In Milan Kundera’s debut novel The Joke, the character Ludvik Jahn in communist Czechoslovakia is expelled from college and the Communist Party and ends up conscripted to a hard labor camp as a result of a joke he included in a post card message to a friend. The joke...
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President Trump’s Terrible Miami Vice Reboot
by Adam Dick | Sep 12, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Back in the 1980s, I was not a fan of the television show Miami Vice. The focus of the show — cops Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs enforcing laws against vice — was not appealing. Stop the crackdown on vice — including by bowing out of the war on drugs — and follow a...
Gun Rights Are People’s Rights
by Adam Dick | Sep 9, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“Take the guns first; go through due process second,” recommended Donald Trump in a meeting with Congress members during his first term as president. Through this comment offered in support of imposing rights-trampling “red flag” laws to deprive people of their guns,...
Louisiana Surgeon General Warns Parents about ‘Authoritarian’ American Academy of Pediatrics
by Adam Dick | Sep 6, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In February, I highlighted a statement by Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph L. Abraham, commending it for its pro-freedom tone. I also noted that “I will be watching for follow-up actions.” Well, on Thursday, Abraham came out with a powerful editorial again strongly...
Florida Surgeon General Announces Plan to End All Vaccine Mandates in the State
by Adam Dick | Sep 4, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In July, the American Academy of Pediatrics, which was recently criticized by United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for its major financial backing from and cozy relationship with Big Pharma, launched an effort urging state and local...

President Trump May Be Turning Against the Coronavirus Shots, His Operation Warp Speed, and Big Pharma
by Adam Dick | Sep 2, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
One area where President Donald Trump, from his first presidential term until the last few days, has been at odds with many of his supporters is in his insistence on praising the coronavirus “vaccines” that have been distributed in America and his Operation Warp Speed...

President Trump Bails on the Constitution
by Adam Dick | Aug 30, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Eighth Amendment of the Bill of Rights addresses the national government’s power in regard to bail. As with many other provisions in this set of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, the declaration regarding bail is one of limitation on the national...
Good for Woody Allen
by Adam Dick | Aug 25, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As the United States and Russia governments have over the last decade-plus drifted into relations that bring to mind the cold war and that have brought forward the prospect of descent into nuclear war, there has been much effort from within America and other NATO...
The People Score Two Victories Against Automated License Plate Readers
by Adam Dick | Aug 25, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Eleven years back, John W. Whitehead warned in his weekly column about the danger from government’s proliferating use of automated license plate readers across America. Whitehead included these devices among the tools being employed in the construction of what he...
Health Secretary Kennedy Challenges Pediatricians Organization and Its Pharma Backers
by Adam Dick | Aug 24, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has long been an adamant pusher for children in America to be given an increasingly long list of shots at an early age as laid out in the childhood vaccine schedule of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....
The Ron Paul Institute Conference is Next Weekend! Conference Tickets and Hotel Rooms Are Still Available.
by Adam Dick | Aug 4, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
You still have time to obtain tickets for the Ron Paul Institute’s annual conference near Dulles Airport in Virginia, and to book your guest room at the conference hotel at a special reduced rate. The Saturday August 16 conference titled “Blueprint for Peace” provides...
The Happy Penny
by Adam Dick | Aug 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
On Saturday, I received three pennies in change at a store. Looking at the pennies in my hand, one jumped out for its unique color. I was happy to see it — the happy penny. Sometimes I have to look at the date on a penny to see if it is one of those increasingly rare...
Pediatricians Organization Says Eliminate Almost All Vaccine Exemptions for Children
by Adam Dick | Jul 30, 2025 | Featured Articles
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) distinguished itself as an obsessive shots pusher and freedom theatener during the coronavirus crackdown. It was admonishing that children — who were at very minimal risk from coronavirus — be subjected to the quack practices...
Starving Gazans
by Adam Dick | Jul 23, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Gazans are starving. They are starving because of the actions of the Israel government, undertaken with the critical support of the United States government. A Wednesday statement signed on to by over 100 aid organizations describes how the Israel government has...
Just Six US House Members Vote Against Sending Israel Another Half Billion Dollars in Military Aid
by Adam Dick | Jul 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
Special interests are continually finagling to gain more support from the United States government that oversees a vast trove of money and power. A vote just after midnight Friday morning in the US House of Representatives suggests that the government of Israel is at...
The Divine Right of Donald Trump
by Adam Dick | Jul 16, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many people, including President Donald Trump, have been suggesting over the last year that, because Trump survived being shot at during the 2024 presidential campaign, he and the things he does are endorsed by God. Indeed, this week, Trump, speaking with a reporter...
US Justice Department Drops Charges against Dr. Moore
by Adam Dick | Jul 12, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Earlier today I wrote about the United States Department of Justice under the Donald Trump administration continuing the prosecution of Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, Jr. because of actions he was accused of taking to protect patients from the dangers of coronavirus...
Trump Administration Continues Effort to Throw in Prison a Doctor Who Thwarted the Coronavirus Crackdown
by Adam Dick | Jul 12, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In January of 2023, the United States government’s coronavirus crackdown set its sights on the medical practice of Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, Jr., with the US Department of Justice charging him and three other individuals with crimes stemming from the allegation that the...
FDA Gives Full Approval to Moderna’s mRNA Coronavirus Shot for ‘At-risk’ Children
by Adam Dick | Jul 10, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
This is not the kind of news many supporters of the placement of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in charge of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wanted to see come out of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now under his purview. Reuters...
The Easily Excited Homeland Security Secretary
by Adam Dick | Jul 9, 2025 | Featured Articles
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a press conference Tuesday at Ronald Reagan National Airport where she stood before flags, banners, and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees. Starting off her prepared statement, Noem...
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