By Dr. Chuck Baldwin (Originally posted here.) On the heels of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), otherwise known as the “Indefinite Detention Act,” comes another draconian bill designed to give the federal government the power to turn American citizens into enemies of the state for virtually any reason it deems necessary. Stephen D. Foster, [Click here to continue reading the full article...]
Last week the Federal Reserve began the second incarnation of “Operation Twist”, an attempt to drive down interest rates by purchasing long-term Treasury debt and selling short-term debt. This is just the latest instance of the central bank desperately flailing around doing something merely for the sake of doing something. Fed officials still do not [Click here to continue reading the full article...]
Dear Citizen, Over the past few years, you and I have been bombarded with endless horror stories about what would happen if American taxpayers refused to pony up with bailout after bailout. In the end, large politically-connected unions and banks with cozy relationships with Wall Street and the Federal Reserve all got what they wanted. [Click here to continue reading the full article...]
By Alex Newman (Originally posted at the New American 7/12/2011) As the scandal surrounding the Obama administration’s operation to put high-powered guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartelscontinues to grow, new revelations suggest that American taxpayers might have actually paid for the weapons through the stimulus bill and multiple agencies. On top of that, [Click here to continue reading the full article...]
Dear Citizen, President Obama must be grinning from ear to ear. Not only has the news reported yesterday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is scheming to raise the debt ceiling with no real spending cuts, but if this plan goes through, Senator McConnell will have handed yet more power over to the Executive Branch [Click here to continue reading the full article...]
Quote of the Day: “What I’m not going to be doing is using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws.” Barack Obama, Oregon Mail Tribune, March 22, 2008 On June 23, Barney Frank and Ron Paul introduced a bill that would end federal prohibition of marijuana and would let the states decide for [Click here to continue reading the full article...]
Citizen, Attorney General Eric Holder and his anti-gun cronies at the Justice Department are starting to realize they may be in some hot water. But, as was to be expected, they are going to throw someone else under the bus and hope it all goes away… After a revealing week of hearings on the horribly [Click here to continue reading the full article...]
Quote of the Day: “In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.” — Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) Source: “An Inquiry into the Principles of the Good Society,” 1937 We’ve previously updated both the “Read the Bills Act” and the “One Subject [Click here to continue reading the full article...]
I sent the following letter to my elected representatives this morning used our “Read the Bills” campaign. Please feel free to copy it or borrow from it to send your own letter to Congress. I would like to applaud the fact that the Constitution was read in the House of Representatives last week. But instead [Click here to continue reading the full article...]
Quote of the Day: “I leave symbolism to the symbol minded.” — George Carlin Some people are calling for a Congressional pay cut as a symbolic gesture. The idea will be wildly popular, but I don’t care for it. The proposed pay cut isn’t tied to performance, so it will do NOTHING to change Congressional [Click here to continue reading the full article...]
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