Rand Paul

Rand Paul announced that he underwent surgery to have a portion of his lung removed, a lingering result of a 2017 violent assault by his next door neighbor, Rene Boucher, who tackled him from behind. Paul suffered six broken ribs in the attack and contracted pneumonia.

Attorney General Bill Bar will have a new deputy sheriff to go after those responsible for Russiagate, if John Ratcliffe is confirmed as new DNI, as Ray McGovern explains. By Ray McGovern Special to Consortium News Shortly before President Donald…Read more →

It increasingly looks like Trump is ginning up a war with Iran to get peoples' minds off the Mueller Report and the myriad other problems that are spinning out of control and drowning his presidency and his hopes for reelection. Maybe Venezuela? Yeah, there's always that...

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Rand Paul was tackled from behind by his leftist neighbor, Rene Boucher, and suffered six broken ribs, including three displaced fractures and recurrent pneumonia. Boucher was sentenced to 30 days in jail for the assault. A Kentucky jury awarded Paul $580,000 for damages and medical expenses.

Brian Kilmeade, a pro-war neocon, argues for US troops to remain in Syria to 'stop the next 9/11 attack'. Meanwhile, Senator Rand Paul points out that 99% of ISIS has been eradicated and that Syria should be able to finish the job. He says the US has been in Afghanistan for 17 years, and Islam needs to police Islam.

Via The American Conservative…

If Americans Knew | December 28, 2018 Israel and its American partisans have been complaining vociferously about President Trump’s recent decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria, a nation that Israel and pro-Israel neocons have long targeted. When Trump was recently asked at a briefing in Iraq whether the troop withdrawal would leave Israel in jeopardy, […]

This is the first time Congress has invoked the War Powers Act to vote to end support for war since Vietnam.

Paul said that the Senate needs to take back foreign policy as the president lacks the authority to declare war without permission from the Senate. He supports a resolution requiring President Trump to stop support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen.