Audio from Ron Paul’s speech today at Cato is available here.

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Funny, astute satire from The Onion:
US To Trade Gold Reserves For Cash Through Cash4Gold.com

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Given that Sotomayor was nominated by Barack Obama, I never had high hopes that she’d be good on federalism, guns, economic regulation, labor issues, property rights or the rest of the issues that I agree with the Court “conservatives” on. I did, however, hope that she’d be at least good on the things that [...]

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The Virginia DMV has banned smiles while taking photos for your driver’s license.
Honestly, so what?
As someone who has wasted hours of my life dealing with the bureaucrats at the Virginia DMV I don’t know how anyone could smile after such an experience. Naturally, the facial recognition technology is scary, but I really don’t see how someone could [...]

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Over at StogieGuys.com, I wrote the following column about how nanny-staters chip away at our rights.
It’s the perfect example getting the camels nose under the tent. In other words, they set the precedent for taking away our rights, then, before you know it, they expand a seeming narrow violation of our freedom and use it [...]

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Robert Murphy debunks the myth that Hoover plunged the U.S. into the Great Depression by refusing to intervene in the economy. As he explains, Hoover had the exact same response as Bush/Obama:
Let’s first set the record straight on Herbert Hoover’s fiscal policies. Contrary to what you have heard and read over the last year, [...]

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Ron Paul’s latest Straight Talk Express column:
The recent episode with the Somali pirates has brought to the forefront many questions about maritime security. What is the best way to deal with a gang of criminals, not acting on behalf of any country, when they attack private vessels? Under whose jurisdiction are these types of criminals [...]

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