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When Disaster Strikes, You're on Your Own

By Ryan McMaken

Here is an often-used tactic to defend government police organizations from criticism. Whenever critics point out abusive tactics of police officers, defenders counter with: "And yet you won't refuse police help the next time there's a robber in your house!" This, we are told, illustrates that all police critics are "hypocrites." 

This has always been a dishonest tactic, of course, since "consumers" of police "services" are forced to pay for the local monopoly police force, and...

GOP Tax Plan Increases the Most Insidious Tax

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Last Thursday, congressional Republicans unveiled their tax reform legislation. On the same day, President Trump nominated current Federal Reserve Board Governor Jerome Powell to succeed Janet Yellen as Federal Reserve chair. While the tax plan dominated the headlines, the Powell appointment will have much greater long-term impact. Federal Reserve policies affect every aspect of the economy, including whether the Republican tax...

Trump In Asia: Diplomacy Or Sabre-Rattling?

President Trump has begun a major tour of Asia, where he is expected to meet with the leaders of China, South Korea, and Russia. At a time when the US military has announced that the only way to rid North Korea of its nuclear program is a full ground invasion, what will Trump tell his counterparts?

The Fed Is Safe Under Trump

President Trump is great at stirring up controversies, and throwing red meat to the media. He's great at keeping the left in a permanent state of hyperventilation. He's great at rallying his supporters. But when it comes to actual policies, the status quo has been maintained across the board. The warfare is safe. The welfare is safe. Even the Federal Reserve is safe under Trump.

The Time Trump's Fed Nominee Delivered an Entire Speech Attacking Ron Paul's Audit the Fed Bill

By Robert Wenzel

So much for President Donald Trump ending the Fed or even auditing it.

The President has just nominated Jerome "Jay" Powell to head the Federal Reserve following the expiration of Janet Yellen's term on February 3, 2016.

Powell has operated his entire career inside the top levels of the establishment. Via Wikipedia:

In 1979, Powell moved to New York City and became a clerk to Judge Ellsworth Van Graafeiland of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 1981...

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Tragic Horrors...From New York To Yemen

Yesterday's tragic attack in New York where eight innocent people were killed serves as a reminder that even with the surveillance state in place we are not any safer. How much does our interventionist foreign policy, which results in many more innocents killed overseas, contribute to hatred of America and a desire to harm Americans? Is there a connection?

Tillerson To Iraq - 'We Ain't Leaving'

By Liberty Report Staff

Thomas Jefferson once said: “I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power, the greater will it be.”

Boy, it didn't turn out that way at all.

In testimony, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson revealed that the U.S. is not leaving Iraq, even if the Iraqis specifically request the U.S. to withdraw and remove permission for the U.S. to be there.

Jason Ditz at Antiwar.com reports:

Testifying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secr...

Special Report: Privacy Is Liberty - Liberty Is Privacy

By Liberty Report Staff

PRIVACY and LIBERTY are both parts of the nature of every individual human being. We are all born with the LIBERTY to think in PRIVATE.

Our minds are our individual kingdoms, where every thought happens in secret.

POWER seeks to abolish both LIBERTY and PRIVACY.

Ron Paul explains this threat:

Do We Need A New War Authorization?

The White House does not want the 9/11 authorization to be "updated." They like it just the way it has been mis-interpreted for the last 16 years. Some in Congress insist we need a new authorization to clarify what, when, where, and how. Who's right?