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	05/20/13 - The IRS's Job Is To Violate Our Liberties "What do you expect when you target the President?" This is what an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent allegedly said to the head of a conservative organization that was ...

	05/13/13 - What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi Congressional hearings, White House damage control, endless op-eds, accusations and defensive denials. Controversy over the events in Benghazi last September took center stage ...

	05/06/13 - Federal Reserve Blows More Bubbles Last week at its regular policy-setting meeting, the Federal Reserve announced it would double down on the policies that have failed to produce anything but a stagnant economy. ...

	05/01/13 - Another Nail in the Neocon Coffin The recent opening of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity was a watershed moment in American history. There has never been anything quite like it. Ideologically ...

	04/29/13 - Liberty Was Also Attacked in Boston Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint to be ...

	04/22/13 - Congress Exploits Our Fears to Take Our Liberty This week, as Americans were horrified by the attacks in Boston, both houses of Congress considered legislation undermining our liberty in the name of "safety." Gun control ...

	04/15/13 - Why Can't We All Travel To Cuba? Earlier this month, entertainers Jay-Z and Beyoncé were given a license by the US government to travel to Cuba. Because it is not otherwise legal for Americans to travel ...

	04/08/13 - Emulate Ron Paul This talk was delivered to the Alabama state convention of Young Americans for Liberty in Auburn, Alabama, on April 6, 2013. I've had the privilege of knowing Ron Paul for 37 ...

	04/08/13 - Homeschooling: The Future of Liberty A common feature of authoritarian regimes is the criminalization of alternatives to government-controlled education. Dictators recognize the danger that free thought poses to ...

	04/01/13 - The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery The dramatic recent events in Cyprus have highlighted the fundamental weakness in the European banking system and the extreme fragility of fractional reserve banking. Cypriot ...

	03/25/13 - Neo-Con War Addiction Threatens Our Future William Kristol knows what is wrong with the United States. As he wrote recently in the flagship magazine of the neo-conservatives, the Weekly Standard , the problem with the ...

	03/18/13 - The Congressional Budget Debate Is Just A Sideshow Federal spending once again dominated the debate in Washington last week, as House Republicans and Senate Democrats began work on their ten-year budget plans. Contrary to ...

	03/11/13 - Congress, Drones and The Imperial Presidency Last week the US Senate took a break from debating the phony cuts known as "sequestration," for Senator Rand Paul to hold a 13-hour filibuster to force the Obama administration ...

	03/04/13 - The Sequester 'Crisis' And What Should Be Done Despite what the media and politicians would have us believe, the United States did not collapse last Friday when the package of spending reductions known as "sequestration" ...

	02/25/13 - When they came for the Raw Milk drinkers... While I oppose most gun control proposals, there is one group of Americans I do believe should be disarmed: federal agents. The use of force by federal agents to enforce unjust ...

	02/19/13 - The Drone Threat 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 ...

	02/11/13 - Beware The Consequences of Pre-Emptive War Last year more US troops died by suicide than died in combat in Afghanistan. More than 20 percent of military personnel deployed to combat will develop post-traumatic stress ...

	02/05/13 - Immigration 'Reform' Will Turn the US into a Police State 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 ...

	01/29/13 - US Action in Mali is Another Undeclared War 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, ...

	01/22/13 - The Coming Debt Limit Drama: Government Wins, We Lose Last week President Obama bluntly warned Congress that he will not negotiate when it comes to raising the statutory debt limit. If Republicans attempt to use a debt ceiling ...

	01/15/13 - On Obama's New National Security Team, Keep Your Eye on the Policy President Obama announced his choices for key national security posts this past week, and there has been both celebration and gnashing of teeth in Washington and around the ...

	12/31/12 - New Year's Resolutions for Congress 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 ...

	12/24/12 - Government Security is Just Another Kind of Violence 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 ...

	12/21/12 - The Astonishing Ron Paul As 2012 draws to a close, it's hard not to be reminded that 2013 will begin with Ron Paul retired from Congress. For all those years he was a fearless truth-teller, who exposed ...

	12/18/12 - Right to Work is Part of Economic Liberty Many observers were surprised when Michigan, historically a stronghold of union power, became the nation's 24th "Right to Work" state. The backlash from November's unsuccessful ...

	12/11/12 - Expanding Covert Warfare Makes Us Less Safe Earlier this month we learned that the Obama Administration is significantly expanding the number of covert Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) agents overseas. From just a few ...

	12/04/12 - Headed Toward the 11th Hour Compromise As the year draws to an end, America faces yet another congressionally-manufactured crisis which will likely end in yet another 11th hour compromise, resulting in more ...

	11/27/12 - How to End the Tragedy in Gaza 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 ...

