(TexasStraightTalk) – Last week, Senators threatened to put a “hold” on the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director over his refusal to answer questions about the use of drones to kill Americans on US soil. That the president’s nominee to head the agency that has used drones to kill perhaps thousands overseas could not deny their possible use at home should be shocking. How did we get to this point? Read the rest of this entry »
(FoxBusiness) – February 12th, 2013 – Former presidential candidate Ron Paul reacted to President Obama’s State of the Union address with John Stossel on Fox Business Network. Read the rest of this entry »
(TexasStraightTalk) – Whenever the federal government decides to reform something we can be fairly sure that the problem is about to get worse, especially if they call the plan bi-partisan. The bi-partisan immigration reform proposal launched last week in the US Senate will be no different. Read the rest of this entry »
(TexasStraighTalk) – President Obama last week began his second term by promising that “a decade of war is now ending.” As he spoke, the US military was rapidly working its way into another war, this time in the impoverished African country of Mali. As far as we know, the US is only providing transport and intelligence assistance to France, which initiated the intervention then immediately called Washington for back-up and funding. However, even if US involvement is limited, and, as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, US boots on the ground are not being considered “at this time,” this clearly is developing into another war. As usual, the mission is creeping. Read the rest of this entry »
(TexasStraighTalk) – As I prepare to retire from Congress, I’d like to suggest a few New Year’s resolutions for my colleagues to consider. For the sake of liberty, peace, and prosperity I certainly hope more members of Congress consider the strict libertarian constitutional approach to government in 2013. Read the rest of this entry »
(ZeroHedge) – In a little under three minutes, Ron Paul explains to a somewhat nonplussed CNBC anchor just how ridiculous the charade that is occurring in D.C. actually is. This succinct spin-free clip should be required viewing for each and every asset-manager, talking-head, propagandist, and mom-and-pop who are viewing the last-minute idiocy of the ‘fiscal cliff’ debacle with some hope that things will be different this time. Read the rest of this entry »
(Paul.house) – The senseless and horrific killings last week in Newtown, Connecticut reminded us that a determined individual or group of individuals can cause great harm no matter what laws are in place. Connecticut already has restrictive gun laws relative to other states, including restrictions on fully automatic, so-called “assault” rifles and gun-free zones. Read the rest of this entry »
(DailyCaller) – Democratic Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Republican Texas Rep. Ron Paul and Democratic New Jersey Rep. Rush Holt Jr. are challenging the Obama administration to release documents it uses to legally justify drone strikes overseas. Read the rest of this entry »
(PolicyMic) – In his weekly Texas Straight Talk address, Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) urged Congress to rethink its bipartisan support for Israel and re-examine America’s interventionist foreign policy in the region. Read the rest of this entry »
(TexasStraightTalk) – As of late Friday the ceasefire in Gaza seems to be holding, if tentatively. While we should be pleased that this round of fighting appears temporarily on hold, we must realize that without changes in U.S. foreign policy it is only a matter of time before the killing begins again. Read the rest of this entry »
(RonPaul) – As of late Friday the ceasefire in Gaza seems to be holding, if tentatively. While we should be pleased that this round of fighting appears temporarily on hold, we must realize that without changes in US foreign policy it is only a matter of time before the killing begins again. Read the rest of this entry »
(TST) – Ron Paul is America’s leading voice for limited, constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, sound money, and a pro-America foreign policy. Read the rest of this entry »
(C4L) – This weekend I got a couple of calls from the media asking me questions about Rick Perry, our governor here in Texas and the statements he made about possible secession. Now, he didn’t call for secession, but he was restating a principle that was long held and at least in the original time of our country, and that is that there was a right to secession. Read the rest of this entry »
(WashTimes) – Rep. Ron Paul, whose maverick presidential bids shook the GOP, said in the wake of this week’s elections that the country has already veered over the fiscal cliff and he sees no chance of righting ship in a country where too many people are dependent on government. Read the rest of this entry »
(Politico) – Mitt Romney’s boisterous rally here Friday night featured both the promise of the Republican Party’s future and a sharp reminder of why the GOP may lose its second consecutive presidential race on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
(RP) – Hurricane Sandy was one of the worst natural disasters the east coast has ever seen. Clean-up and recovery will take months, if not years and estimates run in the tens of billions of dollars. Parts of New York and New Jersey will never be the same. Entire seashore communities have been wiped out, but the determination to rebuild has been lauded as courageous and admirable. Read the rest of this entry »
