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...
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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...
Right and Wrong Ways for a Politician to Have a Haircut in Violation of Coronavirus Mandates
by Adam Dick | Sep 4, 2020 | Featured Articles
This week, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, has been the subject of much attention because of her on the sly visit at a salon in her hometown of San Francisco despite such being forbidden under the local coronavirus...
College Students Across America Are Being Subjected To a Horrid Psychological Experiment
by Adam Dick | Aug 30, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
College, long a fun and liberating experience for many young adults, has become a dreary and oppressive experience for many students living under the weight of a multitude of restrictions imposed at American college campuses in the name of countering coronavirus....
Ron Paul’s New In-depth Interview Regarding His Longtime Work Communicating Libertarian Ideas
by Adam Dick | Aug 28, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In interviews, Ron Paul tends mainly to be asked about events of the day. These often-short interviews help Paul advance his goal of communicating the ideas of liberty. It is interesting and illuminating in a different way when Paul on occasion takes part in longer,...
Watch Out Hoodlums. Victims May Start Fighting Back Much More.
by Adam Dick | Aug 26, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There are hoodlums across America looting and burning down businesses, banging on people’s vehicles while ordering drivers rudely where to drive, bearing down on people to intimidate them into expressing support for this or that cause, and committing other crimes of...
Military Recruiters Are More Dangerous than Coronavirus for High School Students
by Adam Dick | Aug 18, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many parents have been fearful that their children may be harmed or killed by coronavirus if in-person attendance at high school resumes. This fear, however, has little basis in reality. Among teenagers overall, the risk of death from coronavirus is virtually zero,...
‘Regime Change’ in Belarus Looks Like an Objective of Both the Trump Administration and the Biden Campaign
by Adam Dick | Aug 14, 2020 | Featured Articles
It seems that whoever wins the presidency, United States foreign policy will keep chugging away at intervening across the world, including via “regime change” efforts. Over the last couple decades, targets for US-government-supported overthrow have included...
Grim College Coronavirus Rules
by Adam Dick | Aug 11, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
College ain’t what it used to be. Supposedly because of a virus that for most college students is less of a threat to their lives than riding in a car, students at college campuses this fall will be subjected to dystopian controls from required mask wearing and...
Reason Report: Jo Jorgensen Supports Mask Mandates for Government Buildings
by Adam Dick | Aug 7, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a Friday Reason article by Zuri Davis, Davis discusses a conversation she had the day before with Libertarian Party presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen. It was interesting to see Davis recount in the article that Jorgensen expressed approval of mask mandates for...
America’s Big Move on the Bloomberg Misery Index
by Adam Dick | Aug 7, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
America is moving up the ranks of the Bloomberg Misery Index, an index in which being number one means being the worst. Last year, America came in 50th. This year, America jumped to 25th among 60 economies compared based on their estimated price growth and...
Freedom Rolls On in South Dakota
by Adam Dick | Aug 7, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Across much of America, people are masked by mandate and large events are shut down by decree. But, in South Dakota, things are different. You can be mask-free in the state that has avoided most of the coronavirus crackdown imposed in much of the rest of America. And,...
Border Checkpoints Further New York City’s Descent into Tyranny and Economic Hardship
by Adam Dick | Aug 5, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
People in New York City have been subjected to one of the most repressive coronavirus crackdowns in America. Included have been months-long forced closure of many businesses and extreme limitations placed on businesses that have been allowed to resume some operations...
Ron Paul Presents Coronavirus Policy Common Sense in Fox Business Interview
by Adam Dick | Aug 3, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Coronavirus policy at the national, state, and local levels has been largely characterized by the abandonment of common sense as governments have imposed a new array of draconian measures on the people in response to an infectious disease that is not a particularly...
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