California has earned a reputation for high taxes. Yet, this week there is a sign of hope for tax resistance in the state legislature. On Monday, the California Assembly voted unanimously to delay by five years a tax increase that had been set to go into effect on...
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Vaping Madness at the FDA
by Adam Dick | May 30, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“For the children.” That is a go-to justification for politicians and bureaucrats seeking to infringe on individual rights. It was on display last week in the final minutes of the testimony of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary before a...
DOGE Failure
by Adam Dick | May 28, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Elon Musk, the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency in Donald Trump’s presidential administration, has expressed in a new interview his disappointment in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which the United States House of Representatives approved last week....

The Ten Seconds Census
by Adam Dick | May 27, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is in the news for claiming it has eliminated several Census Bureau surveys and that it will be reviewing others in turn. That may do some good. But how about the US government takes a much bigger step and limits the...

James Comey should be in Prison for Putting a Hit on Donald Trump?
by Adam Dick | May 19, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Donald Trump’s presidential administration has made it clear it is an opponent of free speech through its cracking down on individuals and colleges in an effort to silence negative comments about the Israel government. This animosity to free speech was widely reported...
A Peculiar Measure of the Prevalence of ‘Antisemitism’
by Adam Dick | May 14, 2025 | Congress Alert
On Wednesday, the United States House of Representatives approved yet again legislation (this time H. Res. 352) to counter “antisemitism” — something the US government has been redefining for its purposes as going beyond being related to race, ethnicity, or religion...
Lawless Cops
by Adam Dick | May 12, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Cops enforce laws. On first impression that may seem a good thing as one considers long in place laws, such as against assault, murder, and theft, that can help protect individuals’ ability to live in peace. But, laws have proliferated over time in America so that...
US House Approves MEGOBARI Act to Pursue in Georgia More Ukraine-style Intervention and Conflict with Russia
by Adam Dick | May 9, 2025 | Congress Alert
We have seen this play out before, the United States government relentlessly acting to control the government in a former Soviet Union republic bordering Russia and then proceeding to support that government in war against Russia. That course of action has led to...
Kristi Noem’s Authoritarian Take on Travel
by Adam Dick | May 6, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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...
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...
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