	11/20/12 - Secession: Are We Free To Go? Is all the recent talk of secession mere sour grapes over the election, or perhaps something deeper? Currently there are active petitions in support of secession for all 50 ...

	11/15/12 - Farewell to Congress This may well be the last time I speak on the House Floor. At the end of the year I'll leave Congress after 23 years in office over a 36-year period. My goals in 1976 were the ...

	11/13/12 - In Praise of Price Gouging As the northeastern United States continues to recover from Hurricane Sandy, we hear the usual outcry against individuals and companies who dare to charge market prices for ...

	11/10/12 - To Romney and the GOP Elites: What Goes Around Comes Around On November 6th a large percentage of the Ron Paul supporters (10% of the GOP electorate) in the primary season exited the corrupt GOP voting process, stayed home, watched our ...

	11/06/12 - The Economics of Disaster Hurricane Sandy was one of the worst natural disasters the East Coast has ever seen. Cleanup and recovery will take months, if not years and estimates run in the tens of ...

	10/30/12 - Let the Markets Clear! French businessman and economist Jean-Baptiste Say is credited with identifying the fundamental economic principle that aggregate demand for goods in an economy will equal the ...

	10/23/12 - The Internet Revolution is a Liberty Revolution Until the late 1990s, individuals interested in Austrian economics, US constitutional history and libertarian philosophy had few sources of information. They had to spend hours ...

	10/16/12 - Keeping Up Statistical Appearances 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 ...

	10/09/12 - Government Dependency Will End in Chaos 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 ...

	10/04/12 - Don't Cry For Us, Mitt Romney Mitt Romney and the GOP establishment desperately need a few million votes in order to beat Obama in the 2012 General Election. The GOP could have had most of the Ron Paul ...

	10/02/12 - Gold is Good Money Last year the Chairman of the Federal Reserve told me that gold is not money , a position which central banks, governments and mainstream economists have claimed is the ...

	09/25/12 - Interest Rates Are Prices One of the most enduring myths in the United States is that this country has a free market, when in reality, the market is merely the structural shell of formerly free ...

	09/18/12 - Consequences of an Interventionist Foreign Policy The attack on the US consulate in Libya and the killing of the US Ambassador and several aides is another tragic example of how our interventionist foreign policy undermines ...

	09/11/12 - A Republic, Not a Democracy 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 ...

	09/04/12 - How Long Will the Dollar Remain the World's Reserve Currency? We frequently hear the financial press refer to the US dollar as the "world's reserve currency," implying that our dollar will always retain its value in an ever shifting world ...

	08/28/12 - Meaningless Words in Politics As we enter the fall political season, we will hear a great deal of rhetoric from both major political parties and their many candidates for office. It's important for us to ...

	08/24/12 - Is a State Run Gold Standard Really the Answer? Republicans eye return to fixed value for dollar ... The Republican Party is set to call for the creation of a commission to look at possible ways to set a fixed value for the ...

	08/21/12 - Military "Cuts": Don't Believe the Hype Grover Norquist, the influential conservative activist, recently made some very frank and sobering remarks about the US military budget. Unlike many conservatives, Mr. Norquist ...

	08/14/12 - Legalize Competing Currencies I recently held a hearing in my congressional subcommittee on the subject of competing currencies. This is an issue of enormous importance but unfortunately few Americans ...

	08/07/12 - Moving Toward War in Syria Last week the House passed yet another bill placing sanctions on Iran and Syria, bringing us closer to another war in the Middle East. We are told that ever harsher sanctions ...

	08/01/12 - Paul Subcommittee to Examine Sound Money and Parallel Currencies WASHINGTON, July 31 – Congressman Ron Paul, Chairman of the Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee, announced today that the subcommittee will hold a ...

	07/31/12 - Audit the Fed Moves Forward! Last week the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed my legislation calling for a full and effective audit of the Federal Reserve. Well over 300 of my Congressional ...

	07/27/12 - Ron Paul Statement: Financial Services Committee Hearing Before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Financial Services, Hearing on the Annual Report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, July 25, 2012 Mr. ...

	07/26/12 - Press Release: House Votes Overwhelmingly to Audit the Fed! WASHINGTON, July 24 – Congressman Ron Paul today applauded the passage by the House of Representatives of H.R. 459, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. The bill, which ...

	07/24/12 - Security and Self-Governance The senseless and horrific killings last week at a movie theater in Colorado reminded Americans that life is fragile and beautiful, and we should not take family, friends, and ...

	07/17/12 - Inflation is a Monetary Phenomenon Later this month Congress will have an unprecedented opportunity to force the Federal Reserve to provide meaningful transparency to lawmakers and taxpayers. HR 459, my bill ...

