Many of the often talked about potential Republican candidates to succeed Donald Trump in the presidency are supporters of Trump’s war against Iran. This includes two people at the top of many lists who are among the Trump administration’s most vocal Iran War...
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Increasing the National Debt to Pay for the Iran War
by Adam Dick | Mar 27, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Death and destruction continue to mount in the Middle East due to the Iran War that the United States and Israel governments initiated at the end of February. While Americans an ocean away have been spared the costs imposed directly by missile strikes and other...
Now that the Dow has Dropped, Can AG Pam Bondi Answer Questions?
by Adam Dick | Mar 26, 2026 | Featured Articles
A United States executive branch official evading answering questions at a congressional hearing is not a new thing. But, on February 11, Attorney General Pam Bondi took the evasion to a new level. There she was complaining that the House Judiciary Committee members...
Keeping DHS Unfunded
by Adam Dick | Mar 19, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In January, I wrote about Democrats in the United States Senate proposing a group of changes in US immigration enforcement. Listing some of the suggested changes, I summed them up as largely the adopting of restraints at the US government level “that have generally...
National Counterterrorism Center Director Resigns, Saying He “Cannot in Good Conscience Support the Ongoing War in Iran”
by Adam Dick | Mar 17, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A high-level national security official in the Trump administration resigned from his position on Tuesday. National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent cited as the reason for his resignation that he “cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran.”...
US Citizenship Renunciation Fee Has a Big Reduction
by Adam Dick | Mar 15, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There was some good news for liberty on Friday. That is when a roughly 80 percent reduction in the fee the United States government imposes on individuals giving up their US citizenship took effect. The fee was lowered from 2,350 dollars to 450 dollars. The move...
Peter Schiff Discusses Harm to the American Economy from the War on Iran
by Adam Dick | Mar 12, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Economist and investor Peter Schiff, speaking in the Wednesday episode of his Peter Schiff Show, gave an insightful rundown of some of the economic damage coming to America because President Donald Trump “decided that he was going to go to war with Iran” despite there...
As Congress Looks On, President Trump Rules by Decree
by Adam Dick | Mar 10, 2026 | Congress Alert
Wars of choice, a plethora of changing tariffs and sanctions on countries across the world, and a historically high number of executive orders characterize the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidential term. And all this has been accomplished by the executive...
Price Increase at the Gas Pump: Donald Trump Did That
by Adam Dick | Mar 4, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Back in 2022, media was reporting on people affixing to gas pumps stickers with a photo of then President Joe Biden pointing toward the gas price display on the gas pumps. The text “I DID THAT!” prominently accompanied the photo on the stickers. People putting the...
Whoops! Trump Says the Initial Attack on Iran Killed the People He Wanted to Put in Charge of Iran
by Adam Dick | Mar 2, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
United States President Donald Trump is coming to resemble more and more the kooky and dangerous characters who led the US into nuclear war in Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove. It is black humor in real life. The craziest example may be President Trump telling...
Trump Gets Gas Price Wrong in the State of the Union
by Adam Dick | Feb 25, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Donald Trump, unlike his predecessor in office Joe Biden, talks with reporters quite frequently. In those press conferences and other interactions, Trump makes some misstatements of fact. To an extent it makes sense to cut him some slack regarding...
Was MAHA Too Good to Last in the Trump Administration?
by Adam Dick | Feb 21, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Donald Trump’s presidential administration has been a big disappointment in several major areas, including the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) prospect of reducing government spending and the America First prospect of the United States government pursuing a...
Travelers Take a Pass on Visiting America
by Adam Dick | Feb 20, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Donald Trump, who started his second term as United States president a little over a year ago, likes to talk about how he is making America great again. But, for foreigners planning their trips abroad, it appears Trump has played a significant role in reducing their...
The US Government’s Pathetic Effort to Save Survivors of Blown Up ‘Narco-terrorism’ Boats
by Adam Dick | Feb 18, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US military has, since early September, been blowing up small boats and killing their occupants in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. This killing spree has been undertaken based on evidence-free “trust me bro” claims that the boats were being used by...
Grand Jury Refuses to Support Trump Administration’s Absurd Effort to Indict Congress Members
by Adam Dick | Feb 11, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Grand juries in America, operating under rules heavily titled toward prosecutors, tend to acquiesce to just about all requests for indictments. Thus, it is quipped on occasion that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich. Grand juries have largely failed to live up...
Myanmar Will Always be Burma to the US Congress
by Adam Dick | Feb 11, 2026 | Congress Alert
On Monday, the United States House of Representatives approved via a voice vote the BRAVE Burma Act (HR 3190). The legislation would facilitate continuing sanctions against Myanmar, as well as pursuing other adversarial action against the country in Asia. It is yet...
The Department of Education Lives On
by Adam Dick | Feb 7, 2026 | Congress Alert
Last week, I wrote about the United States House of Representatives approving funding for the Department of Education for fiscal year 2026 at about the same level as each of the previous two years. This action, I suggested, was at odds with President Donald Trump, who...
Senate Democrats Offer Promising Ideas for Changing Immigration Enforcement
by Adam Dick | Jan 31, 2026 | Congress Alert
It is good to be cautious when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) proclaims he is promoting “common sense” ideas. But, looking at a listing of some of what he on Wednesday called “common-sense reforms, ones that Americans know and expect from law...
End the Department of Education? The US House of Representatives Votes to Fund It in Full.
by Adam Dick | Jan 28, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Donald Trump is not a small government guy. But, he has declared during his 2024 presidential campaign and since his intention to drastically reduce or even eliminate a Cabinet department — the Department of Education. A December report from the Bipartisan...
Craig Murray, Reporting from Venezuela
by Adam Dick | Jan 26, 2026 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Last year, British journalist and former diplomat Craig Murray provided valuable reports from Lebanon, documenting — among other things — death and destruction brought by Israel’s military. Now, Murray is on the ground in Venezuela, doing what he did in Lebanon last...
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