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If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation , then by deflation , the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” - Thomas Jefferson Picture yourself in this situation: You are experiencing severe abdominal pains so you visit with your doctor. Your doctor does a perfunctory examination and announces that he wi

Efforts to increase transparency and accountability in the Federal Reserve continue to pick up steam on Capitol Hill. On Wednesday, an Audit the Fed bill overwhelmingly passed the House, 333-92. Over a hundred (106 to be precise) Democrats joined all but one Republican to approve the legislation. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), is a version of a previous bill former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) pushed in 2012 that also passed the House, 327-98. "This is a vital piece of legislation tha

When Congress returns to session there will be many topics on the agenda ranging from a possible declaration of war against the Islamic State to immigration reform. Yet for one congressman from North Carolina, another issue takes precedence. Last December, Walter Jones, a Republican from the Tar Heel State, introduced the simply titled HR 428: Urging the president to release information regarding the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks upon the United States. A short bill, Jones believes: "(

Last week, former Iowa state senator Kent Sorenson pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe from the Ron Paul presidential campaign to switch his support from U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann to the former Texas congressman. Jesse Benton, campaign manager for Kentucky U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, was also implicated in the proceedings and resigned his post. Benton, a lightning rod within the Paul wing of the GOP, was a spokesman for Ron Paul during the former Texas congressman's 2008 and 2012 presidential c

On Thursday, August 28, Politico reported on a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll that said 35 percent of likely GOP caucus voters would vote for Mitt Romney in 2016 if he was added to the field of candidates. The poll released one day after it was reported that Mitt Romney was considering a third presidential run. By considering a third presidential run, Romney said that while he has insisted for months that he will not run, "circumstances could change." "In Wednesday’s survey of 170 likel

An adage of former president Richard Nixon was to run to the right in primaries and move to the center in the general election. One of the more-discussed potential 2016 presidential candidates, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), has taken an approach that might be running the axiom in reverse. Paul's first speech from the U.S. Senate floor in 2011 famously downplayed compromise. In 2012, he called Paul Ryan's contentious budget proposal "tepid." In 2013, with his party filibustering the nomination

1. Republicans and Democrats are calling on Obama to take action against Russia after Malaysia Flight 17 was shot down over the Ukraine. "The Obama administration’s U.N. ambassador, Samantha Powers, told the Security Council Friday that pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine had access to the missile system thought to have been responsible for bringing down the plane, and she said investigators can’t rule out the possibility that the rebels had Russian assistance in operating the system."

Human rights groups across the United States have increased their criticisms of the U.S. prison system over the years. While the United States boasts just 5 percent of the world’s population, the country has a quarter of the world’s prison population. In a May Human Rights Watch report, co-author Jamie Fellner explained that “the ‘land of the free’ has become a country of prisons.” While many advocacy groups have made recommendations on how to reform mandatory sentencing and criminal sanctions,

1. An opinion piece in the News Leader argues that Virginia should not indulge partisan calls to close the state's primaries after Eric Cantor lost his seat. Interestingly enough, one of the biggest names leading the charge to change state law to allow closed primaries is former Virginia Lt. Governor Bill Bolling. Bolling suspended his campaign for the 2013 gubernatorial election in November 2012 because the state GOP decided to change the method of nomination from a primary election to a conve

The outcome of the Mississippi Republican runoff election between U.S. Senator Thad Cochran and state Senator Chris McDaniel has sparked controversy within the GOP. McDaniel and his campaign are currently looking into voting "irregularities" that occurred on Tuesday and may challenge the results in court. Meanwhile, some within the Republican Party -- particularly tea party and conservative grassroots activists -- are not happy that Cochran was able to broaden his outreach to non-GOP voters. An