last week the US Senate took a break from debating the phony cuts known as "sequestration," for Senator Rand Paul to hold a 13-hour filibuster…

• The Sequester 'Crisis' And What Should Be Done

  Published 03 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Despite what the media and politicians would have us believe, the United States did not collapse last Friday when the package of spending reductions known…

• When They Came for the Raw Milk Drinkers...

  Published 24 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  While I oppose most gun control proposals, there is one group of Americans I do believe should be disarmed: federal agents. The use of force…

• The Drone Threat

  Published 18 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Last week, Senators threatened to put a "hold" on the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director over his refusal to answer questions about…