National Blog - page 207
FBI to monitor news outlets, rate stories
The Federal Bureau of Investigations is hiring a firm to monitor and rate news stories on both the agency and law enforcement in general. While it is unclear what the guidelines will be for rating news stories as "positive" of "negative" this [...]
Birthday Gift Ideas for Barack Obama
Today is President Barack Obama's 53rd birthday. Any Campaign for Liberty member looking for a last-minute gift may want to browse Campaign for Liberty's bookstore. President Obama could certainly benefit from reading Ron Paul classics like [...]
Why Won’t Obama Just Leave Ukraine Alone?
President Obama announced last week that he was imposing yet another round of sanctions on Russia, this time targeting financial, arms, and energy sectors. The European Union, as it has done each time, quickly followed suit. These sanctions [...]
Jim Rockford: Libertarian?
Maybe not, but the iconic character played by the recently deceased James Garner on The Rockford Files had an anti-authoritarian streak. As A.G. Gancarsk points out in The American Conservative, Rockford, a private detective who served time in [...]
Ted Cruz: The Export-Import Bank is corrupt crony-capitalist fiasco.
In case you missed it, here and below is Senator Ted Cruz's USA Today Op-Ed in support of ending the Export-Import Bank (Eximbank). Campaign for Liberty will continue to work to end Eximbank and all forms of corporate welfare. Don't miss your [...]
Rep. Stockman: No federal funds to drug children
I recently wrote about the case of Maryanne Godboldo, a Michigan mother whose refusal to continue to give her daughter a potentially dangerous psychotropic drug caused Child Protective Services to remove her daughter from Mrs. Godboldo's [...]
WATCH: Ron Paul on C-SPAN
Watch C4L Chairman Ron Paul's interview on C-SPAN. In the three-hour interview, Dr. Paul discusses many topics including foreign policy, the Federal Reserve, the RNC, and abortion. Watch below:
Government puts school bake sales on a diet
Schoolchildren hoping to hold bake sales to raise money for band trips, athletic uniforms, and field trips will have to find other means to raise money thanks to the White House's new school nutrition guidelines. From The Wall Street [...]
Cruz: Keep the Internet Tax Free
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke on the floor of the Senate today arguing why we should keep the Internet tax-free. At issue is the attempt to attach the National Internet Sales Tax to the Internet Access Tax Moratorium bill. Tax-and-spend [...]
Soda taxes not-so SWEET
Yesterday, Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) introduced the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax (SWEET) Act (HR 5279). As the title suggests, this legislation imposes a new tax on sodas. (I don't know about you, but I don't find new taxes to be [...]