National Blog - page 171
Conservatives Will Regret Attacking the Filibuster
During the recent debate over Homeland Security funding, some short-sighted Representatives advocated Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell build on Harry Reid's legacy by completely getting rid of the filibuster. Michael Hammond, a long-time [...]
Yes, we can... audit the Fed!
During C4L's "Liberty Forum" at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference, we announced our young organization's top legislative priority - achieving an audit of the Federal Reserve. Dr. Ron Paul had then recently reintroduced the bill [...]
Do Audit the Fed Critics Know What They're Criticizing?
Much of the criticisms of our effort to Audit the Fed is not actually based in reality. Relying on Fed propaganda, critics are doing nothing more than setting up straw men and boldly knocking them back down. I'd like to point to one today in [...]
Campaign for Liberty to Congress: Don't Bust the Spending Caps
Campaign for Liberty has joined a coalition of free-market groups on a letter to Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price in support of adhering to the current spending caps in all areas, including defense. Campaign for Liberty continues to work for [...]
Investors Should Demand an Audit of the Fed
So says Denis Kleinfield at Newsmax: Who needs to operate in secrecy? The Federal Reserve, Wall Street and the government. But who gets audited? Investors. Just this last week, however, proposals were introduced into Congress to audit [...]
Iran Fighting ISIS – Is it Really a Problem?
As Iran continues to take an active role in helping Iraq fight ISIS, many US neocons are upset that the US military is not over there on the ground doing the fighting. They believe that only another US invasion of Iraq – and of Syria as well [...]
Ron Paul: The Most Forceful Advocate of Limited Government
Roll Call magazine is celebrating 60 years with a weekly "Throwback Thursday Congressional Quiz." Yesterday, one of the questions was, “What freshman lawmaker was described as 'somewhat cocky and questioning' in 1976?" The answer? [...]
President Obama's Comments at Selma
By Zac Nickerson President Obama made a telling comment in his speech in Selma, Alabama on Saturday. While commenting on the tragic events of that day in 1965, and the commemoration of its fifty year anniversary, he said, “What greater [...]
Stan Evans: RIP
When our friends get elected, they cease to be our friends." “The trouble with conservatives,” he once observed, “is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington [...]
More Americans wising up to who benefits from Obamanomics
According to a new Pew Research Center Poll, 66% of Americans believe that President's Obama's polices have benefited the rich, not the middle-class (H/T: The Daily Caller): Sixty-six percent of Pew’s 1,504 respondents say “government [...]