Lawmakers urge Obama to rethink Afghan strategy

Former presidential contenders Ron Paul, a Republican, and Democrat Dennis Kucinich told reporters the administration needed to clarify its policy in Afghanistan.
Paul said the letter was "just urging caution because we're hoping, with the new administration, that we'll have an administration that will lend itself more to diplomacy and working through other means other than always military confrontation."
"Sending 17,000 troops over there and continuing the drone bombing of Pakistan is hardly a change in policy," he added.
March 18, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul Wants To Audit Federal Reserve – HR1207 Would Make Fed More Transparent

The unthinkable may happen, according to Ron Paul and his supporters; The Federal Reserve may be audited. This would be the first full audit in the Feds’ 96 year history.
The Federal Reserve was originally formed in 1913 by a vote of Congress in an effort to give large national banks control over the monetary system. In creating this nation’s third central bank, it was hoped that the Fed could prevent panics and depressions. The dissolution of the Second Bank of the United States was President Andrew Jackson’s biggest achievement. Jackson was nearly killed by an assassin’s bullet.

March 18, 2009 Permalink

CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERTY LABELED TERORIST?

Maybe you've heard, or maybe not, but the Missouri State Police think you might be a security threat.
Why? Because you support Ron Paul and the Campaign for Liberty. Also, because maybe you own guns, oppose abortion or homeschool.
Even, and I'm serious, because you support the U.S. Constitution.
I know, it's ridiculous...and probably steams you a bit.
But here at Campaign for Liberty we are going to give this foolishness the treatment it deserves. More on that in a moment. Let me give you a bit more background.
As you may be aware by now, the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) recently released a report titled, "The Modern Militia Movement" to over one thousand Missouri law enforcement officers.
March 18, 2009 Permalink

Glenn Beck on AIG Bonuses with Judge Napolitano

Glenn Beck explains how the Obama administration is playing a misdirection game by focusing on the bonuses at AIG rather than all of the tax money going to other countries. Glenn Beck continues to explain how the Obama administration is playing a misdirection game by focusing on the bonuses at AIG rather than all of the tax money going to other countries ...
 
March 18, 2009 Permalink

Bruno vs. Ron Paul

I attended the first screening of Bruno here in Los Angeles. I'm a huge Ron Paul supporter. When Ron Paul came on screen the majority of the audience cheered, clapped, and hollered. The Slate article was inaccurate regarding Ron Paul's scene however. When Bruno pulled his pants down, Ron Paul jumped up and tried to leave the bedroom, but was blocked by Bruno. Ron Paul yelled, "Get out of here," and pushed him aside. As Ron Paul was leaving the hotel room walking towards the elevators, he said something to the effect of, "That guy's queerer than blazes." Ron Paul was visibly uncomfortable, but he didn't do anything that would reflect poorly on himself.
March 18, 2009 Permalink

Sacha Baron Cohen Tries To Harm Ron Paul

Sacha Baron Cohen? Lew, I never heard the name until your blog, and I realized he is the dope who played that infantile Borat character. What was done to Ron Paul was creepy, skanky, and disgusting. What was the point? Shock and awe. Shock people with your depravity and awe them with your brazenness. This is cool stuff, according to people my own age. Oh, and funny, funny!
March 18, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul: Earmarks Don't Add Up

Earmarks seem to be the hot topic this week, and as a fiscal conservative I am dismayed so many people deliberately distort the earmarking process and grandstand to make political points. It is an easy thing to do with earmarks. It takes a little more time and patience to grasp the reality of what earmarks really are.
To be sure, if earmarks were the driving force behind explosive government spending as some have been led to believe, that would be a good reason for all the fuss. The misconception seems to be that members of Congress put together a bunch of requests for project funding, add them all together and come up with a budget. The truth is, it is not done that way
March 16, 2009 Permalink

New Hampshire in uproar over US Administration

A group in the US State of New Hampshire is becoming more vocal in its fight for independence. They believe the federal government has overstepped its role and intruded upon their states' rights.

March 16, 2009 Permalink

AUDIO: Peter Schiff - Why Was Anyone Surprised By the Crash?

