Speaking Tuesday before the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations regarding the implementation of REAL ID mandates on travelers, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem displayed...
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The Libertarian Party is on the Verge of ‘Full Collapse,’ Party Chairman Tells Board
by Adam Dick | May 5, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a Friday message to board members of the Libertarian National Committee that oversees the United States Libertarian Party, party Chairman Steven Nekhaila wrote that “This board may very well be the last one standing between the Libertarian National Committee and...
The House of Representatives Won’t Stop Approving Government Expansions
by Adam Dick | Apr 30, 2025 | Congress Alert
The Republican-majority United States House of Representatives demonstrated this week, through votes on several relatively modest bills, that it will just keep demanding more US government spending and control. Republican representatives often claim to support limited...

HHS – a Billy Club Enforcing Allegiance to the Israel Government
by Adam Dick | Apr 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
Supporters of liberty had much reason for hope due to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This man’s tenacity and eloquence in challenging the coronavirus crackdowns suggested great potential accomplishments...

Marco Rubio’s Free Speech Hypocrisy
by Adam Dick | Apr 21, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In an editorial last week, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio was touting his effort to ensure the US government respects free speech. But, Rubio is also a leader in the ongoing US government program that deports people from America because they have...
The Strangeness of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS Determining the Cause of Much Increased Autism Prevalence
by Adam Dick | Apr 18, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
During the coronavirus scare, bureaucrats in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) relentlessly claimed “the science” demanded that people stay isolated at home as much as possible, wear masks, keep at least six feet away from everyone else, refrain from...
Here We Go Again: US Department of Health and Human Services Funds and Fast-tracks Experimental Bird Flu Shots
by Adam Dick | Apr 16, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The first Donald Trump administration ushered in an American coronavirus crackdown that included among its putrid components “warp speed” production and distribution of experimental coronavirus “vaccine” shots, Those shots, though repeatedly touted by people in...
The Dud Flu Shots
by Adam Dick | Apr 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
“Getting vaccinated every year is the best way to lower your chances of getting the flu.” That is the declaration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at its website’s page dedicated to immunization for flu. The problem is that actual...
MAGA: Make Appliances Great Again
by Adam Dick | Apr 12, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In January, I wrote about President Donald Trump on his first day in office signing an executive order that appeared designed to help implement his express desire to roll back many of the United States government restrictions imposed over the last few decades that...

Disaster in the Making: Secretary of State Rubio Proclaims the US Should Spend Five Percent of GDP on ‘Defense’
by Adam Dick | Apr 12, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Since his first term, we have grown used to President Donald Trump badgering governments of fellow NATO countries to increase their “defense” spending to five percent of their respective GDPs. Quote marks are used in the preceding sentence because such spending by...
Do Snowflake White House Employees Need a Safe Space?
by Adam Dick | Apr 11, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It is an improvement that President Donald Trump has made himself many times more available for media questions than did Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden and Trump’s November election opponent Kamala Harris who notoriously made great effort to avoid reporters’ questions....
The Trump Administration: Haphazard, Incompetent, and Dangerous
by Adam Dick | Apr 10, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“A range of factions with mutually exclusive policy goals entered the Trump White House hoping the president would prioritize their particular political project.” So begins an interesting article by Christian Britschgi last week at Reason. It sounds like a setup for...
A DOGE Switcheroo
by Adam Dick | Apr 4, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many actions associated with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been met with support from advocates of reducing the size and power of the United States government. Spending has been halted, and US government employment rolls have been reduced. But,...
Trump Tariffs Demonstrate Presidency Without Constitutional Bounds
by Adam Dick | Apr 3, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The tariffs President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday are massive in size and scope, Indeed, some early analysis indicates Trump has raised the United States average tariff rate to higher than did the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 that contributed to the...
Donald Trump is Looking Like a War President
by Adam Dick | Mar 31, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Donald Trump ran for president presenting himself as the peace candidate. A little over two months into his presidency, Trump, however, appears to be establishing himself as a war president. Instead of quickly ending the US government’s support for war against Russia...
Voters Turn against Trump on Price Increases and Financial Conditions
by Adam Dick | Mar 30, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In the November of 2024 presidential election, CNN exit polling indicated that Donald Trump won the support of 76 percent of voters who answered that in the past year inflation had caused their families “severe hardship.” Now, less than five months later, voters are...
The Big Fall in the US Government’s Marijuana Arrests since States Started Legalizing
by Adam Dick | Mar 28, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Marijuana is still illegal under United States law, as it was before the waves through states to first legalize marijuana for medical use and then adopt, starting in 2012, “recreational marijuana” legalization. Faced with this expanding of respect for free choice, the...
Progress toward Ending US Government Funding for NPR and PBS
by Adam Dick | Mar 27, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On November 9, a few days after Donald Trump won election to return to the White House, I wrote an article titled “Defunding NPR.” In the article, I presented reasons why “a spending cut that jumps out as among the most obvious for [Department of Government Efficiency...
Using Medicalization to Suppress the Exercise of First Amendment Rights
by Adam Dick | Mar 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
A repugnant tactic of authoritarianism is categorizing people’s desire for or exercise of freedom as illness that government should suppress. An example of this was the deeming of dissidents in the Soviet Union as mentally ill to justify their detention and...
Australia Prime Minister Rejects Imposing ‘Self-harm’ Retaliatory Tariffs
by Adam Dick | Mar 13, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
United States President Donald Trump is out imposing tariffs of different sorts on products from countries across the world. In many instances, the governments of countries hit by tariffs have responded with retaliatory tariffs against America. Refreshingly, it looks...
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