In 2003 Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is over 10 times that figure. So what’s behind the ballooning dollar signs? Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme’s exhaustedly researched book, “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict,” breaks down the price tag, from current debts to the unseen costs we’ll pay for years to come.
“And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there?
Cruelty and injustice…intolerance and oppression.
And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance, coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.
How a limited government and private control over labor, resources and tools can stave off a Communist takeover of the U.S.
President Obama addresses a crowd of supporters at a DNC fundraiser in New York. October 20, 2009
Democrats are an opinionated bunch, the other sides, they just kind of does what they’re told.
Democrats ya’ll thinking for yourselves……..
I like that in ya, but its time to make sure we finish the job here. We are this [...]
Joining host Dennis McCuistion, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (Ludwig von Mises Institute) and Doug Casey (“The Casey Report”) focus their discussion on the credit crisis, free markets and limited government. What is the true purpose of government and do we really need government at all?
“The more laws a society has the more corrupt it is.”
Dr. Paul will be on CNN American Morning today at 8:10 am ET to talk about the Federal Reserve and Wall Street Bonuses. Please tune in if you can.
At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed. Your president will sign it. Most of the third world countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regime from the European Union will rubber stamp it.
As President Obama approaches a decision point on Afghanistan strategy and whether to increase troop levels, a 24-minute rough cut of the first act of Obama’s War.
This documentary goes along with the troops on foot patrols in a small Afganistan farming region. There are daily encounters with Taliban rebels and communication with the locals is often troublesome.
In May 1919 at Dusseldorf, Germany, the allied forces discovered a copy of these ‘Rules.’ They were first printed in the United States in the ‘Bartlesville, Oklahoma Examiner-Enterprise’ the same year, 1919.
Almost 20 years later, in 1946, the attorney general of Florida obtained them from a known member of the Communist Party, who acknowledged that the ‘Rules’ were then still a part of the Communist program for the United States.
All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency.
They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community.
Time magazine sits down with congressman Ron Paul following the release of his new book End the Fed.
Ron Paul talks about auditing the Federal Reserve, censorship during the 2009 presidential election, decriminalizing marijuana and his views on taxes and the current administration.
“We’ve got some work to do, I don’t mind by the way being responsible.
I expect to be held responsible, because I’m the President.
*Applause*
But I don’t want the folks who created the mess, to do a lot of talking!
The Ministry of Truth has announced that ‘Jihadists’ and ‘global war’ no longer acceptable terms and we are no longer in a “war on terror”.
President Obama’s top homeland security and counterterrorism official took all three terms off the table of acceptable words inside the White House during a speech Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.
Peter Schiff rose to national prominence after predicting the credit crunch, the housing crash, the financial bubble, and the current recession back in 2006. His peers ridiculed him and called him crazy. Now there is a large and growing huge grassroots movement calling for him to run for Senate.
Alex welcomes back to the show Texas Congressman and former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. Paul’s bill, H.R. 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, has gained tremendous momentum since it was introduced in the House last February
“We are on the Offensive!” -Ron Paul