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By RonPaul.com on May 7, 2012
by Ron Paul 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 extending the US presence in that country. The president said, “we’re building an enduring partnership…As you stand up, you will not stand [...]
Posted in Foreign Policy, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Afghanistan, Military, Obama |
By RonPaul.com on April 16, 2012
by Ron Paul 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 and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. His comments belie a grasp of constitutional concepts so lacking that perhaps the University of Chicago Law School should offer a [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Constitution, Obama, Obamacare, Supreme Court |
By RonPaul.com on April 9, 2012
by Ron Paul 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, that you are opposed to anyone performing that function at all. These disastrous fallacies color much of our national debate concerning [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Charity, Convoy of Hope |
By RonPaul.com on April 2, 2012
by Ron Paul 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 pay fines enforced by the IRS. Hopefully the Court will strike down this abomination, but we must recognize that the federal judiciary has an abysmal record [...]
Posted in Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Constitution, Mandates, Obamacare |
By RonPaul.com on March 26, 2012
by Ron Paul 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 process. Unfortunately this bailout comes at the expense of American citizens, in the form of higher prices and diminished savings down the road. A good analysis [...]
Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Bailout, Europe |
By RonPaul.com on March 19, 2012
by Ron Paul 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 he demolished what was left of the rule of law in America. In what history likely will record as a turning point, Attorney General [...]
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By RonPaul.com on March 5, 2012
by Ron Paul 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 transparency has been fought tooth and nail. It took disclosure requirements enacted within the Dodd-Frank Act to get the Fed to provide data on its emergency lending [...]
Posted in Federal Reserve, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Audit the Fed |
By RonPaul.com on February 27, 2012
by Ron Paul 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 government owes over $49,000 compared to $38,937 per Greek citizen. Our debt has just reached 101% of our Gross Domestic Product. Our creditors see this [...]
Posted in Economy, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk | Tagged Taxes |
By RonPaul.com on February 20, 2012
by Ron Paul The administration recently released its 2013 budget proposal, and conservatives are correctly alarmed that it calls for unprecedented spending and continued annual deficits exceeding $1 trillion. But the same conservatives complain that the budget does not devote enough funds to overseas adventurism. I continue to be dismayed that in spite of our [...]
Posted in Foreign Policy, Ron Paul's Writings, Texas Straight Talk |