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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?

Real Charity vs. Depraved Charity

By Chris Rossini

Trump's Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, is going through her confirmation hearing. At one point Senator Bernie Sanders brought up "tuition-free" colleges, one of the many unicorns that live in progressive imaginations. Mrs. DeVos replied to Sanders with a rational statement. She said:"Nothing is ever free—someone has to pay for it."

In Washington, that's almost a revolutionary statement. But is it true?

Yes and no.

If government is involved in providing anything to anyone, it i...

Executive Power In The Age Of Trump

The balance of powers in the US government has taken a steady shift toward the executive branch at the expense especially of the legislative branch. Constitution scholar Louis Fisher joins the Liberty Report to look at what this may portend for the coming Trump Administration.

Martin Luther King Jr. vs. The American Empire

By Ron Paul

I think the thing that I admire the most about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is that he preached non-violent civil disobedience. Most people will not talk about Rev. King's anti-war views, and it may have been one of the reasons that he was assassinated.

In honor of Rev. King's birthday, I'd like to share some heroic quotes of his against the American military empire:

- "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government."
- "We must pursue peaceful end through pe...