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No More Blueprints, Visions or Plans....We Need Liberty

By Chris Rossini

It appears that Obamacare is going to be one of the early issues addressed by the incoming Trump Administration. There's a lot of back-and-forth about "repeal and replace" and "repeal and wait." It's all nonsense.

Politicians think of themselves as high and mighty architects, running around with their magnificent blueprints that they're going to force on society. However, (without exception) life and reality smack the pompous politicians down. The sought after results almost ne...

Confirmation: Tillerson's Turn In The Hot Seat

Trump's choice for Secretary of State, former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, is expected to be grilled in tomorrow's Senate confirmation hearing. Will his lack of government experience or his business dealings with Russia trip him up?

'Russian Hacking' Scandal Is Just Political Grandstanding Against Trump

By Ron Paul

While I am not a supporter of President-Elect Trump, I am a supporter of sorting out the truth. When it comes to the 'Russian hacking' allegations, I agree with Julian Assange that there just isn't any evidence or proof that has been provided.

Since the end of World War II up until the year 2000, the U.S. government meddled in 81 different elections around the world. Perhaps we Americans should focus on what our own government does instead of stirring up trouble with outsiders for p...

Here’s a unique sign of inflation

By Simon Black

I remember the first time I ever saw a $100 bill.

It was back in the early 80s, I must have only been 5 or 6 years old.

My parents took my sister and I to a fancy restaurant, and I distinctly remember a man dressed in a dark business suit a few tables over paying his bill with a crisp $100 note.

He pulled it out of his wallet, slid it onto the table, and walked away.

I was dumbfounded. It was more money than I had ever seen in my young life.

None of my friends had ever seen a $...

Sen. Jeff Sessions: Libertarian Or Authoritarian?

Tomorrow the Senate will take up Donald Trump's nominee for Attorney General, Sen. Jeff Sessions. Should libertarians cheer or be worried about an AG Sessions?

Will Obama’s ‘Good War’ in Afghanistan Continue?

By Ron Paul

Last week, as the mainstream media continued to obsess over the CIA’s evidence-free claim that the Russians hacked the presidential election, President Obama quietly sent 300 US Marines back into Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. This is the first time in three years that the US military has been sent into that conflict zone, and it represents a final failure of Obama’s Afghanistan policy. The outgoing president promised that by the end of his second term, the US military would...

Will a GOP Congress Ever Balance the Budget?

By Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)

Two months after the election heard around the world, I’m worried that the more things have changed, the more they have stayed the same in Congress.

Voters swept the Republican Party into full control of the federal government, expecting us to honor our promises to put a stop to a reckless status quo that is mortgaging their futures.

So what’s the first order of business for Republicans in Congress?

To pass a budget that doesn’t balance. Ever.

To pass a budget that will...

Here's How Many Bombs Obama Dropped In 2016

By Tyler Durden

Seven years after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," despite having been in office for less than one year and having pretty much no actual, tangible foreign diplomacy accomplishments at the time, President Obama will depart the White House having dropped 26,171 bombs on foreign countries around the world in 2016, 3,027 more than 2015.

According to an analysis of Defense Depart...

Myth-Busters: Federal Budget Woes

Rather than "Drain The Swamp," Congress is set to vote on a budget that will "Drain our Wallets". Ron Paul discusses the nefarious process of coming up with the federal budget, along with the Fed's role in its constant expansion. It also looks like Senator Rand Paul will be the only Republican Senator to vote against the Obamacare repeal. Find out the reason why on today's Myth-Busters!

There Is Only One Healthcare Solution

By Jacob G. Hornberger

Ever since the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010, conservatives have had a field day complaining about Obamacare and promising to repeal it whenever they got the chance to do so. That chance has now arrived, with Republicans now controlling both houses of Congress and the presidency.

Now they don’t know what to do. Many people have become dependent on Obamacare. They’re likely to be left out in the cold with respect to insurance coverage if Obamacare is repeal...