A Thursday Free Beacon article by Joe Schoffstall purports to expose Darius Khalil Gordon, a newly hired Bernie Sanders presidential campaign employee, as having “a history of racial slurs and denigrating remarks directed at gays, Jews, and women.” Some Twitter posts...
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Jonathan Turley Versus the Impeachment Steamroller
by Adam Dick | Dec 5, 2019 | Featured Articles
Following up on his previous call for caution in the effort in the United States House of Representatives to impeach President Donald Trump, George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley on Wednesday presented to the House Judiciary Committee oral...
Fuddy-Duddies Strike Again, Maryland College Cancels The Foreigner Performance
by Adam Dick | Dec 4, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a March episode of Five Minutes Five Issues, I talked about some fuddy-duddies’ complaints about actors wearing Ku Klux Klan costumes in a South Dakota high school performance of The Foreigner. The complaints led to an apology from the school’s school district for...
Oregon Supreme Court Limits Police Actions at Traffic Stops
by Adam Dick | Nov 30, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When police stop vehicles for purported driving rules infractions, police will often take advantage of the situation to inquire about other matters in a “fishing expedition” to establish suspicion of unrelated lawbreaking. They also may ask drivers for permission to...
State DMVs Making Millions Off Selling Personal Information Drivers are Required to Provide
by Adam Dick | Nov 27, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
State Departments of Motor Vehicles are notorious for slow or bad service. They are also becoming more well known for aiding in the invasion of individuals’ privacy.At the same time the United States and state governments have been dumping driver license photos into...
Rep. Thomas Massie is Preparing to be Taken as a Christmas Hostage
by Adam Dick | Nov 21, 2019 | Congress Alert
Speaking Wednesday evening with host Kennedy at Fox Business, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) predicted that the shenanigans this week to pass a continuing resolution providing short-term funding for the United States government and extra big-government goodies including...
Bipartisanship: Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Thanks Chairman for Slipping Mass Surveillance Provision into Continuing Resolution
by Adam Dick | Nov 20, 2019 | Congress Alert
People say there is too little bipartisanship in Washington, DC. But, when it comes to protecting the United States government’s mass surveillance program, there is plenty of bipartisan action by Democratic and Republican leaders. This was on display Wednesday morning...
House Judiciary Committee Planning to Pass Dead-End Marijuana Legalization Bill
by Adam Dick | Nov 19, 2019 | Congress Alert
New Pew Research Center poll results indicate Americans’ support for marijuana legalization continues to grow, with support reaching two-thirds among those questioned and maintaining majorities among Democrats, Republicans, and independents. This state of popular...
Pinning an ‘Antisemite’ Label on President Trump
by Adam Dick | Oct 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
In a Friday The Intercept editorial, Mehdi Hasan wrote that President Donald Trump “and his acolytes” have been “banging their anti-Semitic drum in plain sight” since United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s September 24 announcement of an...
Tulsi Gabbard’s Military Nonsense
by Adam Dick | Aug 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), in a Thursday interview with host Chris Cuomo at CNN, reacted to criticism from fellow Democratic presidential candidate Sen Kamala Harris (D-CA), after the candidates’ dust-up in a debate the day before, by stating, "the only response that...
47 House Members Vote for a Refreshingly Honest Bill Name Change
by Adam Dick | Jul 26, 2019 | Congress Alert
It is a good rule of thumb that bill names in the United States Congress are misleading. A prominent example of that is the USA PATRIOT Act that, instead of supporting the freedom for which American patriots have fought, provides to the US government extensive means...
House Democrats Preparing to Pass Marijuana Legalization with Very Little Republican Support
by Adam Dick | Jul 25, 2019 | Congress Alert
During a United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing earlier this month that appeared to signal the beginning of a move in the House to approve countrywide marijuana legalization legislation, Republican House member, and longtime...
House Hearing Provides Rocky Start for Countrywide Marijuana Legalization
by Adam Dick | Jul 12, 2019 | Congress Alert
A United States House of Representatives subcommittee held a hearing on Wednesday at which countrywide marijuana legalization was considered. The hearing of the Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee appears designed to...
Rep. Thomas Massie Targeted for Defeat
by Adam Dick | Jul 4, 2019 | Congress Alert, The Liberty Report
Phillip M. Baily reported Wednesday at the Louisville Courier Journal on a apparent effort by national Republican Party figures to defeat United States House of Representatives Member Thomas Massie (R-KY) in the 2020 Republican primary.Why the effort to defeat Massie?...
Rep. Thomas Massie Prevents House Skeleton Crew from Passing Legislation during Recess
by Adam Dick | May 28, 2019 | Congress Alert
You may think that the United States House of Representatives only passes legislation while in session when members have an opportunity to vote. Not so. On Tuesday, a small group of representatives on the House floor, while most representatives were far afield on...
Total Deception: US House Votes to ‘Enhance Stabilization of Conflict-Affected Areas and Prevent Violence and Fragility Globally’
by Adam Dick | May 24, 2019 | Congress Alert
The United States government, through arms including the US Department of State and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has long been promoting violence and destruction in previously relatively peaceful and prosperous places around the world. It has...
Revisiting Ron Paul’s 1988 Case for Drug Legalization
by Adam Dick | May 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul Institute (RPI) Senior Fellow Adam Dick’s prepared comments for RPI’s May 18, 2019 Houston, Texas conference “Winning the War on the War on Drugs”: Ron Paul helped many people discover libertarian ideas in his presidential campaigns. For me, during Dr. Paul’s...
Rep. Thomas Massie Says Follow the Constitution — No Troops to Venezuela Without a Congressional Vote
by Adam Dick | May 11, 2019 | Congress Alert
Interviewed Thursday at Fox Business by host Kennedy, United States House of Representatives Member Thomas Massie (R-KY) strongly objected to the prospect of President Donald Trump sending the US military to Venezuela to help overthrow that country’s government...
Michael Scheuer: US Intervention in Venezuela is for the Benefit of Powerful Special Interests
by Adam Dick | May 3, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Since he left the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) where he had been in charge the “bin Laden unit,” Michael Scheuer has made it his mission to educate people about the dangers of United States intervention abroad. Interviewed this week by host Rick Sanchez at RT...
Why Bernie Sanders Can Defeat Donald Trump in 2020
by Adam Dick | Apr 19, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With his veto this week of legislation intended to end United States military support for the war on Yemen, President Donald Trump may have ensured his defeat to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the 2020 presidential election. That is an argument political commentator...
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