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Will the Federal Reserve Interfere in the 2024 Election?

by Ron Paul | Aug 8, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics

Early in 2017, Senator Chuck Schumer stated that then-newly elected President Donald Trump was dumb to be antagonizing the intelligence community because “they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you.” Senator Schumer seems to have been onto something, given the possible involvement of U.S. national security officials in the various attempts to remove President Trump from office and then sabotage his reelection campaign. As powerful as the intelligence agencies are, there is another secretive government institution that also has great ability to harm, or help, politicians: the Federal...

Is Your Child’s School ‘Woke’? Consider Homeschooling

by Ron Paul | Jul 25, 2023 | Featured Articles

“Woke” culture has become so prominent in the American education system that it would not be surprising to learn that schools were replacing the once popular rhyme “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” with “sticks and stones may break my bones but opinions I disagree with can make me feel unsafe so they must be silenced.” Take the case of 12-year-old Liam Morrison, a student at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts. This March, Liam was told to change his shirt or be sent home. School staff are reported to have said his shirt targeted a...

Weaponization of Politics, an American Tradition

by Ron Paul | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics

President Donald Trump is hardly the first political figure who has had the legal and policy processes weaponized against him. In fact, there is a long and shameful history of U.S. politicians and bureaucrats weaponizing governmental powers against their political opponents. The First Amendment was not even a decade old when fear of influence on America by French agents was used to support the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts. This outlawed “false, scandalous, and malicious writing” against the US government, Congress, or the president and made it illegal to conspire “to oppose any...

Our Country Desperately Needs a Peace President

by Ron Paul | Jun 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Most people agree that we are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Some would even argue that we are closer now than we were in those fateful days, when Soviet missiles in Cuba almost triggered a nuclear war between the U.S. and the USSR. In those days we were told that we were in a life-or-death struggle with communism and thus could not cede a square foot of territory or the dominoes would fall one-by-one until the “Reds” ruled over us. That crisis was very real to me, as I was drafted into the military in the middle of the U.S./USSR standoff over...

The Democrats vs. Trump: A Bad Horror Movie?

by Ron Paul | Jun 14, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics

The Democrats and Donald Trump reminds me of a bad horror movie, where the hapless protagonists only make the monster stronger with each attempt to eliminate it. So goes the Democrats’ endless attempts to finally rid America of the “scourge” of Donald Trump. Thanks to the Durham Report we now know they started even before Trump was elected president. Hillary Clinton’s campaign—with the full knowledge of the candidate and the sitting president, Barack Obama—cooked up a “dirty trick” to portray Trump as an agent of Russia in their effort to deny Trump the White House. When that didn’t work...

Homeschooling is Key to Preserving Liberty

by Ron Paul | May 30, 2023 | Featured Articles

The most recent release from the federally funded Nation’s Report Card shows that 40 percent of eighth graders lack even a basic understanding of U.S. history, while only 14 percent are proficient or advanced in history. This score from 2022 showing so many students lack basic understanding is bad. It also indicates a continuation of a decline that started in 2018, the last time the score was previously reported. This report should frighten everyone who wants to restore limited, constitutional government and a true free-market economy. Students who graduate high school without basic...

Biden’s Ukraine Failure Rivals Iraq and Afghanistan

by Ron Paul | May 24, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

When the smoke finally clears, President Biden’s Ukraine debacle will go down—along with Afghanistan and Iraq—as one of the greatest foreign policy disasters in U.S. history. Hundreds of thousands have been killed on both sides in the service of the U.S. neocons’ long standing desire to “regime change” Russia. And let’s not forget that $100 billion authorized by Congress to finance the neocons’ “Project Ukraine.” With Russian control established in the strategic city of Bakhmut over the weekend, the neocon Ukraine project—like all neocon foreign policy projects before it—looks to be...

Only a Society That Values Life Can Protect Against Mass Shootings

by Ron Paul | May 16, 2023 | Featured Articles

Gun control advocates continue to claim that only restrictions on gun ownership will keep people safe from mass shooters and other criminals. However, good people with guns can stop bad people with guns. And bad people will still have guns despite gun control laws. Further weakening the argument that restricting private firearms ownership will reduce violent crimes is the fact that states with “constitutional carry”—where individuals are free to exercise their Second Amendment rights without seeking permission from the government—have lower homicide rates than states with more restrictive...