	07/10/12 - Fractional Reserve Banking, Government and Moral Hazard Last week my subcommittee held a hearing on fractional reserve banking and the moral hazard created by government (taxpayer) insured deposits. Fractional reserve banking is the ...

	07/03/12 - Audit the Fed Headed for the House Floor! Last week supporters of Federal Reserve transparency had a major victory when the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform passed my Audit the Fed bill, HR 459 ...

	06/26/12 - Government is Already Too Involved in Healthcare This week the Supreme Court is expected to issue its long-awaited decision regarding the constitutionality of the "Obamacare" law. I recently discussed absurd legal arguments ...

	06/19/12 - Washington Times Explains What Ron Paul Supporters Can Learn The "Liberty Movement" and Ron Paul: What to learn from Election 2012 ... Many of my friends and co-workers are the perfect embodiment of what one would disparagingly call ...

	06/19/12 - Unconstitutional Uses of Drones Must Stop Last week I joined several of my colleagues in sending a letter to President Obama requesting clarification of his criteria for the lethal use of drones overseas. ...

	06/12/12 - The CBO Sees the Economic Cliff Ahead Last week the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued its annual long-term budget outlook report, and the 2012 numbers are not promising. In fact, the CBO estimates that ...

	06/09/12 - Lew Rockwell: Ron Paul and Rand Paul are Different RTAmerica posted video June 8 with this description: "Senator Rand Paul shocked many supporters yesterday when he endorsed Mitt Romney as a presidential candidate for the ...

	06/08/12 - Rand Paul Endorses Mitt Romney, Shows Us the Difference Between Father and Son Ron Paul and Rand Paul back Mitt Romney ... Today is a day to praise Ron Paul and Rand Paul. Yes, I said it. Yes, this Neocon still disagrees with Ron Paul on foreign policy. ...

	06/05/12 - War Drums for Syria? War drums are beating again in Washington. This time Syria is in the crosshairs after a massacre there last week left more than 100 dead. As might be expected from an ...

	05/30/12 - Capital Controls Have No Place in a Free Society The characteristic mark of a tyrannical regime is that it eventually finds it necessary to erect walls to keep people from leaving. This is why we should be troubled by the ...

	05/22/12 - On Indefinite Detention: The Tyranny Continues The bad news from last week's passage of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act is that Americans can still be arrested on US soil and detained indefinitely without trial. ...

	05/20/12 - Robin Koerner on Blue Republicans and Why Ron Paul Remains the Hope for the US's Future The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Robin Koerner. Introduction: Robin Koerner is an influential political journalist who coined the term ...

	05/15/12 - Is Ron Paul Dead Yet, Dorothy? Drop a House on Him ... Ron Paul Has Dropped Out of the Presidential Race ... Or Has He? ... The corporate media is abuzz with headlines saying that Ron Paul has finally seen the light, thrown in the ...

	05/15/12 - The Fed: Mend It or End It? Last week I held a hearing to examine the various proposals that have been put forth both to mend and to end the Fed. The purpose was to spur a vigorous and long-lasting ...

	05/11/12 - Is Ron Paul Actually Winning the Delegate Count? CNN Asks Ron Paul To Drop Out & Endorse Romney Despite His Chances To Win 5/9/12 ... Ron Paul on CNN "Newsroom." They continue to attack and ask Ron Paul to drop out. Ron ...

	05/08/12 - Ron Paul: Energizer Bunny of US Politics for Good Reason Ron Paul's Hearing to Ask: Mend or End the Fed?... Defenders of Ben Bernanke may be hard to come by in at least one gathering Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Ron Paul, the Republican ...

	05/08/12 - Enduring Commitments Abroad Last week President Obama made a surprise pre-dawn trip to Afghanistan to mark the one year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden and to sign a document further ...

	05/01/12 - The Costs of War This month Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki announced the addition of some 1,900 mental health nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers to its ...

	04/24/12 - CISPA is the New SOPA Earlier this year, strong public opposition led by several prominent websites forced congressional leaders to cancel votes on two bills known in Washington as "SOPA" and ...

	04/17/12 - Professor Obama Gets an F Last week President Obama made some rather shocking comments at a press conference regarding the Supreme Court's deliberation on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection ...

	04/12/12 - Part II – Paul Supporters: Why Our Political Future Is In the GOP (Please note: Link to Part I of this editorial is below.) So What is the Future for Liberty in Our Closed Political Monopoly? Let's take over the GOP from the inside rather ...

	04/11/12 - Part I - Beware the Establishment's Third Party Trap "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." – Albert Einstein Recently, Justin Raimondo wrote a thoughtful editorial, " ...

