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Classic Ron Paul: Chained CPI Chains Taxpayers
Last week the goverment announced that social security recipients and veterans will get a .03% cost of living increase, which amounts to a whopping $5 a month. The low cost of living increase is justified by government statistics claiming to [...]
Iceland Today, the US Tomorrow?
During the 2008 economic crisis, Iceland’s government froze offshore accounts held by foreign investors in that country’s currency, the krona. Recently, the government of Iceland announced it would unfreeze the accounts if the account holders [...]
After Peres, Is Peace Possible in the Middle East?
The death of former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres last week marks the last of the Zionist “old guard” who successfully fought for a UN mandate to establish the state of Israel in what was formerly British Palestine. Much [...]
Why Are We Sending $38 Billion to Rich and Powerful Israel?
Last week’s announcement of a record-breaking US aid package for Israel underscores how dangerously foolish and out-of-touch is our interventionist foreign policy. Over the next ten years, the US taxpayer will be forced to give Israel some $38 [...]
Ron Paul Classic: Seniors' Health Freedom
Obamacare's individual health care mandate may be the most known federal health care mandate, but it is far from the only one. For example, a little-known Clinton-era regulation reacquires senior citizens to enroll in Medicare as a condition of [...]
Obama’s Pivot to Asia Hits a Roadblock in the Philippines
While the mainstream media continues its obsessive reporting on the mud-slinging campaign for the White House, a dramatic development in China last week brought President Obama’s “pivot to Asia” to a sudden halt. Philippine president [...]
Fifteen Years Into the Afghan War, Do Americans Know the Truth?
Last week marked the fifteenth anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan, the longest war in US history. There weren’t any victory parades or photo-ops with Afghanistan’s post-liberation leaders. That is because the war is ongoing. In [...]
Wells Fargo or the Federal Reserve: Who’s the Bigger Fraud?
The Wells Fargo bank account scandal took center stage in the news last week and in all likelihood will continue to make headlines for many weeks to come. What Wells Fargo employees did in opening bank accounts without customers' authorization [...]
How to Solve the Illegal Immigration Problem
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent speech on immigration really missed the point. I understand Trump’s frustration over the US government’s inability to control the US borders and keep out those who would come to this [...]
The Right Lessons from Obamacare's Meltdown
The decision of several major insurance companies to cut their losses and withdraw from the Obamacare exchanges, combined with the failure of 70 percent of Obamacare's health insurance “co-ops, ” will leave one in six Obamacare enrollees with [...]