How Ron Paul Changed the World

I remember like yesterday when Dr. Paul called me into his Member office in 203 Cannon with a draft of his famous “What If” speech. He had written it in his own hand and he asked me to go over it and clean it up a bit. Not unusual for how he writes: from the heart....

Congress Skips Epstein Files Vote For Trip To Israel

Dozens of Members of the US House are on their way to Israel on an AIPAC-paid trip after Speaker Johnson – also in Israel – called August recess early to avoid a vote on Rep. Thomas Massie’s resolution to release the Epstein files. Priorities?

The Runaway Texas Democrats

“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”— Ninth Amendment to the US Constitution When the Texas legislature decided to engage in the reapportionment of congressional districts in...

Trump is Taunting India But is an Emperor Without Clothes

The American Nobel laureate Pearl S. Buck handed down to the Nobel-aspirant American president Donald Trump a golden maxim but he seems oblivious of it — although his life is made of a surfeit of fiction. She wrote in her gripping historical novel The Living Reed: A...

Trump Pulls Trigger On India Mega-Tariff: Will It Backfire?

President Trump has followed through with his threats to add more tariffs on India after that country refused to stop purchasing Russian oil and petroleum products. Will the effective 50 percent tariff on Indian goods bring the “world’s largest democracy” to its...