Will Obama Stop the Medical Marijuana Raids?
by Anthony Gregory, CampaignforLiberty In 1996, California passed proposition 215, allowing for medical marijuana. We have seen similar decriminalization measures in Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Vermont. President Bill Clinton responded to such liberalizing laws with a series of federal raids on marijuana dispensaries, arresting [...]
Obama, States Rights and Emissions
by Greg Heller, The Holy Cause “Obama Moves to Let States Set Own Rules on Emissions” So says The Wall Street Journal: President Barack Obama plans to call on the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to consider allowing states including California to regulate automobile greenhouse-gas emissions, said people familiar with the administration’s thinking. The move [...]
Why Do You Pay Taxes?
by William ‘BJ’ Lawson, UnitedLiberty.org As various tax-related mail begins to appear in the mailboxes of hardworking Americans across the country, it’s instructive for all of us to reflect on why we carry the burden of our government every April. Take this morning, for instance. We can credit the “ingenuity of the marketsâ€, and specifically [...]
Stimulus for Who?
by Rep Ron Paul This week the House is expected to pass an $825 billion economic stimulus package. In reality, this bill is just an escalation of a government-created economic mess.  As before, a sense of urgency and impending doom is being used to extract mountains of money from Congress with minimal debate. So much [...]
The Future of Limited Government
by Jeff Wartman If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger. Every four years, voters in the United States are given a choice between two major party candidates in the Presidential election. We are often told that either of these candidates are the “mainstream†[...]
Abolish the Federal Reserve
by Perry Willis, DownsizeDC.org The stock market rises and then crashes. Housing prices soar and then plummet. The Federal Reserve causes these booms and busts by constantly expanding and contracting the supply of money and credit. Credit expansion by the Federal Reserve increases the demand for producer assets and investment instruments. This causes bubbles in [...]
Strengthening or Weakening the Economy?
by Rep Ron Paul The economic situation continues to deteriorate this week as past and future bailouts were discussed on Capitol Hill. The debate was over the accountability of already disbursed TARP money, and on whether or not to release remaining funds.  Banks that had already been bailed out before are looking for more money [...]
Only the States can stop the Feds now
by Rich Hand It is completely out of control in Washington DC. We have a bunch of bumbling idiots in charge of the treasury and the country’s future. Talk of trillion dollar deficits, cap and trade, bailouts, tax welfare to those that don’t pay, taking over our healthcare and economy; like in the Meatloaf song [...]
Shouldn’t Laws be Constitutional?
by Dr. Christopher Duncan I thought so myself. That is until I found out that this bill died. It is called the Enumerated Powers Act, so named because it refers to the 10th Amendment which limits the federal government’s powers to things specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
Opportunities for Peace and Nonintervention
by Rep Ron Paul Last week I discussed our worsening economic situation and the fact that there are very few options for the new administration to improve things in the long run. The same is not true on the foreign policy front. Our interventionist foreign policy stands ready to be put on a new course [...]
The Constitution And Paper Money
by Dr. Clarence Carson, FEE.org The United States Constitution does not mention paper money by that name. Nor does it refer to paper currency or fiat money in those words. There is only one direct reference to the origins of what we, and they, usually call paper money. It is in the limitations on the [...]
