Breitbart Op-Ed: President Hillary Clinton Would Have Been Proud of This Bill

Looking at all the smiling faces on the other side of the aisle, I have to ask: are Democrats still the minority party? 

You would be tempted to think the $1 trillion government funding deal is like Christmas morning for them, as Republicans have handed them free media to brag about how much of the President’s agenda they have stopped. 

You’ll see it in the news as an “Omnibus spending bill,” when it should really be called “the Status Quo Protection Act.” President Hillary Clinton would have been proud of this bill.

It tosses out campaign promises as it...Read more

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Rare Op-Ed: The U.S. should not fund Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen

American-built planes with American bombs were used by the Saudis to bomb a funeral procession in Yemen. Over 100 people were killed, and 500 mourners were wounded. Active duty American pilots have been refueling the planes dropping bombs across Yemen.

Sounds like war to me.

But when did we declare war on Yemen? When did Congress vote to authorize military force in Yemen? Who is the enemy, and why are we fighting them?

Let’s be clear: war was NOT declared by Congress, as the Constitution requires. Congress...Read more

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Breitbart Op-Ed: Real Men Cut Taxes

Real men (as well as pull-no-punches women) cut taxes. The lesser mortals that tend to inhabit Washington wring their hands and get all weak in the knees when it comes to cutting taxes. Rumors are President Trump will propose a real tax cut. I certainly hope so. 

Once upon a time, most Republicans believed in tax cuts. Somewhere along the way, inside the beltway especially, Republicans forgot about the benefits of cutting taxes. Republicans became more concerned with government keeping “its” revenue than letting the people keep their money. 

Too many...Read more

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Fox News Op-Ed: Sen. Paul, Scott Bullock: Civil forfeiture has ruined countless lives. It's long overdue for reform

Justice Clarence Thomas made headlines last month when he criticized civil forfeiture, a notorious police practice that allows law enforcement to confiscate property, even from people who have never been charged with a crime. “This system,” he wrote, “has led to egregious and well-chronicled abuses.”

Hearing one of the Supreme Court’s most conservative members denounce such a...Read more

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Rare Op-Ed: Ron and Rand Paul: Now is the time to pass Audit the Fed

As presidents and Congresses come and go, the addiction to busting the budget remains; its voraciousness fueled by the same enabler, the Federal Reserve.

While it took our nation more than 225 years to accumulate nearly $20 trillion in debt (and much, much more if you factor in unfunded liabilities), our central bank can put Americans on the hook for trillions without blinking by simply creating whatever funds it needs out of thin air. Its status as “the lender of last resort” signs a blank check for politicians to spend to their heart’s content without worrying about the...Read more

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TIME Op-Ed: Montenegro Joining NATO Is Against U.S. Interests

President Donald Trump said in his inaugural address: “We’ve defended other nation’s borders, while refusing to defend our own.” 

I couldn’t agree more. 

Today, the question is: Will we add yet another commitment to defend yet another foreign country? 

For decades, NATO has been an organization where the U.S. disproportionately spends our blood and...Read more

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Herald-Leader Op-Ed: "Trump moves toward relief from water rule that threatens coal industry, farmers"

From my first days representing Kentucky in the U.S. Senate, I pledged to fight back against the Obama administration’s war on Kentucky coal, which imposed suffocating regulations on our hardworking miners and their families.

While we may have once used words such as “struggling” and “devastated” to report on the state of our coal industry, I think it’s time for a new outlook and description: “optimistic.”

We’ve rarely, if ever, seen a positive news story about Eastern Kentucky’s coal industry over the past eight years, but we learned last month that a mine in Knott County...Read more

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ICYMI: Dr. Paul, Rep. Meadows: Let's fully repeal ObamaCare, and then have an open debate on how to replace it.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, in a joint op-ed at FoxNews.com, U.S. Senator Rand Paul and U.S. House Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows called on congressional leadership to pass a clean repeal of Obamacare right away and ensure a fair, open replacement process so all voices are heard.

“If anyone tells you there isn’t a plan that can both keep our promises to repeal, and work in a bipartisan, open way for replace, tell them conservatives have a plan to do just that,” Dr. Paul and Rep. Meadows stated. “Now let’s hope our leadership will listen, because it is the only way they’re going...Read more

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ICYMI: Dr. Rand Paul: President Trump Should Reject Failed Foreign Policy Advisers

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an op-ed published today at Rare, U.S. Senator Rand Paul urged President Trump to reject the neoconservatives’ nation-building, perpetual war philosophy by selecting a Deputy Secretary of State that can be trusted to implement the administration’s agenda. 

“One of the things I like most about President Trump is his acknowledgement that nation-building does not work and actually works against the nation-building we need to do here at home,” said Dr. Paul in the piece. “With a $...Read more

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Rare Op-Ed: Repeal all of Obamacare and replace immediately

Congress will, as its first course of action, vote to repeal Obamacare. It cannot happen soon enough.

All around us, Obamacare crumbles in chaos. Premiums are exploding. The state-run health co-ops are mostly bankrupt. Many individuals who gained subsidized insurance are still, for all practical purposes, without insurance because the deductibles are beyond the reach of low income workers.

As we repeal Obamacare, we would be wise to vote on its replacement at the same time.

What should we replace Obamacare with? Perhaps we should try freedom:

1.  The...Read more

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