(LRCBlog) – The Washington Post yesterday detailed a secret — and not-so-secret — US base of operations in the Horn of Africa. It is from this massive, 500 acre base run by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), that virtually all the non-Afghan war drones are launched. It is the center of the US drone war against al-Qaeda (except for those al-Qaeda elements in Libya and Syria with which the US administration is allied — think of those as Eastasia). Read the rest of this entry »
(RP) – Until the late 1990s, individuals interested in Austrian economics, U.S. constitutional history, and libertarian philosophy had few sources of information. They had to spend hours scouring used book stores or the back pages of obscure libertarian periodicals to find the great works of Mises, Rothbard, Hayek, and other giants of liberty. Local library and university collections ignored libertarian politics and economics. Read the rest of this entry »
(DesertNews) – Ron Paul received a robust welcome at Utah Valley University on Thursday, drawing supportive chants, cheers and standing ovations from the audience as he lambasted the federal reserve, income taxes, the war on drugs, the war in Afghanistan, medicare, welfare and foreign policy. Read the rest of this entry »
Ron Paul at Utah Valley University earlier today (10/18/12). 4,200 people in attendance. The Revolution continues…
Ron Paul gets a hug from a teary-eyed fan, Britni Agnew, after speaking at the UCCU Center in Orem on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. (Kristin Murphy, Deseret News)
The crowd reacts as Ron Paul speaks at the UCCU Center in Orem on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. (Kristin Murphy, Deseret News)
The crowd reacts as Ron Paul speaks at the UCCU Center in Orem on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. (Kristin Murphy, Deseret News)
(TexasStraightTalk) – Last week, supporters of the current administration rejoiced over job numbers released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). For the first time since the administration came to power, the official unemployment number fell below 8%. Keynesian cheerleaders all claimed the numbers meant we are surely on the road to economic recovery, just in time for Christmas, and also, the election. Others saw through this ruse. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Lauren Lyster speaks with Nigel Farage MEP, Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Co-President of the ‘Europe of Freedom and Democracy’ (EFD) Group in the European Parliament Read the rest of this entry »
(NewAmerican) – Ron Paul, the maverick Texas congressman who has twice run for the Republican presidential nomination, won’t endorse the nominee of his party. Though Paul said last week it was “very unlikely” he would endorse former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, he made it definitive in an interview October 12 on the CNBC program Futures Now. Read the rest of this entry »
(Paul.House) – The media insists on characterizing statements about dependency on government handouts as controversial, but in truth such statements are absolutely correct. It’s not that nearly half of Americans are dependent on government; it’s actually more than half. Read the rest of this entry »
(Bloomberg) – In response to Bernanke’s announcement of open-ended QE Ron Paul Perfectly sums up Bernanke’s justification for doing so “We’ve Lost Control!” Read the rest of this entry »
(TST) – Last week marked the conclusion of the grand taxpayer funded spectacles known as the national party conventions. It is perhaps very telling that while $18 million in tax dollars was granted to each party for these lavish ordeals, an additional $50 million each was needed for security in anticipation of the inevitable protests at each event. Read the rest of this entry »
(ZeroHedge) – The democratic voting process is exposed as a fraud as Democratic Party Leaders follow the GOP lead ignoring popularly elected delegates. Read the rest of this entry »
(OccupyCorporatism) – Senator Ron Paul has introduced the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2012 ( HR459) to the upset of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. In August, the House of Representatives passed 327 – 98 on a vote which exceeded the necessary 2/3rd majority. Read the rest of this entry »
(Paul.House.gov) – We frequently hear the financial press refer to the U.S. dollar as the “world’s reserve currency,” implying that our dollar will always retain its value in an ever shifting world economy. But this is a dangerous and mistaken assumption. Read the rest of this entry »
(AdanSalazar) – For liberty lovers and freedom fighters, the battle to get their grassroots constitutionalist candidate nationally-recognized has been arduous. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – On departing the RNC in Tampa yesterday, Ron Paul, his wife and grand-daughter were subjected to harassment by the TSA at a small airport in Clearwater, Florida. Read the rest of this entry »
“Well done! Whoever controlled the microphone did a great job”
(PaulWatson) – During a roll call of states at the Republican National Convention yesterday, an attendee was caught on a hot mic praising the moment where Ron Paul’s delegate result was accidentally censored as a result of an audio failure. Read the rest of this entry »
(RealNews) – Matt Welch: Ron Paul supporters sidelined at convention as differences with Romney foreign policy are profound Read the rest of this entry »
(HigginsBlog) – Ben Swann of Fox News with his latest Reality Check reports on GOP’s last ditch efforts to try to keep Ron Paul out of the RNC he has rightfully earned. Read the rest of this entry »
