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Trump’s Neocons Reverse His Syria Withdrawal Plan By: Ron Paul The Ron Paul Institute

Dr. Ron Paul, who served 12 terms in the US Congress and became famous when he ran on a libertarian platform for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, has been on a rampage this Spring, excoriating both President Trump and the Republican-held Congress on one issue after another. Carol Paul must be putting something in her husband's coffee, because the libertarian firebrand (who turns 82 this year) spent the month of April challenging the political establishment with the kind of gusto and pointed criticisms that gained him a devoted global following when he ran for president in 2008 and set two records for the most online donations in a single day to a political candidate in US history. Let The Shutdown Happen. Forever. On the latest government shutdown drama over appropriations, which has become more banal with each passing year since 1995, Ron Paul accused Congress members of using a dysfunctional policy-making process as an excuse for why Washington keeps spend...

"Spiders don't need to be capitalists. And they don't need people making videos favoring them being capitalists." Ron Paul would love this video... because it's pure gold.

Two Freedom Feens talk radio hosts argue that " Ron Paul's Pay Wall Makes Him A Dinosaur Thrashing In The Tar Pits ." An excerpt: "He's trying to make it look like Fox News... And it's like-- it doesn't really work... What I think would be better is just him in his office, in his cozy home. I don't want Ron Paul trying to look like a talking head. I want Ron Paul being Ron Paul." "Although there is something to be said like Ben Swann said when we interviewed him, that there are visual cues; there are these subconscious things that make people think, 'Oh, this is news,' but I don't really know if Ron Paul's audience in general falls for that, and if the idea is not to preach to the choir, the people that already love him who are going to be the ones paying ten dollars a month to see this, but it's to spread the message, then why are you having people pay ten dollars to see this, right? If the idea is to spread the word...

Every time Ron Paul "sings" in this auto-tuned comedy video, I can't help myself but laugh. This is so funny: ...and so awesome. The War on Drugs IS a failure. If you disagree, you're unaware of or uninterested in facts. Ron Paul did say in an interview once, btw, that his real dream had always been to be a singer. Well, it's not quite the same, but I hope someone's shared this video with the good doctor from Texas. (It's right at the end of the interview below.) Lyrics, The War on Drugs is a Failure We need to repeal the whole war on drugs It isn't working We don't have to have more courts and more prisons This has to change This has to change Prohibition didn't work Prohibition on drugs doesn't work We have spent over 400 billion dollars It's a waste of money We need to come to our senses Let's put down the guns and unclench the fists We need to come to our senses Yeah, we don't treat alcoholics l...

Over the weekend, we learned that Ron Paul's next big project is a full K-12 Ron Paul homeschool curriculum that will be offered to parents for free from grades K-5. Website: RonPaulCurriculum.com "You're trying to decrease my future tax obligations and improve my education?" *mmmwwwaaahhhh* The curriculum is being co-authored with libertarian economist Gary North and libertarian historian Tom Woods . On his own blog, Woods lists the benefits of the new Ron Paul homeschool curriculum as follows: (1) Grades K-5 will be available for free. You have six years to try out the program without having to spend a dime. (2) Students will learn the origins and travails of liberty in the Western world and in the United States in particular. (3) Students will learn the economics of the Austrian School. (4) Students can learn at their own pace. If they’re advanced and move more quickly, they can quiz out of the first two years of college and enter college as juni...

Analysts continue to consider CPAC’s strategical takeaways weeks after the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where attendees were constantly faced with both questions and propositions of how the Republican Party must, as the NRA’s David Keene put it, “adapt or die.” If the tremendous surge in support seen recently from the right-wing political base for officials like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Justin Amash, and Thomas Massie--candidates that just a few years ago would have been impossible to elect-- are any indication, the GOP is, indeed, adapting. As conservative writer George Will stated on a Sunday morning talk show recently, what he saw “at CPAC was the rise of the libertarian strand of Republicanism, which has an affected foreign policy that is a pullback from nation-building and other ambitions abroad that they never countenance from government at home, and a sense of ‘live and let live’ with subjects such as decriminalization of certain drugs and ga...