Peter Schiff speaks at the 2009 Austrian Scholars Conference

March 16, 2009 Permalink

Campaign For Liberty at the Valley Forge Gun Show 3/13 - 3/15

Armed to the teeth with literature, legislative alerts, videos, and internet access, we are able to captivate our fellow Constitution (especially 2nd Amendment) loving neighbors. With a laptop and flat screen monitor, the internet access proves to be an excellent tool as we can demonstrate the C4L website and pertinent C4L videos to interested parties. Matt Hawes' post on the defeat of S22 couldn't have been more timely. It clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of grass roots organizations, and the importance of the relationship between C4L and Gun Owners of America.
March 16, 2009 Permalink

An Attempt at Sanity in Maryland

This group of Ron Paul supporters has more economic sense than anyone in Washington (except Ron Paul, of course). They have gotten together to craft sound money legislation in Maryland. Here's the text: For the purpose of urging the Unites States Congress to restore honest money backed by silver and gold in accordance with the requirements of the United States Constitution, phase out Federal Reserve notes, and return to the free market banking practices that the Founding Fathers codified in the United States Constitution.
March 16, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul debates Stephen Baldwin on Legalizing Marijuana on CNN Larry King 03/13/2009

The Federal ban on marijuana is “faith based, conservative,” Stephen Baldwin claims. But it’s really not ‘faith based’ or ‘conservative.’ Jesus never lorded it over, and neither should we. WWJD? Jesus would be Constitutional (the law of the land) and compassionate (allowing people to make their own decisions). It’s unconstitutional, unfair (how do we regulate nicotine and alcohol), uncompassionate, and even ’silly’ (banning very useful, non-THC-producing hemp too) Ron Paul demonstrates. Constitutionally, it should be a states issue.

March 14, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul: Congress 'drinks a lot of alcohol' but won't legalize pot

"That's just a fact," claimed Baldwin. "I don't care what anybody says. What the debate is. If you smoke marijuana at a young age, that'll usually lead to alcohol abuse and harder drugs."
Paul dismissed his concern as "silly."
"The most addictive drug in the country, in the world, is nicotine," he said. "Nobody talks about nicotine being a gateway drug, so there's no sense to that. And besides, [marijuana] is not nearly as addictive as alcohol. If you're a consistent person and you think the government should be regulating personal behavior, you should be in favor of prohibition of alcohol."
March 14, 2009 Permalink

Stimulus Payment Q&A

Economic Stimulus Payment explained using the Q and A format.

March 06, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul to Appear on CNN D.L. Hughley Breaks The News

Everybody's favorite 2008 Republican Presidential candidate, Ron Paul, will be appearing this Saturday night on CNN's D.L. Hughley Breaks The News. Congressman Paul, who is also a surgeon, has delivered more than 4000 babies in his East Texas district.
March 06, 2009 Permalink

A VIABLE plan to save our Constitutional Republic

No, the title of this article is not just a cheap hook to boost readership. There is a way to take back our Constitutional Republic within perhaps a matter of months by the current number of the “informed” Americans who still see our Constitution as the supreme law of the land. All it takes is for us to come together and implement a fairly simple strategy.
While Ron Paul has arguably done more to wake up and educate the masses than anyone in recent history, it isn't enough to just "know". You may know the bus is coming down the road but if you don't move out of the way, you'll get run over. We may know that our Constitutional Republic is rapidly being replaced by Socialistic Statism controlled by the multi-national corporate elite, but if we don't take action immediately, we will lose forever that grand experiment of government of the People, by the People, and for the People.
March 06, 2009 Permalink

Join Ron Paul and Judge Napolitano for our "Freedom Celebration" in St. Louis on March 27th!

On Friday, March 27th, Campaign for Liberty and Young Americans for Liberty will be hosting a "Freedom Celebration" in St. Louis, Missouri as the kickoff to Campaign for Liberty's first ever Regional Conference! This free and open to the public event will feature speakers Ron Paul and Judge Napolitano.
Last weekend, Campaign for Liberty unveiled itself to the political establishment at the 36th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). This tremendous event allowed us to hold our own "Liberty Forum" with speakers such as Ron Paul, Judge Napolitano, Tom Woods, and Bruce Fein promoting our mission of limited government, sound money, a noninterventionist foreign policy, and an adherence to the Constitution.
March 06, 2009 Permalink

Jon Stewart Eviscerates CNBC

The Masters Of BS

March 05, 2009 Permalink

Time for prayer

Paul made a sharp distinction between capital and credit, a notion that the Fed does not seem to understand. Credit can be created in unlimited fashion and through printing money; capital, however, cannot be produced by the Fed's liquidity creation. Capital is real consumer goods - corn, wheat, oil, and so on - that are truly produced and saved to be transformed via investment into machinery, cars, fixed capital, and the like.
Paul made the point that banks do want to lend; they had lost their real capital in the form of bad loans and were now faced with negative real interest rates; the government recapitalization through printing money was fictitious and could not reconstitute real capital. He sharply criticized central banks for continuing with failed policies and accelerating money printing, thus undermining exchange rates and banking and economic stability. He stated that current out-of-control money printing was only preparing for a collapse of exchange rates and more devastating financial chaos.
March 05, 2009 Permalink

