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Is Medical Marijuana A Crime? - W/Special Guest Shona Banda

When authorities found out that Shona Banda treated her severe Crohn's Disease with cannabis, they took away her child and are trying to send her to prison for 30 years. But she is fighting back! We speak with Ms. Banda about her struggle for health freedom in today's Liberty Report...

Trump’s Foreign Policy: An Unwise Inconsistency?

By Ron Paul

Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions have been anything but consistent. One day we heard that NATO was obsolete and the US needs to pursue better relations with Russia. But the next time he spoke, these sensible positions were abandoned or an opposite position was taken. Trump’s inconsistent rhetoric left us wondering exactly what kind of foreign policy he would pursue if elected.

The President’s inaugural speech was no different. On the one...

What Trump Could Do

By Jeff Deist

Today Donald Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States. American voters rejected the devil they know so well — Hillary Clinton — for the devil they don’t. Why they did so, and how Trump prevailed, is the biggest political story of our age. But the rejection of progressive hubris, what Friedrich Hayek called the “fatal conceit” of those who would presume to plan our lives, is at the heart of that story.

The Left views Trump’s election as an absolute calamity, desp...

Hope That Trump Will Be the Peace President That Obama Was Not

By Adam Dick

With Donald Trump set to become president tomorrow, many proponents of the US government refraining from intervening in other countries have their fingers crossed, hoping that a Trump administration will bring an improved US foreign policy. In particular, there is hope that Trump’s statements that he wants the US and Russia to have friendlier relations will mean the Trump administration will work to reverse the much increased tensions of the last few years between the nation...

Myth-Busters: Liberty vs. Leviathan

This week a report was released stating that the richest eight individuals in the world have more wealth than everyone else combined. You're expected to perceive this as a problem, without putting thought into whether or not the mega-rich earned their money legitimately in the marketplace, or parasitically through government intervention. You're also expected to rally behind government redistribution efforts to fix this so-called problem. Ron Paul discusses on today's Myth-Busters.

Trump, Silver & Gold

By Ron Paul

Yesterday, I joined CNBC's Futures Now program to discuss the incoming Trump administration and why we can expect increases in both government spending and debt. We also touched upon the gold and silver markets as well. You can watch the brief clip below:

US Government Caught Massively Fabricating Student Loan Default Data

By Tyler Durden

Ever since2012 we have warnedthat one of the biggest threats arising from the US student loan bubble - which is no longer disputed by anyone except perhaps members of the outgoing administration - is not that it is soaring at an unprecedented pace, that's obvious for anyone with the latest loan totalnumber over $1.4 trillion, rising at a pace of nearly $100 billion per year, but that the government - either on purpose or due to honest miscalculation - was not correctly ac...

McCain's $5 Trillion Military Budget: Will It Make America Great Again?

Arizona Senator John McCain has proposed a massive increase in military spending, arguing that the US must be able to fight and win conventional wars in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Is this a great leap forward...or a blunder back to the past?

Americans Are Tremendously Generous

By Ron Paul

As I have said many times in the past, the American people are very generous and compassionate. It's a great error to believe that if government doesn't do something, that no one else will. Accepting such a notion opens the door wide open for one government power grab after another.

This afternoon, in response to Senator Bernie Sanders' assertion that "we are not a compassionate society," my son Rand had a fantastic response that I'd like to share with you today:

"One of the t...

Chelsea Manning Clemency: Did Obama Do The Right Thing?

President Obama's last minute commutation of Chelsea Manning's 35 year sentence for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars surprised Washington. Did he do the right thing?