July 2010
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By RonPaul.com on July 25, 2010
On the Bloated Intelligence Bureaucracy by Ron Paul I have often spoken about the excessive size of government, and most recently how waste and inefficiency needs to be eliminated from our military budget. Our foreign policy is not only bankrupting us, but actively creating and antagonizing enemies of the United States, and compromising our national [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged 9/11, Intelligence, Security, Surveillance, Top Secret |
By RonPaul.com on July 25, 2010
Liberty minded activists will meet in Orlando, FL Aug 13th – 15th to network, learn, and build as our grassroots Revolution to reclaim our Republic and restore our Constitution continues. Network with fellow liberty-minded tea party activists, learn about history and current events from a freedom perspective you won’t hear from the mainstream media, and [...]
Posted in Campaign for Liberty, Ron Paul Events | Tagged Carey Baker, Florida, Kevin Gutzman, Kirk Shelley, Liberty Summit, Orlando, Peter Gemma, Scott Plakon, Tom DiLorenzo, Tom Mullen, Tom Woods |
By RonPaul.com on July 22, 2010
Date: 07/22/2010 Rush Transcript This is a rush transcript. Can you help us out and proofread the transcript while you watch the video? Go to our writeboard (password: failed). Then click the “Edit this page” button to make changes. We check all writeboards daily and will update this post with your proofread transcript ASAP. Thanks! [...]
Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul in Congress | Tagged Allan Meltzer, Ben Bernanke, Dollar, Failure, House Financial Services Committee |
By RonPaul.com on July 20, 2010
The United States Mint has a gold problem. As demand for precious metal in the futures indexes and in physical gold bullion coins increases as the dollar weakens, there’s been a run on the Mint. Don’t worry, there’s no shortage of gold. It’s just that the Mint doesn’t have the resources to make it into [...]
Posted in Ron Paul in Congress | Tagged Gold, Gold Coins, Planchets, Shortage, US Mint |
By RonPaul.com on July 20, 2010
Statement of Congressman Ron Paul United States House of Representatives House Committee on Financial Services Hearing on HR 2267: the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act July 20, 2010 Ron Paul: Thank you Mr. Chairman for holding this hearing on HR 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act. While it [...]
Posted in Ron Paul in Congress | Tagged Gambling, HR 2267, Internet Gambling, Online Gambling, Poker |
By RonPaul.com on July 18, 2010
Dangerous Allies: Big Business and Big Government by Ron Paul Last week ended with some promising news on finally stopping the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Unfortunately the administration still seems to believe that shutting down working oil wells is a higher priority than effectively dealing with the broken one. They are again [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Big Business, Big Government, Big Oil, Regulatory Capture |
By RonPaul.com on July 17, 2010
Who should be Ron Paul’s VP in 2012? In a few days we will launch our latest poll to determine an up-to-date answer to this intriguing question. We’d like this to be the most comprehensive poll ever, so please submit your nominations as a comment to this post. The combined choices from our past three [...]
Posted in Ron Paul 2012 | Tagged 2012, Nominations, VP |
By RonPaul.com on July 15, 2010
Ron Paul tells the Joint Economic Committee that the people can handle the truth about unemployment and inflation numbers. Real unemployment is at 22% and real inflation is at 6% according to the original method of measuring the CPI. Date: 07/14/2010 Event: Joint Economic Committee Hearing Transcript Ron Paul: I thank the Madam Chairman, and [...]
Posted in Ron Paul in Congress | Tagged Hearing, Inflation, JEC, Joint Economic Committee, Unemployment |
By RonPaul.com on July 11, 2010
Funding Corruption and Waste in Afghanistan by Ron Paul Last week, GOP chairman Michael Steele came under fire for daring to say what a lot of Americans already know: that our involvement in Funding Corruption and Waste in Afghanistan Last week, GOP chairman Michael Steele came under fire for daring to say what a lot [...]
Posted in Foreign Policy, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Afghanistan, Corruption, Dubai, Karzai, Michael Steele, War |