Borrowing and Spending Will Prolong Economic Crisis, Paul Says

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), a former presidential candidate, said the federal government cannot borrow, spend, or print its way out of the current financial crisis, as it is trying to do, and that similar actions by the government in the 1930s only prolonged the Great Depression.
The only solution, Paul said, is to allow the market to clean out the bad investments, and lower taxes and regulations to allow people and businesses to invest and thrive and create real jobs.

March 05, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul, old coot who warned of economic turmoil, thinks he was right

Here's how silly Ron Paul is: He set a budget for his campaign and lived within it. Flew commercial. Stayed at Super 8's. No motorcades.
In fact, he ended with no deficit, which is how he thinks the federal government should operate.
In point of fact, Paul ended his campaign with a surplus. Can you imagine anything so silly in this day and age?
Paul warned all during his campaign about a looming economic disaster if government just kept growing and growing and printing more money like Republicans and Democrats wanted. Many said he was loony. His noisy followers too. Today, just because the old geezer predicted correctly, Paul thinks someone will listen to him? Get real!
Paul was on Bloomberg TV on Wednesday, and he absolutely amazed the reporters by patiently explaining that we got into this national financial whirlpool by spending too much government money, and so the solution was probably not to spend even more government money. Ever heard anything so wacky?
March 05, 2009 Permalink

Fox News Strategy Room 3/4/09

Fox News Strategy Room with Judge Napolitano, Ron Paul, Glenn Beck and more. There are 6 parts. They will all play automatically.

March 05, 2009 Permalink

A movement for liberty

Yes, it’s worth noting that Obama, who favors an interventionist government, attracted most of the country’s young voters. For every young adult who voted for Republican candidate John McCain on Election Day, two voted for Obama. But while it may seem that young voters are becoming ever more socialist in their views, the Ron Paul campaign revealed otherwise. In many states’ Republican primary elections, Paul — who supports dismantling the federal income tax and significantly shrinking the size of government — received from young voters nearly twice the percentage of votes than he received from other age groups. His college-student support was bolstered by his frequent visits to university campuses, and he even spoke at the University of Michigan while Obama and McCain did not.
But even now that the 2008 presidential election is over and the energy surrounding the Ron Paul campaign has diminished, students around the nation are continuing to pursue efforts to counter the nation’s socialist policies.
March 05, 2009 Permalink

It Is Time to Admit the Obvious: The Political Classes Deliberately Are Blocking an Economic Recovery

The key to holding power, however, is blocking an economic recovery and having an economy in which double-digit unemployment is the norm. Don’t think that this would trigger a revolt from the American voters. Once the voters have come to believe that their own futures are tied to the whims of the political classes, they will vote their personal security. Furthermore, the administration and Congress will do everything possible to further empower labor unions, and we can look for huge inroads as the government simply will declare that businesses and organizations become unionized – or else. Organized labor is a political creation, and that means that every working individual is going to constantly be scrutinized for political loyalties – if that person wants to keep his or her job.
March 05, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul 03/04: The end of the war in Iraq is not near.

March 4, 2009 Ron Paul Congressional Floor
March 04, 2009 Permalink

Rush Roulette

Democratic Party efforts to create Rush Limbaugh as the bobble-head image of the Republican Party is nothing but a diversion designed - they "hope" - to distract popular attention from another Republican, whose philosophy and policies would soon destabilize the political racket enjoyed by both parties. Increasing numbers of people are becoming aware that Ron Paul's message is not about the man - as distracted as most Americans are by the cult of personality in all of politics - but about the reality that both parties, the media, and academia work so feverishly to sweep under a collective rug. As we saw in the so-called "debates" last year, the political establishment must still keep Ron away from public view, lest his words unsettle the minds of Boobus Americanus.
March 04, 2009 Permalink