Wow, for some reason John McCain looks like someone I could vote for now. Last week, the Republican National Committee released a major 2013 report entitled " The Growth and Opportunity Project ." In the words of its report, the purpose of the project was "to dig deep to provide an honest review of the 2012 election cycle and a path forward for the Republican Party to ensure success in winning more elections." Here's a shovel. Keep digging. Using your handy-dandy Cmd+F function, you will be unable to find any of the words from the following list in a report about why the Republicans are losing elections and how to start winning them again: liberty freedom capitalism constitution founding fathers libertarian(s) tea party ron paul civil liberties federal reserve national debt jeff frazee rand paul 2016 we seriously ****ed up; we submit our resignations That last quip aside, if the chairman's people didn't dig deep enough to ev...

“We Are the Future Rally” at the Sun Dome at the University of South Florida. ( Andrew Harnik/The Washington Time s By: Eric Sharp   The Sunday before the 2012 RNC, a unique political event took place. "We Are The Future Rally" with Ron Paul drew an overflow crowd of more than 10,000 young people. While the GOP Establishment was busy pushing Ron Paul's delegates to the margins with rule changes , the R3VOLUTION was making other plans. "We Are The Future" isn't just a name, it is a declaration. What we are looking at is a "libertarian long-march ", to borrow a Marxist term (it's pay back for stealing the word liberal). What this means is that the Ron Paul Revolutionaries are not going to quietly assimilate into the machine and become good cogs that do what they are told. They will " throw their bodies upon the gears ". They will keep pushing every way they can until a free society is achieved.  The method of each activist is ...

By: Wes Messamore If a Houston-based video game developer, Daniel Williams, 27, is successful, Ron Paul will finally defeat the Federal Reserve central banking system in the United States… in an upcoming video game, Ron Paul: the Road to REVOLution , based on the Texas congressman and 2012 presidential candidate’s career as a politician and advocate for Fed transparency, sound money, and free market banking… Read the rest of my article at The Silver Underground . Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

By: Carl Wicklander Just as there are founding national myths, there are also myths meant to allay the conscience after catastrophes. Already we are hearing why the Republicans are going to lose the White House this year. Some are apt to blame the contentious, lengthy primary fight as the reason why Republicans are doomed. Apparently this is the first disputed presidential nomination process in American history. But John Avlon’s take at The Daily Beast (h/t Judy Morris ) is so off-the-mark as to be clownish. Avlon writes: “A cleansing bout of craziness in 2012 could be just what the GOP needs. “I’m talking about a nominee so far to the right that conservative populists get their fondest wish—and the Republican Party is forced to learn from the result. Namely, that there is such a thing as too extreme. . . . “If Mitt Romney does finally wrestle the nomination to the ground, and then loses to Obama, conservatives will blame the loss on his alleged moderation. The right...

By: Wes Messamore Ron Holland writes at LewRockwell : It is time for a groundswell of Ron Paul supporters to quietly, respectfully but firmly make their position clear to the mainstream media and the GOP establishment. Simply put, "No Paul on the ticket means no vote for the GOP in November". The Ron Paul Campaign has the GOP establishment stuck between a rock and a hard place even though they have not won a single state in the primaries to date. Every Paul supporter knows the underhanded tactics used by the Republican leadership at the state and national level as well as the organized smear and news blackout campaign carried out by the mainstream media. Sign the "No Paul, No Vote" petition here . Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

What is it about Jay Leno's show? Every time Ron Paul goes on, it's like he becomes a completely different person. He's so loose, relaxed, makes a lot of pretty funny quips, even has a sort of confident, boyish charm that he doesn't always exhibit on the campaign trail or in debates. When Jay Leno asked him what his preferred Secret Service code name would be, Ron Paul didn't miss a beat before answering, "Bulldog." Watch the entire interview: Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

