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By RonPaul.com on February 13, 2012
by Ron Paul Many religious conservatives understandably are upset with the latest Obamacare mandate, which will require religious employers (including Catholic employers) to provide birth control to workers receiving healthcare benefits. This mandate includes certain birth control devices that are considered abortifacients, like IUDs and the “morning after” pill. Of course Catholic teachings forbid the [...]
Posted in Health Care, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Abortion, Mandate, Obamacare |
By RonPaul.com on February 6, 2012
by Ron Paul 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 the hubbub has been any discussion of the unconstitutionality of, or the need for, the CFPB itself. Proponents of the CFPB claim that this new bureaucracy [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged CFPB |
By RonPaul.com on January 30, 2012
by Ron Paul 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 until the end of 2014. That’s a year and half longer than they planned when they met just last month. Chairman [...]
Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk |
By RonPaul.com on January 25, 2012
by Ron Paul Tonight, President Obama once again showed that he does not represent the fundamental change this country needs. Instead of offering solutions to the problems our country faces, the President was intent on delivering a campaign speech, further dealing in the typical Washington political gamesmanship that has gotten us exactly nowhere close to [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Writings | Tagged Barack Obama, State of the Union |
By RonPaul.com on January 22, 2012
by Ron Paul 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 uproar took the form of hundreds of thousands of phone calls to both Senators and Representatives, urging them to oppose two draconian new [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Big Brother, Internet, PIPA, SOPA |
By RonPaul.com on January 16, 2012
by Ron Paul Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments in Sackett v. EPA, a case of blatant federal agency overreach and abuse of private property rights. Without any proof or reason, and no chance for appeal, the Environmental Protection Agency determined that a small single home lot was a “protected wetland.” The owners, Mike [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Environment, EPA, Property Rights |
By RonPaul.com on January 9, 2012
by Ron Paul 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 gaveling into session for less than a minute every three days for the express purpose of technically staying in session. The 40 second “pro forma” sessions [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Congress, Constitution, Consumer Financial Protection Board, Gridlock |
By RonPaul.com on January 2, 2012
by Ron Paul 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 New Year. While some fiscal conservatives will try to block this increase, their efforts are designed to fail thanks to the procedure set up by [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Debt, Debt Ceiling |
By RonPaul.com on December 26, 2011
by Ron Paul 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 truly feel secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects when now there is an exception that fits nearly any excuse [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged NDAA, Obama, Power Grab |