Donald Rainwater ran this year an unusually popular governor campaign for a Libertarian Party candidate. As I wrote in early October, the popularity of Rainwater’s campaign appeared to arise largely because of his standing out as the candidate in the race for Indiana...
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Voters Across America Approve Drug War Rollback Ballot Measures
by Adam Dick | Nov 4, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Tuesday general election brought approval of several statewide ballot measures rolling back the war on drugs.In September, I wrote about ballot measures up for consideration in the election that would liberalize drug laws in Washington, DC and the states of...
Scott Atlas Offers a Very Washington, DC Apology
by Adam Dick | Nov 2, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Scott Atlas, a coronavirus policy advisor for President Donald Trump, was recently interviewed about coronavirus policy by Afshin Rattansi at the RT show Going Underground. That should be no surprise. Talking with someone at RT is one among various avenues Atlas has...
Mask-hating Republicans Make for a Better Road Trip
by Adam Dick | Oct 30, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Traveling around Texas, I have found that areas where election votes go strongly in favor of Republican candidates tend, during the coronavirus crackdown, to be the best for stopping for gas, food, or other shopping, or just to use a restroom. In these areas it seems...
Newly Increased Coronavirus Crackdowns in Europe, a Preview of What Joe Biden Wants for All of America
by Adam Dick | Oct 28, 2020 | Featured Articles
Biden campaign rally, 27 OctoberAcross Europe, supposedly in reaction to rises in the numbers of coronavirus cases, many national governments are imposing increased crackdowns that severely restrict the exercise of liberty. These coronavirus cases are in large part...
Lew Rockwell Praises Ron Paul’s New Book and Work for Liberty and Peace
by Adam Dick | Oct 23, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a new essay titled “Wisdom from a Master,” Lew Rockwell details and praises Ron Paul’s many years of work advancing liberty and peace (some of which Rockwell observed as Paul’s chief of staff at the United States House of Representatives). Rockwell, in the essay,...
Rep. Thomas Massie: Hey Democrats, if you Want Legal Marijuana, Drop the ‘Politicized’ MORE Act, and Have a Vote on a ‘Straight Up Clean’ Bill
by Adam Dick | Oct 22, 2020 | Congress Alert
Two years back, when Republicans held the majority in the United States House of Representatives, Rep. Thomas Massie was criticizing the failure of the House Republican leadership to allow a vote of the House membership on ending the US government’s marijuana...
Twitter Cracks Down on President Trump’s Coronavirus Advisor Scott Atlas for Opposing Masks
by Adam Dick | Oct 18, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“Masks work? NO” began a Saturday Twitter post by Scott W. Atlas, a top coronavirus advisor for President Donald Trump. In the remainder of the tweet, Atlas proceeded to briefly relate support for this conclusion and for the proposition that masks being promoted as a...
Ron Paul, Featured Speaker at November Event
by Adam Dick | Oct 16, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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...
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...
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