Up until now, the media has hardly taken notice of the delegate counts as compared to its coverage of who wins each caucus’ presidential preference contest, and as a universally-applied and accepted convention, when a major news source reports “(Candidate) wins (state or territory),” they have always meant the candidate won the presidential preference poll at that state’s nominating contest, not the most delegates. Because of this, the AP‘s Virgin Islands headline seems awfully deceptive and abusive of its audience’s trust. Everyone expects and understands headlines like this to mean what they have always meant this entire primary season; otherwise the media is not comparing “like” with “like.” Instead it’s cherry-picking results to suit an agenda. As the Paul blogger claims at the link above, the media abruptly changed its rules in its coverage of the Virgin Islands caucuses, and just so happened to abruptly change them when Ron Paul won the contest that the media has been using to ...

For the first time ever in either of his two Republican presidential runs, the first in 2008 and the current one in 2012, Ron Paul has taken first in a Republican primary nominating contest in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Sure that's a small victory, but we'll take it! (And why on earth should some of these dinky little states matter any more than the Virgin Islands do?) Here were the totals: 1st Place - Ron Paul: 29% 2nd Place - Mitt Wallstreet: 26% 3rd Place - Rino Santorum: 6% Last Place - Newt Skywalker: 5% WHNT News19 reports : "Ron Paul got the most votes in the Republican Caucus in the Virgin Islands, but Mitt Romney walked away with more delegates. Why? The caucus system is a complicated one in the Virgin Islands." Then they gotta throw this in: "While Dr. Paul getting more votes is a moral victory, during this phase of the campaign, it's all about the delegates." I'm just sure "it's all about the delegates" for ...

The unbound delegate count is one mostly ignored by the mainstream media, especially relative to its coverage of the "beauty contest" results of non-binding straw polls in caucus and primary states. In addition to not being covered very well despite its importance to the process (and would could turn out to be its central importance to the process this election cycle), this matter of the unbound delegate count is frankly kind of confusing. No worries. In this Reality Check with Ben Swann , Ben spotlights these unbound delegates and breaks the issue down with a simple explanation so that viewers can finally understand it. Real, solid journalism at its finest: Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

In an email to supporters Thursday, Ron Paul wrote: Dear [Patriot], The mainstream media got the Super Tuesday story wrong. Very wrong. Again. I'm sure you heard them gleefully talk about which establishment candidate "won" which primary or caucus Tuesday night, if you were even watching. Most Americans thankfully had more sense and switched on something else. The fact is, just like in many of the earlier contests, very few delegates to the Republican National Convention were decided on Tuesday. Most will be decided several weeks, or even months, from now at District and State conventions - conventions where our local delegates will have a big say in who goes to Tampa. In fact, while I didn't win any state's straw polls, my team expects me to win a plurality of delegates in at least three states, as well as outright majorities in two more of the states that have already started their process. Of course, the media totally ignores this story - as the...

Here's CNN's current delegate scorecard . As I've mentioned before, it doesn't match up with delegate counts from other equally mainstream, "reliable" sources, so you can take from that what you will. FULL Results for Super Tuesday Republican Presidential Primaries State Gingrich Paul Romney Santorum reporting 03/06 AK 14.1% 24.0% 32.4% 29.2% 100% 03/06 GA 47.2% 6.6% 25.9% 19.6% 100% 03/06 ID 2.1% 18.1% 61.6% 18.2% 100% 03/06 MA 4.6% 9.5% 72.2% 12.0% 100% 03/06 ND 8.5% 28.1% 23.7% 39.7% 100% 03/06 OH 14.6% 9.2% 37.9% 37.1% 100% 03/06 OK 27.5% 9.6% 28.0% 33.8% 100% 03/06 TN 23.9% 9.0% 28.1% 37.2% 100% 03/06 VA - 40.5% 59.5% - 100% 03/06 VT 8.2% 25.5% 39.8% 23.7% 99% 03/06 WY 0% 2.5% 55.7% 30.5% 26% Source: Associated Press Hat tip: Google Headlines and Commentary on Super Tuesday: Here at The Humble Libertarian , Carl Wicklander offers his excellent commentary and analysis of the Super Tuesday contests yester...