Obama and Santorum: Two Peas in a War Pod
when it comes to violating the Constitutional delegation of war powers, they generally draw up their strategy from the same playbook.
Peace and no Entangling Alliances: Did this View Make the Founders a Bunch of Quacks?
The title says it all. So what’s the answer?
Obama’s Libyan Operations are Unconstitutional
The Constitution prescribes the rules about how the United States is to enter a war, and the Obama administration has violated those rules.
Obama’s War on Libya: A Constitutional View
Is Obama’s bombing of Libya Constitutional? Here’s the short answer. Absolutely not.
A Tenther’s Perspective of WikiLeaks
The government of the United States has become the distant, detached, self-important entity that the founders had hoped to avoid when writing the Constitution.
The War That’s Not a War
This war is against ourselves, our values, our Constitution, our financial well being and common sense, and at the rate we are going, it is going to end badly.
Fear-Mongering from the Left and the Right
It’s time for both sides to start imagining what they fear most: What if government did nothing?
Immigration, Foreign Affairs and the Constitution
Many “progressive” opponents of the Arizona immigration law are arguing that the law is unconstitutional because foreign affairs is exclusively the province of the federal government.
Is DC Serious About The War On Terror?
The reason I ask the question in the title “Is D.C. really serious…?†is because the federal government has not used the tools in the Constitution designed to deal with non-state entities that threaten us, namely letters of marque and reprisal.
Who Makes Foreign Policy?
The media, Congress, and the American public all seem to have accepted something that is patently untrue: namely, that foreign policy is the domain of the president and not Congress. This is absolutely not the case and directly contrary to what our founding fathers wanted.
Presidential Tyranny 2.0: Executive Power as the Enemy of Freedom
Presidential power has been on a pathway of expansion beyond what the Constitution outlined, and what a government of, by, and for the people requires, since George Washington was president.
The Founders’ Antipathy to Militarism
While the Framers understood the need for a federal government, what concerned them was the possibility that such a government would become a worse menace than no government at all. Their recent experience with the British government – which of course had been their government and against which they had taken up arms – had reinforced what they had learned through their study of history: that the biggest threat to the freedom and well-being of a people was their own government.
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 [...]
Foreign Aid, Freedom, and Myanmar
Laurence Vance at the Mises institute has an excellent post on the immorality of forced government-to-government foreign aid – with a focus on the tragedy in Myanmar. Here’s an excerpt:
The Constitution and Responding to Terrorism
by Rep Ron Paul It has been over 6 years since the atrocities of September 11 were committed and there are still some very basic measures that need to be taken to bring the perpetrators to justice and make America safer. I have proposed legislation to help with these efforts and will continue to fight [...]
Iran, Nukes, and Interventionism
The big news of the day has clearly been the US Intelligence report that’s come out detailing how Iran halted its nuclear weapons work in 2003. As reported by CNN: Iran halted work toward a nuclear weapon under international scrutiny in 2003 and is unlikely to be able to produce enough enriched uranium for a [...]
177: The Interventionism of the Right
I recently received a promotional email from the so-called “right-wing” RedState.com. In it was a plea to support the troops – by promoting a “national expression of thanks to our military men and women during the Thanksgiving Day holiday.” More striking than this, though, was one small sentence near the end of the email – [...]
Iran: Avoiding the Real Questions
Yesterday, as the Senate overwhelmingly voted for the Lieberman-Kyl Amendment on Iran, I couldn’t stop my amazement at the absolute arrogance of the US federal government. The amendment states: “The United State should designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization . . . and place the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on [...]
Petraeus Report: Symptoms vs Causes
Don’t be fooled by all the hype surrounding testimony from General David Petraeus. In my opinion, this is little more than drama – a political soap opera – distracting us all from the real issue. The interviews and discussions have involved some heated rhetoric about whether or not the “surge” is “working” in Iraq, but [...]
The Root of the Problem
Reports from the UK are talking about a British General lambasting US policy failures in Iraq. From the Guardian: The bitter transatlantic row over Iraq intensified as another key British general lambasted the US for bungling the aftermath of the invasion. Major General Tim Cross, the most senior UK officer involved in the post-war planning, [...]
Foreign Aid Follies
by Michael Boldin June 3, 2007 The US government is now giving your tax dollars to the Mexican government so that government can improve its ability to tap telephone calls and emails. From the Los Angeles Times report: Mexico is expanding its ability to tap telephone calls and e-mail using money from the U.S. government, [...]
Foreign Aid Won’t Save Africa
by Rep Ron Paul Congress is poised to pass the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) authorizing up to $50 million in unconstitutional foreign aid. The bill passed out of the Foreign Affairs Committee with a bipartisan agreement to nearly double the President’s requested amount. It is always distressing to see officials in our [...]
Apr 04, 2008 | Categories:Foreign Policy | Tags: africa, Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, Guest Commentary, pepfar, protectionism, Ron Paul, Trade, trade-policies, Welfare | 6 Comments »