The Ludwig von Mises Institute is putting on an event on November 7 in Angleton, Texas at which prominent libertarian communicator Ron Paul will be the featured speaker. The event, titled Symposium with Ron Paul, is hosted by Lew Rockwell and Jeff Deist of the Mises...
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College Coronavirus Madness Can Put Students at Risk of Dying in Fires
by Adam Dick | Oct 16, 2020 | Featured Articles
Despite most college students being at very low risk of becoming seriously sick from coronavirus, much less dying from it, colleges across America have implemented extreme, often prison-like, restrictions on campuses in the name of countering coronavirus. These...
Ron Paul’s Mixed Review of Donald Trump’s Presidency
by Adam Dick | Oct 13, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Libertarian communicator Ron Paul, at the start of a new interview at landry.audio, gave a mixed review of Donald Trump’s actions as president. Paul begins his comments about how Trump has done as president by noting that Trump is “all over the place.” Paul continues,...
President Trump Said on October 5, Do Not ‘Be Afraid of Covid’ or ‘Let It Dominate Your Life.’ Many Republicans Already Thought Along Those Lines.
by Adam Dick | Oct 9, 2020 | Featured Articles
On October 5, President Donald Trump commented at Twitter that he would be leaving later that day from Walter Reed Medical Center where he had received medical treatment related to his having been infected with coronavirus. In the tweet, Trump also stated: “Don’t be...
Will Indiana’s Donald Rainwater Win a Record-breaking Libertarian Party Governor Candidate Vote Total?
by Adam Dick | Oct 6, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Indiana’s Republican Governor Eric J. Holcomb has lost support from many individuals who months back would be counted as within his solid base of support for his reelection in the upcoming November election. Much of the reason for this loss of support appears to arise...
Michigan Supreme Court Rules Against Governor’s Coronavirus Mandates
by Adam Dick | Oct 3, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Some of the harshest coronavirus mandates in America have been imposed by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. On Friday, the state Supreme Court ruled against the continuation of those unilateral mandates, saying under state law they should have expired months ago....
Kudos to Van Morrison and Eric Clapton for Trying to Save Live Music
by Adam Dick | Oct 2, 2020 | Featured Articles
Coronavirus crackdowns have been devastating to live music performances. Venues have been shut down. Large gatherings have been banned. Even when venues have been allowed to reopen, they have been subjected to occupancy limits and other restrictions that can prevent...
Anti-Trump Bias in the Media? John Stossel Finds Plenty
by Adam Dick | Sep 30, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“It’s clear that most reporters don’t like Trump — or even Republicans,” concludes John Stossel in his Wednesday article “Media Bias” at his website johnstossel.com. In the 2016 presidential election won by Trump, Stossel continues, “96 percent of journalists’...
Drug War Rollbacks on Voters’ Ballots in November
by Adam Dick | Sep 28, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In March, I wrote about how coronavirus fear and government crackdowns undertaken in the name of countering coronavirus could be expected to prevent some drug war rollback measures from being included on November general election ballots. Qualifying such measures for...
The Coronavirus Crackdown Hour with Adam Dick
by Adam Dick | Sep 26, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Saturday, I returned as a guest at the Patriot’s Lament show at KFAR radio of Fairbanks, Alaska. The one-hour interview with hosts Joshua Bennett and Michael Anderson is focused almost entirely on the coronavirus crackdowns people have been suffering under for the...
Walter Block, the Energizer Bunny of Academic Publications
by Adam Dick | Sep 24, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Walter Block, like the Energizer Bunny of television adverts, keeps going and going and going. Block, a professor of economics at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, wrote Tuesday at lewrockwell.com that he has reached the milestone of having authored 600...
The No-Compromise Texas Republican Party Resolution Telling the Republican Governor to Immediately End His Entire Coronavirus Crackdown
by Adam Dick | Sep 22, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Republican Party of Texas executive committee has taken a heroic action that could serve as an example for Republican and Democratic parties across America. It has adopted, by a 54 to 4 vote, a resolution clearly and emphatically demanding that Texas Governor Greg...
Ron Paul Joins with other Eminent Political Figures to Call for the Immediate Release of Julian Assange
by Adam Dick | Sep 21, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul has joined with other eminent political figures from around the world in endorsing a letter from Lawyers for Assange to several government officials of Great Britain. The letter makes the case for the immediate release of Julian Assange of WikiLeaks and the...
Crazy and Contemptible College Coronavirus Rules: Online-Only Student Who Is Never on Campus Suspended for Attending a Party
by Adam Dick | Sep 20, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
So you want to avoid the mask mandates, long lists of grim rules, administrators demanding strict adherence to these rules, and prison-like conditions that have become the norm at many university campuses in the name of countering coronavirus? You may choose to be an...
Delay of MORE Act Vote Could Mean Sooner National Marijuana Legalization
by Adam Dick | Sep 18, 2020 | Congress Alert
Earlier this month, I wrote about a bill including marijuana legalization that United States House of Representatives Democratic leadership had planned to bring to the House floor for a vote this month. The bill — the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement...
Should Government Destroy the Economy and Trample Liberty in the Name of Countering Coronavirus? Hold On, Let Me Grab My Calculator.
by Adam Dick | Sep 17, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Cato Institute came out Tuesday with its Pandemics and Policy collection of coronavirus-and-pandemics-related articles described as purposed to “provide policymakers with an actionable guide to policies that can harness [old‐fashioned American ingenuity] and...
CDC Director: No ‘Regular Life’ Until At Least the Middle of Next Year
by Adam Dick | Sep 16, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Remember President Donald Trump saying he wanted things to open up in America by Easter? Oh well. Throughout most of America, the coronavirus crackdowns are continuing strong five months after Easter. And United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
In South Dakota, the State Fair Must Go On
by Adam Dick | Sep 13, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many state fairs across America were canceled this year. The reason offered: coronavirus. It should be no surprise that among the states where an annual state fair did occur this year is South Dakota. South Dakota is the state whose governor — Kristi Noem — has...
Coronavirus Policy Has Been Hurting, Not Helping, Older and Less Healthy People
by Adam Dick | Sep 10, 2020 | Featured Articles
At first, coronavirus was sold as a very dangerous disease for everyone. Some people still believe that line, but the facts were clear months ago that for healthy, younger individuals the risk of severe illness or death from coronavirus is very low. And the risk...
MORE Act Sole Republican Cosponsor Says the Bill Is Not the Way to Legalize Marijuana Now
by Adam Dick | Sep 5, 2020 | Congress Alert
The United States House of Representatives appears set to have a floor vote this month on the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act (HR 3884). The bill would legalize marijuana at the national level, but, as I pointed out in a July article, the...
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