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Pentagon Fails First Audit, Neocons Demand More Spending!

By Ron Paul

The Pentagon has finally completed its first ever audit and the results are as many of us expected. After spending nearly a billion dollars to find out what has happened to trillions in unaccounted-for spending, the long look through the books has concluded that only ten percent of all Pentagon agencies pass muster. I am surprised any of them did.

Even the Pentagon is not surprised by the failure of the audit. "We failed the audit. But we never expected to pass it,” said Deputy Secr...

California Secession, Why Taxation, Favorite Rothbard Book...And More - #AskRonPaul

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Fed Claims Economy Is Great...Which Means Prepare For A Crisis!

The Fed is patting itself on the back. Its manipulation of the economy has put it "in such a good place." Have they really done it? Does central planning work? Of course not! A serious financial crisis is ahead.

78 Million Americans Now Live in States with Legal Recreational Marijuana

By Ryan McMaken

Advocates for marijuana legalization won another victory this year as voters in Michigan voted to approve legalization of recreational marijuana in last week's election.

This comes only a month after Canada finalized its legalization of recreational marijuana, making it only the second country where the national government has legalized nationwide recreational use.

Nevertheless, with the addition of Michigan to the eight other states that have legalized recreational marijuana (no...

The Brexit "Deal" -- For The American Reader

By Chris Rossini

The British want out of the European Union, but it's not going so well. Once a country sacrifices its sovereignty, it's not easy to get it back. 

The current "deal" is that the British "leave" the EU in name only.

Americans can imagine it to be like the following analogy:

It's 1776 and the American colonists have had enough of the British Crown.

It's time to secede.

Thomas Jefferson writes King George III the following memo:

"Your Highness, we have a lot of grievances and have prepa...

New Study: War On Terror Cost $5.9 Trillion (And Counting). Do You Feel Safe?

A new study by Brown University has found that the post 9/11 wars have, when all totaled up, cost an estimated $5.9 trillion (and counting) as interest on the borrowed money continues to accrue. What did we get for our money? Safety and security? No. More threats and more wars. Was the whole thing a scam?

Leave It To Republicans To Make Democrats Look Like Penny-Pinchers

By Chris Rossini

It's the same old story from the one-party state: They're all spending (i.e., wasting taxpayer money) at breakneck speed. Government doesn't stop at what they're able to rip off from our incomes. No....They go WAY beyond that. 

Drowning in $21 TRILLION in debt, the federal government spent $100 billion more in October of this year than what it took in from taxation. Bloomberg reports that this was a 60% jump from October of last year!Remember that government is not a wealth-gen...

Chaos In Israel: Are Bibi's Days Numbered?

The surprise resignation of Israeli defense minister Avigdor Lieberman over a ceasefire agreement with Gaza - after a botched Israeli raid broke the initial ceasefire - has brought Israel to the brink of snap elections. Who are the main players and what to expect?

Iran Again Found 'In Compliance'...Yet Bolton Vows To 'Squeeze Hard!'

The International Atomic Energy Agency has again found Iran in compliance with the JCPOA nuclear deal - despite the US re-imposition of sanctions. Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton, said this week he would "squeeze hard" until the "pips squeak." Will sanctions after sanctions work...or are they just isolating the US?

President Trump’s Iran Policy – Is It ‘Normal’?

By Ron Paul

It’s not often that US Government officials are honest when they talk about our foreign policy. The unprovoked 2003 attack on Iraq was called a “liberation.” The 2011 US-led destruction of Libya was a “humanitarian intervention.” And so on.

So, in a way, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was refreshingly honest last week when, speaking about newly-imposed US sanctions, he told the BBC that the Iranian leadership “has to make a decision that they want their people to eat." It was an hon...