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Ron Paul: Sentence First, Crime Later?
Attorney General William Barr recently sent a memo to law enforcement officials announcing a new federal initiative that would use techniques and tools developed in the war on terror, such as mass surveillance, to identify potential mass [...]
Ron Paul: Will Trump Take Neocon Bait and Attack Iran Over Saudi Strike?
The recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities by Yemeni Houthi forces demonstrate once again that an aggressive foreign policy often brings unintended consequences and can result in blowback. In 2015 Saudi Arabia attacked its neighbor, Yemen, [...]
Ron Paul -- "always ahead of the curve on this"
Former Federal Reserve Bank of New York President Bill Dudley recently penned an op-ed in Bloomberg calling for the Federal Reserve to not take certain actions for fear it might "enable the Trump administration to continue down a disastrous path [...]
Classic Ron Paul: Reject bipartisanship
This weekends tragic shootings have renewed a push for the Democrats’ expanded background check legislation and Republicans’ “Red Flag” laws. This is a good time to re-examine Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul’s column explaining [...]
Will Persian Gulf 'Tanker War' Become a Shooting War?
The UK got a taste of its own medicine this week as Iran seized a British tanker, the Stena Impero, just two weeks after UK Royal Marines seized a tanker near Gibraltar carrying two million barrels of Iranian oil. As could be predicted, the US [...]
Will More US Troops in Saudi Arabia Make America Great?
President Trump deserves credit for resisting the war cries from neocons like Sen. Lindsey Graham and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after last week’s attack on two Saudi oil facilities. Pompeo was eager to blame Iran because he wants war with [...]
Everything changed
On September 11, 2001, everything changed. As we look back over the eighteen years that have passed since the horrific terrorist attacks, there’s simply no denying it. Things that were practically unthinkable before have become our new [...]
Are Recessions Inevitable?
Stocks fell last week following news that the yield curve on Treasury notes had inverted. This means that a short-term Treasury note was paying higher interest rates than long-term Treasury note. An inverted yield curve is widely seen as a sign [...]
Congress Spending Surge is National Suicide
With a national debt approaching $23 trillion and a trillion dollar deficit for this year alone, Congress last week decided to double down on suicidal spending, passing a two year budget that has the United States careening toward catastrophe. [...]
Recognizing Our State Volunteers
When I was running for president in 2008 and 2012, many people told me I was their “political hero.” I can’t tell you how humbled I still am to receive praise like that. But today, I want to take a moment to share a few stories with [...]