America’s Ruling Class
Angelo M. Codevilla, a professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University, has written a sweeping essay, "America's Ruling Class — and the Perils of Revolution," that cries out for the...
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Paul Craig Roberts: America Has Become an Oligarchy of Private Interests
Earlier this year, it looked as if columnist Paul Craig Roberts had hung up his word processor in disgust, having just published his book How the Economy Was Lost (mostly a...
Auditing the Fed: the Great Sellout
Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) had long worked together on their campaign for a full audit of the Federal Reserve, which emerged last year as H.R. 1207...
American Expats Giving Up Citizenship in Record Numbers
The number of Americans choosing not merely to retire but often to live and work in other countries — expatriates or "expats" — has been increasing steadily for a number of...
Ron Paul: Obama Is Another Corporatist, Not a Socialist
The idea that President Barack Obama is a socialist is popular among many conservatives; all of us have seen automobiles sporting the bumper sticker reading, Don’t Blame Me; I Didn’t Vote...
The Media’s War on Tea Party “Extremism”
We live in an era in which more and more people, some of them never before involved in politics, are waking up. They do not like what they see. ...
Real Unemployment Still in 17 Percent Range
According to the U.S. Labor Department, the economy added 162,000 jobs in March, the most since the beginning of the worst recession since the 1930s. This was below expectations that predicted...
Census Should Stick To Constitutional Limits, Says Ron Paul
Every time a year ending in a zero swings around, the federal government conducts a census — typically in early spring, meaning that 2010 Census forms should be in our mailboxes...
McCain-Lieberman Bill Would Deny Civilian Trials for “Enemy Belligerents”
On March 4 Senators John McCain (R-Ariz) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a bill entitled “The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act of 2010.” If you thought some of the...
The Tea Party Movement
The Tea Party movement is rapidly becoming the most widely discussed political movement of our time. When you are written about in the New York Times, in however backhanded a fashion...
A “Driver’s License” for Internet Users?
At the recent meeting of the globalist World Economic Forum in Davos, attendee Craig Mundie — chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft — floated the notion that a "driver’s license"...
Ron Paul’s Opposition in Tea Party Movement
Has the Tea Party Movement (TPM) been hijacked? Originally very much a grassroots uprising against high taxes, out-of-control federal spending, and incumbents not affiliated with any political party, it drew in...
New Unemployment Numbers Conceal Many Issues
January’s unemployment numbers were released late last week. According to the official report, unemployment fell from 10.0 to 9.7 percent last month. Employment fell in such areas as construction and transportation,...
“Bankster” Cabal Conspiracy Going Mainstream?
Claims that cabals of “banksters” control much of the world’s economy from behind closed doors have, for years now, been mainstays of those usually dismissed as “conspiracy theorists.” But since Fall...
What Haiti Needs
Haiti has long been one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Even though it was the first Latin American nation to gain independence — through a slave rebellion —...