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Ron Paul - Liberty, Not Government, is Key to Containing Ebola
Ron Paul - Liberty, Not Government, is Key to Containing Ebola.

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Ron Paul answers questions from Voices of Liberty premium members during a live video chat!
Ron Paul answers questions from Voices of Liberty premium members during a live video chat!

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Over the weekend, we were down in Nashville at the Stansberry Conference Series event, along with Ron Paul, Porter Stansberry, Jim Rickards and others.

The question on the table: Whats ahead for the US?

Ron Paul took up the question from a geopolitical angle. He told the crowd that the military-security industry had Congress in its pocket.

As a result, we can expect more borrowing, more spending and more pointless and futile wars. They may be bad for the country and its citizens, says Paul, but they are good for the people who make fighter jets and combat fatigues.

Weve been at war in the Middle East for decades, he said. We supported Osama bin Laden against the Soviets in Afghanistanand the result of that was the creation of al-Qaeda.

Then we supported Saddam Hussein against Iran. Saddam and bin Laden hated each other. But after 9/11 we attacked Saddam, using a bunch of lies to justify it. We sent over military equipment worth hundreds of billions of dollars. This equipment is now in the hands of ISIS another enemy we createdand a far more dangerous one.

Ron Paul is such a pure-hearted soul. What was a man like him doing in Congress?

It must have been some sort of electoral accident. Good men rarely run for public office. And when they do, it is even rarer for them to win.

Poor Ron is retired from Congress now. And he spends his time trying to get the word out. He thinks that if people only realised what was happening they would vote for more responsible leaders and more sensible policies.

Alas, thats not the way it works. The further the country goes in the wrong direction, the more people there are who have a financial interest in staying on the same road.

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Ron Paul has run for president three times and says he hasn't pushed his son to take the plunge But he's glad, he told Larry King, that Rand Paul has decided to run for president A Rand Paul campaign insider told MailOnline, however, that no decision has been made The Paul father-son duo would be the third to both run for the White House, after the Adamses and the Bushes

By David Martosko, Us Political Editor for MailOnline

Published: 15:38 EST, 17 October 2014 | Updated: 16:39 EST, 17 October 2014

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Former Texas Rep. and perennial presidential candidate Ron Paul may have let his son's campaign cat out of the bag on Friday, telling longtime TV host Larry King that his son, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, is running for the White House in 2016.

'Yes, I think it's great he's doing it,' the elder Paul said on King's show 'PoliticKing,'produced by ORA.tv and broadcast on the RT (Russia Today) network.

'He has a good message and he understand free-market economics and I just think that its doing a world of good. But I also know the power and strength of the establishment and its a tough row to hoe.'

But a Rand Paul campaign insider familiar with the politician's decision-making told MailOnline hours later that his father got ahead of himself, saying that 'Senator Paul has not made a decision yet.'

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Three-time presidential hopeful Dr. Ron Paul will speak about current news issues ahead of the upcoming mid-term elections on Friday, October 31st, as part of the National Center for Policy Analysis'Hatton W. Sumners Distinguished Lecture Series.

Media are invited to attend and cover. Recording is restricted to the first 5 minutes of speech.

Dr. Paul served in the U.S. Air Force as a flight surgeon in the 1960s before winning his first Congressional bid in the mid-1970s and served nine terms until his retirement last year. Paul made three unsuccessful bids for nomination as a presidential candidate as a Libertarian in 1988 and as a Republican in 2008 and 2012.

In Congress, Paul served on the House Banking Committee, where he was a strong advocate for sound monetary policy and an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve. He also was a key member of the Gold Commission, advocating a return to a gold standard.

Paul continues to work for limited constitutional government through organizations he has founded, including the Foundation for Rational Economics and Education (FREE), Campaign for Liberty, and Liberty PAC, and his online network The Ron Paul Channel. His son, Rand, has been the junior GOP senator for Kentucky since his election in 2011.

Ron Pauls latest book, The School Revolution, offers a provocative look at Americas broken education system and what Americans can do to fix it.

