Interviewed Sunday by Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation at CBS, United States House of Representatives members Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) argued that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority in ordering this weekend’s US military attack on Iran....
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Ron Paul Rewind: No War on Iran Without a Congressional Declaration of War
by Adam Dick | Jun 19, 2025 | Featured Articles
It is déjà vu concerning the United States going to war against Iran. Back in a February of 2012 Republican presidential nomination race debate, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) was asked about if the US should go to war against Iran because of the same purported threat that...
Trump’s Iran War and Bush’s Iraq War
by Adam Dick | Jun 18, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many people have been comparing President Donald Trump’s ongoing push for war on Iran to a similar course taken by President George W. Bush in regard to Iraq a little over twenty years ago. And there are definitely similarities including allegations against the...
Bilderbergers Meet as Threat of World War III Looms
by Adam Dick | Jun 17, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It’s Bilderberg time again. Government and corporate pooh bahs met privately June 12 through 15 at a posh Stockholm, Sweden hotel for the by invitation only 71st Bilderberg meeting. As tends to be the case, war was a major focus among the Bilderberg hobnobbers. For...
Supreme Court Offers Some Hope for Restraining Cops
by Adam Dick | Jun 12, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Last month, I wrote about an example about how lawless police have become in America, noting that in recent oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the case of Martin v. United States “a lawyer for the US government argued, in the case concerning a wrong house...
Ron Paul Rewind: Don’t Ban Flag Burning
by Adam Dick | Jun 12, 2025 | Featured Articles
In a Tuesday speech at Fort Bragg, President Donald Trump declared that “people that burn the American flag should go to jail for one year,” something Trump proceeded to state he is working with United States senators to bring about. Twenty-two years ago this month,...
Libertarian National Committee Rebukes Former Libertarian Party Chairman
by Adam Dick | Jun 11, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Four months after her resignation as chairman of the United States Libertarian Party, Angela McArdle has been singled out for ostracism by the Libertarian National Committee (LNC) that oversees the party. “Whereas the Special Investigatory Committee finds that former...
Rep. Thomas Massie Introduces US Gold Reserves Audit Bill
by Adam Dick | Jun 6, 2025 | Congress Alert
The United States government says it has about 261 million troy ounces of gold in its gold reserves. That is rather impressive, if true. The US government is not a great role model for honesty, though. So, it seems a good idea to put its gold claim to the test....
Should Elon Musk Take Over the Libertarian Party? A Former Chairman of the Party Says ‘Yes.’
by Adam Dick | Jun 5, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
During the United States presidential election last year, then Libertarian Party Chairman Angela McArdle spoke openly of her desire to use the Libertarian Party to help elect Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump. She even arranged for Trump to make a...
The California Assembly Unanimously Votes Against a Tax
by Adam Dick | Jun 4, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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...
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...
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