Rex Flex: Politics

The national ID battle, brewing for years, is now underway in earnest. On January 11, the Department of Homeland Security released its final rules on what states must do to implement REAL ID, the national identification law Congress passed in 2005. Homeland Security has taken the gloves off. States have until May to accept the [...]

Of all the Republican and Democratic candidates for president, only one is proposing to actually cut government spending. That one, not surprisingly, is libertarian Republican Ron Paul. The rest — Republicans and Democrats alike — are proposing to *increase* government spending by anywhere from several billion to hundreds of billions of dollars. That’s the startling [...]

Overweight citizens in Mississippi will have to be weighed and measured before being allowed to order food in restaurants, if legislation introduced in that state becomes law. And if they’re found to be obese, it would be illegal for the restaurant to serve them. That’s the bright idea of three Mississippi state legislators, who have [...]

Wednesday night around 7:00 PM, I received a phone call from a friend who organizes the Ron Paul Meetup group in my area. He tells me that it has just come to his attention that Ron will be flying into Houston later that night and the short-notice plan was to produce a convoy of local [...]

The national media has been a bit slow to wake up to the importance of the Ron Paul phenomenon. Rep. Ron Paul is a Texas congressman who is a libertarian and a Republican running for president, but his candidacy is much bigger than one man’s cry in the wilderness for smaller government. Mr. Paul is [...]

2008 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul in discusion with Google executive Elliot Schrage as part of the company’s Candidates@Google series.

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood “The Monster”. But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a name on the dollar. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money [...]

Newspapers and TV shows have been buzzing with reports that libertarian Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul raised over 4 million dollars in just 24 hours, on November 5. If true, that would be the largest amount of money any Republican presidential candidate this year has raised in a single day. In fact, that’s remarkably close [...]

Thanks to local, state and federal politicians, you and your loved ones are in debt — big time. According to a groundbreaking story in USA TODAY, federal, state and local governments have run up unfunded obligations of $57.8 trillion. That amount is so huge it is almost impossible to fully grasp. But think of it [...]

The Conservative: I’m a conservative. I believe in individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government, except for: 1. Social Security; 2. Medicare; 3. Medicaid; 4. Welfare; 5. Drug laws; 6. Public schooling; 7. Federal grants; 8. Economic regulations; 9. Minimum-wage laws and price controls; 10. Federal Reserve System; 11. Paper money; 12. Income [...]