Ron Paul's Blog, page 347

Is The Intelligence Community At War With Trump?

We are joined by special guest Phil Giraldi, a career intelligence officer, to take a look at the bizarre standoff between President Trump and the US intelligence community.

Fed president says US banks have “half the equity they need”

By Simon Black

In a scathing editorial published in the Wall Street Journal today, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Neel Kashkari, blasted US banks, saying that they still lacked sufficient capital to withstand a major crisis.

Kashkari makes a great analogy.

When you’re applying for a mortgage or business loan, sensible banks are supposed to demand a 20% down payment from their borrowers.

If you want to buy a $500,000 home, a conservative bank will loan creditworthy...

Politics Is A Fool's Game

By Chris Rossini

Politics is a fool's game. The House always wins, and taxpayers always lose. As comedian George Carlin said: "It's a big club, and you ain't in it."

Why does The House always win? Well, politicians can lie as much as they want. In the real world, that's called fraud. In politics, it's known as "campaigning," or "campaign rhetoric."

Politicians can say one thing and do the polar opposite. In the real world, that's known as breaking a contract. But in politics there are no...

The Economy Is Booming - Good News Or Fake News?

The stock market is soaring and the jobs report gives a rosy outlook. Are we in for good times...or are the hard times just around the corner?

Who Will Be Blamed if the Oroville Dam Fails?

By Ryan McMaken

Nowadays, references to the New Orleans flooding of 2005 often speak of the disaster as if Hurricane Katrina was the only reason the city flooded. Rarely mentioned is the failure of the levees built by the Army Corps of Engineers. In fact, incompetently built and poorly maintained government infrastructure was a major contributing factor in the severity and ultimate cost of the disaster. For good reason, more honest observers have called the failure of the levees one of t...

Gen. Flynn Out At NSC -- Winners and Losers

It's open warfare in Washington, D.C. with the latest casualty being President Trump's National Security Advisor, Gen. Michael Flynn. Was it his discussion with the Russian Ambassador or something else that was his undoing. Who benefits?

How should Christians think about the state?

By Ron Paul

Why does the state create religious devotion and violent fervor in its believers? How should Christians think about the state? I'm interviewed by David Gornoski:

CIA Publicly Honors Massive Terrorist State?

By Claire Bernish

In a move that would make Orwell spin in his grave, the CIA presented to the heir to the throne in Saudi Arabia — one of the biggest sponsors of terrorism on the planet — an award for ‘counter-terrorism.’

Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo traveled to Saudi Arabia to award Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef the George Tenet Medal in recognition of his “excellent intelligence performance, in the domain of counter-terrorism and his unbound contribution to realis...

The Future Of Liberty

Young Americans for Liberty is an organization that focuses on  building new generations of like-minded libertarians on college campuses across America. Today special guest Cliff Maloney, President of Young Americans For Liberty, joins us in the studio.

Will Congress Stop Forcing Pro-Life Americans to Subsidize Abortion?

By Ron Paul

Last month marked 44 years since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision declaring a constitutional right to abortion. Roe remains one of the Supreme Court’s most controversial decisions. Even some progressive legal theorists who favor legalized abortion have criticized Roe for judicial overreach and faulty reasoning.
 
Throughout my medical and political careers, I have opposed abortion. I believe abortion is the killing of an innocent human life and, thus, violates the non-a...