Ron Pauls address kicks off a full weekend of notable speakers and events for more than 60 of the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation scholarship recipients, hosted by the NCPA. Media wishing to cover can contact Catherine Daniell.

For public information on tickets for the Ron Paul luncheon event, visit: http://www.ncpa.org/events/ron-paul

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Ron Paul on Monday said that calls for a ban on travel from West African countries affected by Ebola are primarily politically motivated just days after his son Sen. Rand Paul announced his support for one.

Appearing on Newsmax TVs Americas Forum with former Arizona Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth, Ron Paul said he wouldnt support a travel ban. Right now, I would say a travel ban is politically motivated more than something done for medical purposes, the former Texas congressman and three-time presidential candidate told Hayworth.

Rand Paul, the Kentucky senator openly considering a 2016 presidential bid, said on a radio show last week that a temporary travel ban is only reasonable, BuzzFeed noted Monday.

(Also on POLITICO: Rubio to introduce travel ban bill)

Many lawmakers and elected officials, mostly Republicans, have called for the Obama administration to ban travel to the U.S. from West Africa, the region where Ebola is having the heaviest impact. On Monday, GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida announced he would be introducing legislation to create a temporary ban on new visas from the affected West African countries. The White House and many public health experts have pushed back against a ban, saying it would be ineffective and potentially harmful and make it more difficult to root out the disease for good.

Ron Paul, a favorite within the libertarian community, said the death of Thomas Eric Duncan, who died earlier in October in the U.S. after apparently contracting Ebola in Liberia, was not enough to justify a travel ban. Were talking about one person thats died, and we want to close down the world travel system, and yet right now, it doesnt look anything like that kind of a problem, he said. He also noted that the expected U.S. death toll for influenza is far higher than that for Ebola.

When asked whether he agreed with his sons views on Ebola, Ron Paul added: Probably not exactly, but I havent dissected every single thing.

His comments come after an interview last week with Larry King, in which the former congressman called the response in the U.S. to Ebola hysterical and way overblown.

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We were down in Nashville this weekend, along with Ron Paul, Porter Stansberry, Jim Rickards and others.

The question on the table was whats ahead for the US?

Dr Paul took up the question from a geo-political point of view. He told the crowd that the military/security industry had Congress in its pocket. As a result, we can expect more borrowing, more spending and more pointless and futile wars.

Wars may be bad for the country and its citizens, says Ron, but they are good for the people who make fighter jets and combat fatigues.

Weve been at war in the Mideast for decades, he said. We supported Osama bin Laden against the Soviets in Afghanistan and the result of that was the creation of Al Qaeda. Then, we supported Saddam Hussein against Iran. Saddam and bin Laden hated each other, but after 9/11 we attacked Saddam, using a bunch of lies to justify it. We sent over billions and billions of dollars worth of military equipment, which is now in the hands of Isil which is another enemy we created and a far more dangerous one.

Ron Paul is such a pure-hearted soul. What was a man like him doing in Congress? It must have been some sort of electoral accident.

Good men rarely run for public office. And when they do, it is even rarer for them to win.

Poor Ron is retired from Congress now and spending his time trying to get the word out. He thinks that if people only realised what was happening they would vote for more responsible leaders and more sensible policies.

Alas, thats not the way it works. The further the country goes in the wrong direction, the more people there are who have a financial interest in staying on the same road.

Once we visited Ron in his office on Capitol Hill. He held a breakfast meeting with a small group of fellow Congressmen, trying to convince them to vote his way; we dont remember what was at issue.

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Politicking: Ron Paul Blasts #39;Deeply Flawed #39; U.S. Foreign Policy
Former Republican congressman three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul tells Larry how he #39;d handle ISIS why he thinks U.S. Foreign Policy is to blame for the group #39;s rise. Plus, he opens...