Five More States Invoke the 10th

Last week, HUMAN EVENTS reported that eleven states, Washington, New Hampshire, Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas, had all “all introduced bills and resolutions” declaring their sovereignty over Obama’s actions in light of the 10th Amendment.
These actions are in response to the Obama administration’s faux-“stimulus” legislation which directly assaults the rights of states to reject the money coming from the federal government. So far, several Republican governors -- among them South Carolina’s Mark Sanford and Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal -- have said they would refuse all or part of the stimulus money because of the constitutional infringements and because of the additional unfunded liabilities they impose on the states.
This week, HUMAN EVENTS is happy to report that five more states have decided to invoke the 10th as well.
These five -- Tennessee, Kentucky, Kansas, Indiana, and West Virginia -- have all begun their action under the 10th Amendment in a bid to protect themselves from what they view as nothing less than an unconstitutional usurpation of power on the part of the Obama administration.
March 04, 2009 Permalink

Ben Bernanke RefusesTransparency - TAKE ACTION NOW!

As his fans call him, the last principled man left in Washington, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) introduced a bill to Congress last week which would mandate transparency and government-level audits on the independent central bank. Call and demand that your representatives support the 'Federal Reserve Transparency Act. H.R.1207

March 04, 2009 Permalink

Congressman: Audit the Fed's books

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, who is seeking to abolish the Federal Reserve, has stepped up his attack, introducing an interim plan that would require the private agency to open all of its books for examination.
Paul has pursued his plan to eliminate the Fed for years, arguing Congress should "reassert its constitutional authority over monetary policy."
The Constitution, he said, gives Congress, not the private Federal Reserve, "the authority to coin money and regulate the value of the currency."
Now he's introduced another new plan, to "reform the manner in which the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is audited by the Comptroller General of the United States and the manner in which such audits are reported."
The new plan, H.R. 1207, may seem a little vague, but there was nothing left to the imagination when he spoke on its behalf in the U.S. House.
March 04, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul and David Shuster Discuss Rush Limbaugh's Role in the GOP

Ron Paul has been all over today!

March 03, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul on Bloomberg TV 3/3/09

It's immoral to transfer wealth from the productive to the non-productive members of society. The stimulus and the bailouts will only make the problem worse. Government needs to get out of the way and let the market sort itself out.

March 03, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul on Glenn Beck 3/3/2009

FEMA Camps?

March 03, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul on "Washington Watch"

Congressman Ron Paul is interviewed on Congressman Walter Jones show. Cong. Jones represents the 3rd district of North Carolina. This is a two part video. Both parts will play automatically.

March 03, 2009 Permalink

I'm Furious

I'm honest, loyal and hard-working. I've struggled, scratched and clawed my way along for 50 years to make sure I could take care of myself. I've prayed a lot, made mistakes, gone over speed bumps, even crashed a couple times, and I've always somehow righted myself. Now that my life should be smoother sailing after all these years, I discover that I must put that life on hold to babysit a bunch of worthless politicians who's britches are too big for them.
And it makes me furious.
I have a new mission in life: To protect and serve my country. And I am never alone. No. I am always standing right next to the very best of the best. The Patriots. Whether they're down the street or a continent away, I'm always with them.
And the fury inside me builds a personal strength I never knew I had.
I find myself with only three words left to say...

B R I N G   I T   O N

March 03, 2009 Permalink

Jim Rogers March 01-09

"If you don't face reality and you sit there and twiddle along and believe Mr Bernanke that everything is OK, you are going to get hit by a two-by-four and it's going to hurt very, very, very badly, so I would urge you to be prepared.
We are going to have another depression
The farmers will have the lamborghinis when this is all said and done!"

March 03, 2009 Permalink

Audit the Fed!! (Flyer)

Introduced last Thursday, H.R. 1207 already has bipartisan support with 11 cosponsors from all across the country. In contrast to the massive "stimulus" package, Dr. Paul's bill can be read in less than five minutes.
Our new Audit the Fed flier was hugely popular last week at CPAC, and we are confident that the current economic crisis has created interest in many who had previously been closed to such an idea. We've now added it to our "Fliers" section so you can print them out and spread the word!
March 03, 2009 Permalink

Banging Away

If not, the Obama administration will ensure you have the choice to terminate that pregnancy. If you bring the child to term, no worries: welfare will take care of you.
Good government brought to you by your elected first dude. In effect, this conglomeration of choice fails to meet the criteria for thought. I, as a taxpayer, am forced to raise a child I did not bring into this world. In the other extreme, I, as a citizen of this country, am sanctioning murder for the sake of expedience.
Ron Paul was right. I should have voted for him...
March 03, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul at the Texas Freedom & Liberty Banquet

In five parts. All parts will play automatically.

