When Israel Leija, Jr. was picking up food at a drive-through in 2010, police officers approached his car to arrest him. Leija was guilty of violating his probation, and when the officers informed him that he was under arrest, he sped away. For the next twenty...
Politics
Ron Paul on Fed Interest Rate Cut
by Norman Singleton | Aug 2, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul issued the following statement regarding the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it will be reducing interest rates for the first time in a decade: “The Federal Reserve’s reduction of its benchmark interest rate from 2.25% to 2%...
Today’s Federal Reserve Rate Cut Marks The Start Of A New Financial Era
by Mike Swanson | Aug 2, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Today before the open you know that the Federal Reserve is going to do an interest rate cut today, because this has been the most anticipated and talked about Federal Reserve rate cut perhaps in our lifetime. The last Federal Reserve rate cut happened in 2008. That...
Tulsi Gabbard’s Chance to Make the Race About the Wars
by Scott Horton | Jul 31, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. Representative from Hawaii, is running for president. She’s one of the only Democrats in the race who says anything meaningful or interesting about foreign policy. Unlike the rest of them, she’s decided to make it the center of her campaign....
The Tyranny of the Police State Disguised as Law-and-Order
by John Whitehead | Jul 31, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Enough already. Enough with the distractions. Enough with the partisan jousting. Enough with the sniping and name-calling and mud-slinging that do nothing to make this country safer or freer or more just. We have let the government’s evil-doing, its abuses, power...

Gun Violence in California
by Jacob Hornberger | Jul 31, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Upon hearing that a man dressed in a military-style outfit was shooting people with an assault rifle at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California on Sunday, I imagine that there were at least some Californians saying to themselves, “That’s impossible. It’s illegal in...

True Budget Hawks are Foreign Policy Doves
by Ron Paul | Jul 30, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
During my presidential campaigns, well-meaning supporters would sometimes suggest I stop emphasizing opposition to overseas intervention and focus on fiscal issues. I disregarded the advice, not only because adopting a noninterventionist foreign policy is crucial to...

Why Did They Bomb Black Wall Street?
by Zack Sorenson | Jul 27, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Op Eds, Politics
In 1921, the black dominated Greenwood community in Tulsa, Oklahoma was one of the wealthiest in the city. The presence of nice hotels, jewelry shops, and so forth earned it the nickname: "Black Wall Street". By the end of the year, members of the city's white...