	04/10/12 - In Praise of Private Charity One of the great fallacies of our time is that if government doesn't do something, no one will. Its corollary is that if you are opposed to the government doing something, you ...

	04/03/12 - 1930s Bonus Army Redux? Veterans Plan Huge March on RNC in August ... Veterans marched on the Whitehouse in Washington DC on Monday 20th of February 2012. The reason they march is to tell the people, the Whitehouse and Obama that Ron Paul is ...

	04/03/12 - The Supreme Court and Obamacare Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning the constitutionality of the Obamacare law, focusing on the mandate requiring every American to buy health insurance or ...

	03/27/12 - A Fistful of Euros This week, my congressional committee will hold a hearing to examine how the Federal Reserve bails out European banks, propping up spendthrift European governments in the ...

	03/20/12 - Demolishing Due Process It is ironic but perhaps sadly appropriate that Attorney General Eric Holder would choose a law school, Northwestern University, to deliver a speech earlier this month in which ...

	03/13/12 - An Administration Gone Rogue Have certain parts of the Constitution become irrelevant, as a former Republican leader once told me at a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing? At the time, I was told that ...

	03/10/12 - No Paul = No Vote in November "I would also say of Ron Paul – he doesn't need to win. In his view he is winning already. This is an ideological point he is making. But here's why it's ...

	03/06/12 - Fed Up with the Fed While the Fed has recently released an unprecedented amount of information on its activities, there is still much that remains unknown. Predictably, every push towards ...

	02/28/12 - Economy Squeezed As Debt Accelerates Senator Jeff Sessions, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, has pointed out that our per capita government debt is already larger than Greece's. Per person, our ...

	02/24/12 - What If Democracy Is Bunk? What if you are only allowed to vote because it doesn't make a difference? What if no matter how you vote, the elites get to have it their way? What if "one person, one vote" ...

	02/21/12 - Overspending on National Security Threatens National Security The administration recently released its 2013 budget proposal, and conservatives are correctly alarmed that it calls for unprecedented spending and continued annual deficits ...

	02/14/12 - The Latest Obamacare Overreach Many religious conservatives understandably are upset with the latest Obamacare mandate, which will require religious employers (including Catholic employers) to provide birth ...

	02/07/12 - Trust Us; We're the Government While much has been made recently of the President's unconstitutional appointment of Richard Cordray to be director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), lost in ...

	01/31/12 - Failed Fed Policies Prolong the Agony The Federal Reserve's interest rate price-setting board, the FOMC, met last week. They will continue to set the federal funds rate at well below 1%, and plan to keep it low ...

	01/24/12 - Stop Internet Censorship Although Congress was back in session for scarcely more than a day last week, private citizens across the country managed to cause an uproar felt across Capitol Hill. The ...

	01/17/12 - Military Versus Defense: Ron Paul Smacks Down WSJ's Seib "Congressman Paul, South Carolina has seven major military bases, but you want to make major cuts in defense spending, several hundred billion dollars in the coming years. What ...

	01/10/12 - The Ultimate Consumer Protection This week, partisan games in Washington reached a fevered pitch as Congress acted to prevent recess appointments, yet the administration made them anyway. Congress has been ...

	01/04/12 - Famous CNN/Ron Paul 'Censorship' Video: Was It Really 'Interference'? You can see that they have the technology to make the feed "go bad " whenever they want. Please Re-post. This should END CNN as a network. Advertisers should boycott them and ...

	01/03/12 - Ron Paul's March on Washington Every verbal assault in the Media against Ron Paul is a Victory for his campaign, it was not so long ago that they just ignored him with Silence, remember Jon Stewart's Media ...

	01/03/12 - Debt Burden Threatens American Families Last week, as most Americans were celebrating the holidays with family and friends, the Obama Administration announced plans to seek yet another debt ceiling increase in the ...

	12/27/11 - The NDAA Repeals More Rights Little by little, in the name of fighting terrorism, our Bill of Rights is being repealed. The 4th Amendment has been rendered toothless by the PATRIOT Act. No more can we ...

	12/21/11 - Mainstream Economists' Monetary Insanity Paul Krugman's article in the December 15 issue of The New York Times under the title G.O.P. Monetary Madness takes G.O.P. presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul to task for his ...

	12/20/11 - Beware the Coming Bailouts of Europe The economic establishment in this country has come to the conclusion that it is not a matter of "if" the United States must intervene in the bailout of the euro, but simply a ...

	12/13/11 - No Mandatory Mental Health Screening for Children! Maryanne Godboldo, a mother in Michigan, noticed that pills prescribed by her daughter's doctor were making her condition worse, not better. So Ms. Godboldo stopped giving them ...

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