National Blog - page 140
RON PAUL: What Are The Chances For Peace in 2016?
Each year more than one trillion dollars goes up in smoke. More accurately, it is stolen from the middle and working classes and shipped off to the one percent. I am talking about the massive yearly bill to maintain the US empire. Washington’s [...]
Santa versus the Bureaucrats
Children around the world are being extra-good this week, hoping there is still time to make Santa's nice list. According to Dr. Merrill Mathews, writing at Rare Liberty, these children should be glad that Santa's workshop is not in the United [...]
Senate Vote on Audit the Fed Scheduled for January 12th
The Senate will vote on Ron Paul's Audit the Fed bill (S.2232) on January 12th. As reported by the Wall Street Journal: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) scheduled a vote for next month on legislation known as “Audit the Fed,” [...]
Budget Bill leaves no boondoggle behind
Writing in USA Today, James Bovard looks at some of the boondoggles hidden in the budget bill: The bill fails to block President Obama from delivering up to $3 billion to the United Nations Green Climate Fund, a partial product of the [...]
Too much Ominibus
This week Congress will be voting on the $1.140 trillion Ominibus spending bill. As is the case with all these big spending bills that are rushed to the floor before most members have a chance to read them, this year's Ominbus is chocked full of [...]
RON PAUL: Do We Need the Fed?
Stocks rose Wednesday following the Federal Reserve’s announcement of the first interest rate increase since 2006. However, stocks fell just two days later. One reason the positive reaction to the Fed’s announcement did not last long is [...]
Ron Paul: Do we need the Fed?
SPOILER ALERT: NO Here is Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul's Texas Strait Talk on on the Federal Reserve's announcement that they are raising interest rates. Dr. Paul also talks about last Friday's announcement that the Senate will hold [...]
82 years after Prohibition, government still addicted to telling us what to do
December 5 is the anniversary of the ratification of the 21st amendment which repealed federal prohibition of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition was ushered in by the 18th amendment, since back then people understood that a Constitutional [...]
Ron Paul: There’s already a recession for half our population
Watch C4L Chairman Ron Paul react to the Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates for the first time in nine years: Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
Ron Paul Comments on IRS Rule Allowing Charities to Solicit Social Security Numbers from Donors
C4L Chairman Ron Paul, submitted the following comments on the proposed IRS rule, "Substantiation Requirement for Certain Contributions" (REG-138344-13.) This rule would allow charities to solicit the Social Security number from donors. Here [...]