March 02, 2009 Permalink

Is Spending the Answer?

This week, Congress and the administration once again showed their lack of economic understanding, as they ramped up spending to record levels. On the surface, maybe it does look to some like the economic crisis is a liquidity problem, that the economy is in trouble because money is not changing hands at the pace it once did in the boom years. They believe that to get back to a booming economy money needs to start changing hands again – and the quickest way to do this is for the federal government to massively expand spending to pump new money into the system. If this is the extent of their understanding, no wonder they call for spending, taxing, bailouts and inflation.
If spending was the solution, we never would have had a problem.
March 02, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul On CNN American Morning 03/02/09

Sad, Republicans STARVING For Leadership

March 02, 2009 Permalink

Campaign for Liberty at CPAC 2009 Photos

See the rest on fickr

March 02, 2009 Permalink

Volunteering @ CPAC 2009

I happened to be walking out of the exhibit hall with a large stack of pocket Constitutions when I saw Mike Huckabee walking towards me. I called out his name and asked if he wanted a pocket Constitution. (What politician would turn down a free copy of the Constitution?) He said sure, so I gave him one and the look on his face was priceless when he realized it was from Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty. By the end of the day we had saturated the conference with slim jims, brochures, and liberty forum pamphlets as well as with copies of Young American Revolution
March 02, 2009 Permalink

What if...

A text video of Dr. Paul's latest famous speach.

March 02, 2009 Permalink

Support H.R. 1207 to Audit the Federal Reserve

Last week (the week of February 23, 2009) was a very productive one for Ron Paul. On Monday he posted, "On Transparency of the Fed," which applauded the Fed's recent initiatives to enhance its transparency and accountability. However, Paul went on to say, "But with so much of the Fed’s business cloaked in secrecy, these latest initiatives will not even scratch the surface of the Fed’s opaque operations." Furthermore, according to Paul, "People are demanding answers and explanations for our economic malaise, and we should settle for nothing less than the whole truth on monetary policy."
March 01, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul places 3rd in CPAC straw poll for 2012 Presidential nominee

Participants were asked, "thinking ahead to the 2012 Presidential election, who would you vote for as the next Republican nominee for President?" Of 1,757 ballots cast, Dr. Paul garnered 13% of the votes, placing third behind Mitt Romney with 20% and Bobby Jindal with 14%, but beating Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, and Rudy Giuliani. 45% of respondents "wish the GOP had a better field of candidates."
March 01, 2009 Permalink

True News 21: What To Do About the Coming Depression

The root causes and only solution for what we all face.

March 01, 2009 Permalink

A voice in the wilderness no more

A hot, sticky crowd, overflowing from a room meant for 478 people, whoops it up when Andrew Napolitano makes that claim. They are here for the Liberty Forum, an unofficial offshoot of the 36th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC. All of them are supporters of Ron Paul.
The persistent popularity of Paul, the 72-year-old libertarian congressman who raised $35m in a quixotic Republican presidential bid, is one of the head-turning shocks of CPAC. Walk into the Omni Shoreham Hotel, the site of the conference, and a smiling volunteer for the Campaign for Liberty – Paul's new organisation – will hand you a flyer for one of their meetings. They're everywhere.
What's changed in two years? It's not only that Republicans have lost an election – it's that Republicans do not yet understand why they lost. They are not willing to consider that they lost votes because Americans wanted more social democratic policies. The official explanation for their loss is that Republicans spent too much money and lost touch with their values. It only makes sense that Paul, who has been arguing for years that the GOP needs to get back to the values of pre-New Deal America, should be winning over young hearts and minds.
March 01, 2009 Permalink

Ron Paul: 'Get Rid of the Federal Reserve'

“In the past 12 months, our national debt went up $1.5 trillion, and next year it’s going to be more. Young people know what they are getting. They know they are getting a bad deal. They’re getting nothing but debt.
“We’re in an atmosphere now where if we can accept the idea that the taxpayers can bail out the banks and big business, there is nothing that can't be funded. Everything will be appropriated. There will be no cuts.
“Our financial system has come unglued, but the next shoe to drop will be the disintegration of the dollar. We as conservatives and believers in limited government have a tough task to restrain big spenders before that happens because, when that happens, what is threatened is our liberty.”
March 01, 2009 Permalink

Take the C-PAC Straw Poll

Thinking ahead to the 2012 Presidential election, who would you vote for as the next Republican nominee for President?
March 01, 2009 Permalink