The Texas Lottery has paid out many millions of dollars to winners of its games of chance since voters in the state approved its creation in 1991. This week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a new lottery of sorts — the “Texas Antisemitism Lottery” — that could...
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That Time Scott Horton Proposed Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich Run Together on a Presidential Ticket
by Adam Dick | Apr 25, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Earlier this week, I wrote about a “what if” election scenario: What if Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, who had competed at the same time for, respectively, the Republican and Democratic presidential nomination, had instead run together on a presidential ticket? After...
The Kucinich/Paul Presidential Ticket that Never Was
by Adam Dick | Apr 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
In the United States House of Representatives, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was known for his progressive views, while Ron Paul (R-TX) was known for his libertarian views. There were many times when the two representatives disagreed about American policy and...
Good News: US Troops Are Set to Leave Niger
by Adam Dick | Apr 20, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The United States military has a tendency to park itself in a country and not budge even after its presence has proven catastrophic or the government of the country has demanded it leave. Well, here is some good news. Daphne Psaledakis at Reuters reported Friday that...
Speaker Mike Johnson: The Only Options are Ukrainian or American Troops at War with Russia
by Adam Dick | Apr 18, 2024 | Congress Alert
United States House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has turned out to be an uber warmonger. He put this attitude on display in a Wednesday press conference in which he declared “I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys” as support for...
See Texas in Your Kei Truck
by Adam Dick | Apr 16, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In the 1950s Dinah Shore sang her encouragement to “see the USA in your Chevrolet.” Decades later, some Americans would like to take that road trip in their kei trucks imported from Asia. But, for the time being, legal restrictions may cause them to limit that road...
A Glimmer of Hope for Julian Assange
by Adam Dick | Apr 10, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Julian Assange is very near the end of his appeal process in his effort to prevent his extradition from Great Britain to the United States, where he is set to be prosecuted for making public US government secrets — practicing journalism. On Wednesday, US President Joe...
Still Trying to End the Vietnam War Killings
by Adam Dick | Apr 10, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Vietnam War ended nearly 50 years ago. Still, the killing and maiming is not over. People continue to suffer from and succumb to injuries from the war long past. And others, often people born since the war’s end, are killed or injured by the explosion of some of...
Ron Paul Is Worried About the US Government, Not China or Russia
by Adam Dick | Apr 9, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
David Lin, in the Monday episode of the David Lin Report, asked libertarian communicator Ron Paul what nations Paul considers top adversaries or competitors internationally, suggesting that World War III could arise from conflict with one of them. In response, Paul...
In New Bird Flu Scare Comes Tacit Admission Coronavirus Was Not a Big Deal
by Adam Dick | Apr 5, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“Bird flu pandemic could be ‘100 times worse’ than COVID, scientists warn.” That is the headline at the New York Post for one of many media reports out Thursday spreading the latest pandemic scare. Note the “100 times worse” comparison. Why not “nearly as bad,” “as...
Dennis Kucinich Echoes George Washington in Discussing the Sad State of the US Congress
by Adam Dick | Apr 2, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The United States Congress is in a sad state. The American people recognize this, holding Congress in very low regard. Dennis Kucinich, who served in the House of Representatives from 1997 to 2013 as a Democratic representative from Ohio and is seeking to return to...
When a Gallon of Wine Is Not Enough
by Adam Dick | Mar 28, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Say you are planning a big event for which you’ll want to have on hand a bunch of wine. State legal restrictions may allow you to only buy relatively small bottles of wine from a local store. In Florida. the legal maximum amount of wine in wine bottles sold to the...
Dennis Kucinich Files Ballot Access Petitions for US House Run as an Independent
by Adam Dick | Mar 28, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In January, Dennis Kucinch began his campaign as an independent candidate to return to the United State House of Representatives, seeking to represent an Ohio district that overlaps with the area he represented as a Democrat in the House from 1997 to 2013. As an...
Will the US Government Assassinate Benjamin Netanyahu?
by Adam Dick | Mar 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
You may think that Benjamin Netanyahu would be just about the least likely foreign government leader for the United States government to assassinate. After all, he is the prime minister of Israel, a nation to which US President Joe Biden and all top congressional...
Eradicating Health in Gaza
by Adam Dick | Mar 18, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In December I wrote about how “the biggest contributor to inflicting death in Gaza will likely be the Israel government causing the loss of necessities for health, including nutrition, sanitation, shelter, and medical aid.” Sad confirmation of this prediction...
Two Speeches Aspirational for Peace and Critical of War by President Dwight D. Eisenhower
by Adam Dick | Mar 16, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Aside from being president of the United States for two terms spanning from January of 1953 through January of 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower is likely best known in America and around the world for his activities as a US Army general during and after World War II....
Eight Senators Urge President Biden to End Offensive Military Aid to Israel if Israel Keeps Blocking US Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
by Adam Dick | Mar 12, 2024 | Congress Alert
We are five months into Israel’s devastating attacks on Gaza that President Joe Biden’s administration has continuously supported with the provision of weapons and intelligence essential to the war effort despite Congress not appropriating money for such. All the...
Sen. Rand Paul Legislation Could Uncover Regulatory Corruption
by Adam Dick | Mar 10, 2024 | Congress Alert
Regulatory capture is a phrase used to describe when a government agency charged with placing limits on businesses becomes influenced or directed by some of the very businesses it is tasked with restraining. As a result, the businesses that do the capturing can obtain...
Texas and the Restoration of a Gold Standard
by Adam Dick | Mar 7, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There has been increasing talk about the potential restoration of a gold standard arising from people and governments across the world seeking to protect themselves from the weaponization of the United States dollar’s world reserve currency status. How long can dollar...
George Galloway Returns to the British House of Commons
by Adam Dick | Mar 1, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ready for him or not, the British House of Commons again has George Galloway as a member. On Friday, Galloway, running as a candidate of the Workers Party for the town of Rochdale, was elected to return to the House of Commons. Many Americans first learned of Galloway...
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