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Rand Paul represents a new breed of Libertarian who might rejuvenate the GOP by John Connolly | Sep 25 2014 | 09/25/14 12:55am

Rand Paul is perhaps the most intriguing potential 2016 presidential candidate. Rand is not his father committed libertarian Ron Paul, who developed a passionate but ultimately small movement of devoted followers and he seems to have largely escaped the lazy media narrative that he is just like his dad. Like his father, Paul brings unorthodox Republican policy positions onto the national stage. Unlike his father, he may have the mainstream appeal to pull off a Republican presidential primary victory, at the very least. According to a July poll, he leads all other potential Republican candidates in New Hampshire, and is tied for the lead in Iowa.

Rand Paul has the potential to change the Republican Party. Even if he does not win the Republican presidential primary, the ideas he brings to the table might inspire policy shifts among Republican voters and politicians. It is too early to tell whether Pauls flirtation with alternative positions will pay off, so he might be tempted to temper his platform in order to appeal to the traditional Republican primary voter. But doing so would be a grave mistake for the future of the party, as it is crucial that Republicans have substantive dialogue over hot-button issues such as mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes and Americas role in the international community. (Whether or not Pauls policy suggestions are actually good ones is up for debate. I find many of them to be dubious.)

Paul brings the most diverse platform to the 2016 Republican field. Like practically all of his Republican colleagues in the Senate, he is a budget hawk, supporting deep cuts in government spending. He is also a committed social conservative, supporting a definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, and opposing abortion in all cases, including rape or incest. This is par for the course among potential Republican candidates.

But his penchant for tackling issues not traditionally addressed by Republicans distinguishes him from his prospective primary peers. For instance, Paul has compared the War on Drugs to Jim Crow legislation in its effect on African-American men, pointing out that mandatory minimum sentencing laws do not lead to the arrests of drug kingpins, but rather, to the incarceration and often, the disenfranchisement of thousands of low-level drug dealers. Whats more, Paul has partnered with Democratic Senators Patrick Leahy and Chris Murphy to tackle this issue, a stroke of bipartisanship that few of his Republican colleagues have matched.

Paul most notably differs from his Republican colleagues on issues of the military and national defense. He has called for sweeping defense cuts, opposed the PATRIOT Act, and has proposed that the United States eliminate foreign aid. He has not gone as far as his father, who once declared the United States should eliminate all military bases on foreign soil, but he has stood up for libertarian conservatives who do not view the Iraq War as a quintessentially conservative approach to foreign policy. In an April editorial for National Review, Paul suggests neo-conservatism must be tempered with a dash of libertarianism, in recognition of governments inability to remake the world in its precise preferred image. William Buckley himself, one of the intellectual godfathers of modern conservatism, decried the decision to invade Iraq. As Jeffrey Hart wrote in a 2008 column, Buckley thought the conservative movement had committed intellectual suicide by supporting the war with almost no dissent. If real foreign policy discourse among conservatives is dead, then perhaps Rand Paul can help revive it.

If nothing else, Rand Paul brings a breath of fresh air to a Republican Party that desperately needs it. My hope is that Paul will continue to speak out on issues not ordinarily broached by Republicans, in addition to advocating for a more limited view of foreign policy than the brand practiced under both the Bush and Obama Administrations. I say it is my hope because evidence has suggested, in recent days, that Paul may be reshaping his foreign policy stance to be more consistent with the Republican platform of the last ten years. As the Wall Street Journal pointed out, Paul has backed airstrikes against Islamic militants in Syria and Iraq, bringing him more in line with the GOP mainstream.

A shift to the center might make him more appealing to the average Republican voter, but Paul should be careful not to lose his distinctiveness in the process. What makes Paul intriguing is his willingness to buck party lines, to reach out to minorities through his condemnation of mandatory minimums, and to hold a foreign policy position several rungs to the left of Hillary Clinton and other prominent Democrats. He has the power to start a worthwhile dialogue within the Republican Party. It is my hope that he does not throw this away.

John Connolly is an Opinion Columnist for The Cavalier Daily. His columns run bi-weekly on Thursdays.

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Ron Paul: Ebola panic is much more dangerous than the disease itself
Three time presidential candidate, former Republican congressman Ron Paul joins Larry King on Politicking to talk about Ebola, Obama, ISIS and his son, Raud Paul #39;s White House hopes. RT...

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