Do you trust the government’s bureaucrats in the Food and Drug Administration more than yourself to judge what is safe to eat?  This question goes straight to the heart of the bill HR 1830 introduced on May 11 by Congressman Ron Paul.  This bill will allow the shipment and distribution of unpasteurized milk and milk products for human consumption across state lines.  With the passage of HR 1830 the bill would remove the unconstitutional restraints placed on fa

Senator Bernard Sanders (I-VT) first introduced an amendment to Senator Dodd’s Restoring American Financial Stability Act requiring that the Government Accountability Office audit the Federal Reserve on a regular basis. Unfortunately, Sanders succumbed to pressure by the Obama administration by scaling back his original proposal. According to the Washington Post,

Yesterday on Capitol Hill, FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey met with Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) to discuss strategies to rein in the Federal Reserve. They talked about how the Federal Reserve has been behind a lot of the economic troubles we face, and how the bank imposes a hidden tax on the people through inflation of the money supply.

Congressman Paul discusses the government intervention in the financial markets. He takes on the question, "Is this the end of capitalism?"

Conservative House Republican Ron Paul has a good piece up on CNN.com about the massive Wall St. Bailout plan being debated in Congress. He points out that government intervention is what got us into this mess. Unfortunately, the government's preferred solution to the crisis is the very thing that got us into this mess in the first place: government intervention. Paul then describes how meddling in the housing market leads to distortions in that market.

For those of you following the debate over internet freedom, you might find this video interesting. Rep. Ron Paul has been a stalwart defender of internet freedom over the years. Rep.