Texas Straight Talk
A weekly column
- June 30, 2008: Personal Freedoms and the Internet
- The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren’t infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free. Socialist ideologies blur this line between self reliance …
Speeches and Statements
- May 20, 2008: March to War in Lebanon?
- "Madam Speaker I rise in opposition to H. Res. 1194 because it is dangerously interventionist and will likely lead to more rather than less violence in the Middle East."
Press Releases
- May 14, 2008: Congressman Paul Questions Former Fed Chairman Volcker
- “This morning at a Joint Economics Committee Hearing Congressman Ron Paul had the opportunity to question former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker on the economy and the credit crisis."
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