Dr. Rand Paul’s Op-Eds

Democrats claim to want to unify the country, but impeaching a former president, a private citizen, is the antithesis of unity. This impeachment is nothing more than a partisan exercise designed to divide the country further.They have brazenly appointed an openly...

After President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who currently sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, I said I believed Judge Barrett would make an excellent justice that would serve our country...

In his speech to the Republican National Convention Thursday night, President Trump said if you want the rest of the country to look like Portland, Ore., put the Democrats fully in charge and that's what you'll get.That's hard to argue with considering what we are...

Labor Day has passed, and in most years, the entire country would now be back to school. Kids would be learning, catching up with old friends, and swapping stories from the summer. Teachers would have decorated and readied themselves for a year of struggles and...

While I'm a big supporter of home schools, many single parents who work aren't able to teach their kids at home. Even some parents with advanced educational degrees simply don't want to teach their kids at home or believe their kids will listen more consistently to...

When Alice Johnson ran to embrace her family after her release from prison, she was a 63-year-old grandmother who spent almost 22 years behind bars. But Johnson was supposed to die in custody. The co-defendants who testified against her received sentences ranging from...

In a free society, citizens should be able to easily distinguish between civilian law enforcement tasked with keeping the peace in our communities and the armed forces tasked with protecting our country from foreign adversaries.Unfortunately, thanks to the federal...

It has been almost 20 years since our country went to war in Afghanistan. After 9/11, the American population rightfully demanded our forces take action against those who attacked us. Had I been in Congress I would have voted for that action.When a country goes to war...

Fatal conceit: it is the concept that central planning, with decision-making concentrated in a few hands, can never fully grasp the millions of complex individual interactions occurring simultaneously in the marketplace.It is a fatal conceit to believe any one person...

The Roman Judge Lucius Cassius is reported to have often used the phrase: "Cui bono" or "who benefits?"That very question needs to be asked in examining why an intelligence officer in our government committed a felony by releasing classified information alleging that...