Colin Kaepernick’s Bold Stand
September 2, 2016
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has refused to stand during the playing of The Star Spangled Banner, traditionally played before most football games. Like Gabby Douglas’ “refusal” to put her hand over her heart during the playing of the United States’ national anthem at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio last month, Kaepernick’s actions […]
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Some Hindsight: The Lies That Dumped America Into the Syrian War
September 2, 2016
Checking out the news these days, it might seem pretty clear why the U.S. is at war in Syria: destroy ISIS. That is almost certainly the way the two main presidential candidates will see it during their upcoming first debate, in a rare point of agreement. The funny thing is that ISIS did not become […]
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The Ignorance of George P. Shultz
September 1, 2016
Here is an excerpt from George P. Shultz’s book, Learning from Experience, due this fall from Hoover Institution Press. “They will be more effective if they are mostly Arab boots. The challenge is to develop a force in the region that, in coordination with us, can be impactful. An unusual potential coalition is possible: Saudi […]
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Traveling To Cuba: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
September 1, 2016
Yesterday history was made, with the first commercial flight from the US to Cuba in more than 50 years. Here is one real foreign policy achievement of President Obama, but in fact you cannot oppose an idea whose time has come. In today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report we take a look at the benefits and […]
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Homeland Security To Save Us From ‘Rigged Elections’?
August 31, 2016
The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly ready to announce that US elections are part of the “critical infrastructure” of the United States and thus under the Department’s control. Part of the pretext for this move is news that voting registers in Arizona and Illinois may have been been hacked — and without evidence this […]
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Please Get Your Russia Conspiracies Straight
August 31, 2016
Another public hacking episode is in the news this week, and naturally, Russia is being blamed for it. Not that there appears to be much evidence as of yet that Russia is truly responsible. And such evidence is unlikely to be found, even if they did do it. Hacking cases are notoriously difficult if not impossible to […]
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Tickets Going Fast! Ron Paul’s Conference Update: September 10
August 31, 2016
Ron Paul and his Liberty Report co-host Daniel McAdams sat down to discuss some of the final preparations for the “Peace and Prosperity 2016” conference to take place on September 10th in Washington, D.C. What’s the latest? Who will be speaking? What to expect? Watch this short update and if you have not already done […]
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Send in the B-52s
August 31, 2016
Sixty Years of B-52s (U.S. Air Force photo) Perhaps there should be a “new rule” on the American military scene: When the B-52s are called out (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan), it means America has well and truly lost. Unbeknownst to most Americans, since April of this year, B-52s flying out of “Al Udeid airbase in Qatar […]
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Some Important Things That Really Do Matter About Hillary Clinton
August 31, 2016
Even if everyone does it, that does not make it right. That excuse did not work for you in 6th grade when you were caught smoking in the girl’s room and it should not be accepted from a presidential candidate or her supporters in the media. Many politicians do crappy things. That is not an […]
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US Littoral Combat Ships a Figurative Disaster
August 30, 2016
When a branch of the US military starts rolling out a new pet project, it is rarely either cost effective or literally effective. The US Navy’s littoral combat ship (LCS) program is really underscoring that recently, with more ships breaking at seemingly random, meaning four nearly brand new ships have broken down in less than […]
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