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Ron Paul: Here's why tax reform isn't on the table this year

Trump Doesn't Seem To Like People Who Don't Like Obamacare

By Chris Rossini

President Trump took to his Twitter account this morning to rip into The House Freedom Caucus.

What's the Freedom Caucus? 

Robert Wenzel describes them as such:

The House Freedom Caucus is a congressional caucus consisting of conservative Republican members of the United States House of Representatives.

The caucus should not be mistaken with free market advocacy or libertarianism. They are low-level interventionists.

That said, they are much better than congressional non-cauc...

Dick Cheney Surfaces: Claims Interfering In Elections "An Act Of War"

Former Vice-President Dick Cheney told an audience yesterday that he was certain that Russia interfered in our election and that such interference in other people's elections is an "act of war." Is that also true when we do it?

Steve Bannon Dismisses Austrian Economics

By Jeff Deist

Writing in  The New York Times Magazine  about last week’s stillborn RyanCare bill, Robert Draper recalls a conversation he had with White House strategist Stephen Bannon earlier this year. Bannon, lamenting the ability of both congressional Democrats and Republicans to get things done, contrasts the identity-obsessed progressives with the one-trick pony conservatives:

What’s that Dostoyevsky line: Happy families are all the same, but unhappy families are unhappy in their own...

​The Busts of 2000 and 2008 were a hint of what's to come

By Liberty Report Staff
Living on borrowed money and borrowed time, the busts of 2000 and 2008 were just a hint of what's to come.

Dr. Paul discusses the failure of Keynesian economics in the interview below. His segment begins around the 3:10 mark:

No...Government Can't "Be Run Like A Great American Company"

By Chris Rossini

President Trump is creating a new "White House Office of American Innovation" (read: a new bureaucracy) with his son-in-law Jared Kushner at the helm. Kushner said over the weekend: “The government should be run like a great American company.”

Sorry, can't happen.

It's literally an impossibility.

Let us explore the many reasons why:

First, government gets its "revenues" by force. It taxes everyone that happens to reside on the turf that government calls its own. If those individua...

Game of Thorns: Revelations From The 2016 Campaign

Historian Doug Wead brings his insider research on what really happened in the 2016 race between Hillary and Trump to a new book on the campaign. We catch up with Wead for some of the surprising revelations...

Did the Government Spy on Trump? Of Course. It Spies on All of Us!

By Ron Paul

There was high drama last week when Rep. Devin Nunes announced at the White House that he had seen evidence that the communications of the Donald Trump campaign people, and perhaps even Trump himself, had been “incidentally collected” by the US government.

If true, this means that someone authorized the monitoring of Trump campaign communications using Section 702 of the FISA Act. Could it have been then-President Obama? We don’t know. Could it have been other political enemies look...

Nine years later, Greece is still in a debt crisis…

By Simon Black

Sometimes you have to marvel at the absurdity of the financial universe in which we live.

On one side of the Atlantic, we have the United States of America, which triggered yet another debt ceiling disaster last Thursday when the US government’s maximum allowable debt reset to just over $20 trillion.

Of course, the US national debt is pretty much already at $20 trillion.

(That’s roughly $166,000 per taxpayer in the Land of the Free.)

This means that Uncle Sam is legally prohib...

Trumpcare Defeat Could Be a Small But Important Victory for Healthcare Freedom...

By Robert Wenzel

Under the incompetent management of House Speaker Paul Ryan the statist Trumpcare bill has been defeated without even a House vote.

This is a good thing. The bill was horrific and worse than Obamacare. It would have actually expanded parts of Obamacare and would have made the mandate much more ironclad and difficult to escape.

If President Trump continues on a path I reported on back in February, the Trump-Ryan defeat could actually be a small plus for advocates of healthc...