Proponents of red flag laws in states or countrywide often assert that the laws protect targeted individuals’ due process rights. However, examining the exercise of the Florida red flag law in Broward County, Jacob Sullum provided in a Reason article last week plenty...
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Ron Paul Gives Donald Trump’s Presidency a ‘C-Minus’ Grade
by Adam Dick | Feb 16, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
During a new Fox News interview, Watters’ World host Jesse Watters asked former United States House of Representatives member and presidential candidate Ron Paul to give President Donald Trump a grade based on Paul’s evaluation of Trump’s actions as president...
Ron Paul Sees ‘Politics as Usual’ Continuing Despite Partisan ‘Vitriol’ Among DC Politicians
by Adam Dick | Feb 15, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With recent presidential impeachment proceedings as well as the insults flying between Republicans and Democrats in Washington, DC, many people may jump to the conclusion that the politicians of the opposing parties cannot work together on major policy matters and...
Many People in NATO Countries Say ‘No’ to Supporting a NATO Ally in a Military Conflict with Russia
by Adam Dick | Feb 11, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
NATO is marketed as providing each member nation with the benefit that the other member nations are committed to coming to its aid militarily in the event of an attack by another nation, especially Russia. However, Pew Research Center poll results released Sunday...
How You Unlock Your Phone May Determine if Police Can Access It Without Your Consent
by Adam Dick | Feb 8, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
You may find it more convenient to unlock your phone by pressing your fingerprint on or staring at the phone screen instead of typing out a password. But, some courts have determined that having your phone set to be unlocked via your biometric information will also...
‘Racist’ Joe Biden
by Adam Dick | Jan 30, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Democratic primary presidential candidate Joe Biden, in the 1990s when he was a member of the United States Senate, said racist stuff in two speeches. That is an insinuation of a Monday The Intercept article by Aída Chávez. The basis for this insinuation? Biden in the...
Ominous REAL ID Moves Forward
by Adam Dick | Jan 28, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a new interview with host Scott Horton at the Scott Horton Show, politics writer James Bovard describes some of the latest ominous developments in the rollout of United States government-prescribed identification requirements arising from the 2005 REAL ID Act....
Ron Paul Gives Jimmy Dore a Libertarian Tutorial
by Adam Dick | Jan 25, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Want a brief presentation on some key libertarian ideas regarding matters including United States tariffs on China, the status of the US dollar as the reserve currency of the world, pollution, and laws concerning labor unions? You can find it in the new interview of...
Ron Paul: The Impeachment Trial of President Trump is ‘Pure Politicking’
by Adam Dick | Jan 23, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former United States Hose of Representatives member and presidential candidate Ron Paul is not too impressed with the ongoing impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the US Senate. The impeachment trial is “pure politicking,“ declares Paul in a new interview at...
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s New Militarism-Cheering Election Opponent
by Adam Dick | Jan 18, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Just like you should not judge a book by its cover, you should not judge a political candidate by his religion, sex, or place of birth. That is a lesson from Dalia al-Aqidi’s Thursday video announcing her campaign as a Republican in opposition to United States House...
Lawrence Wilkerson Lambasts ‘the Beast of the National Security State’
by Adam Dick | Jan 13, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Lawrence Wilkerson, a College of William & Mary professor who was chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powel in the George W. Bush administration, powerfully summed up the vile nature of the US national security state in a recent interview with host Amy...
That US House-Passed Resolution Supposedly Opposing War Against Iran
by Adam Dick | Jan 13, 2020 | Congress Alert
Last week there was much media coverage of the United Sates House of Representatives voting to approve a resolution (H. Con. Res. 83) commonly described as seeking to prevent the Trump administration from engaging in war against Iran. However, take a look at the...
Dennis Kucinich, Antiwar to His Core
by Adam Dick | Jan 10, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A Thursday article by Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone discusses Dennis Kucinich’s work in politics, from Kucinich’s eight terms in the United Sates House of Representatives to his two presidential campaigns to his activities since leaving political office. Taibbi, in the...
Ron Paul: US Wants to ‘Own Iran’ Like the US Did When the Shah Was in Power
by Adam Dick | Jan 10, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President Donald Trump is offering plenty of justifications for the US government’s recent military actions against Iran, including that the actions were taken to prevent the deaths of Americans and to prevent a war. Not so, says former US House of Representatives...
Congress Unlikely to Significantly Restrain US Intervention in the Middle East
by Adam Dick | Jan 8, 2020 | Congress Alert
Decade after decade, United States presidents order intervention, by the military and otherwise, across the Middle East. And, decade after decade, the US House of Representatives and Senate provide the funding for the intervention to continue, as well as pass bills...
Ron Paul: It is Best for Iraq to Tell the US to ‘Get Out’
by Adam Dick | Jan 5, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a Friday interview with host Rick Sanchez at RT regarding the United States government’s assassination of Iran General Qassim Suleimani at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, peace advocate and former presidential candidate Ron Paul declared that “the best...
Bill Weld: Ho-Hum, Donald Trump Ordered the Assassination of Qassim Suleimani
by Adam Dick | Jan 4, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In 2016, former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld received the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential nomination. This year, having returned to the Republican Party, Weld is challenging President Donald Trump for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. Many...
Dennis Kucinich Condemns Killing of Iran General and Calls for US Congress to Prevent a Larger War
by Adam Dick | Jan 3, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Dennis Kucinich, a long-time advocate for the United States government pursing a peaceful foreign policy who served in the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat from Ohio and twice sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination, issued a statement...
Shutter the US Embassy in Iraq
by Adam Dick | Jan 1, 2020 | Featured Articles
This week, amid protests by people upset with United States intervention in Iraq, individuals forced their way into and damaged the US embassy compound in Baghdad. In response, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper declared on Tuesday that 750 additional US troops would...
Keeping Green Party Candidates Off Ballots
by Adam Dick | Dec 23, 2019 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The United States Green Party issued a press release Thursday announcing it is seeking “to get ballot lines for all 50 states and DC and the U.S. territories in 2020.” This would be an improvement over the 2016 US general election. The press release states that the...
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