Polling suggests approval of state ballot measures in upcoming elections this year that would cause the number of states with legal medical marijuana to grow by three and with legal recreational marijuana to grow by one. Absent earlier legislative action in other...
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A Retirement Community for Drug-sniffing Dogs
by Adam Dick | May 10, 2018 | Featured Articles
Legalizing marijuana in Illinois would likely cause some drug-sniffing dogs in the state to be killed. That is the claim asserted by Chad Larner, the training director of the K-9 Training Academy in Macon County, Illinois in an in-depth Pantagraph article this week by...
Praise for Rep. Walter Jones after His Republican Primary Victory
by Adam Dick | May 10, 2018 | Congress Alert
On Tuesday, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), who is seeking reelection for what he has indicated will be his final term in the United States House of Representatives, won his Republican Party primary. Jones defeated two other candidates — a Washington, DC lobbyist who holds...
Huge Increase in NSA’s Phone Calls and Text Messages Collection after ‘Major Reform’ of Mass Surveillance Program
by Adam Dick | May 7, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Friday, the National Security Agency (NSA), which has played a primary role in the United States government’s mass surveillance program exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, disclosed it had collected 534 million phone calls and text messages of Americans in...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Utah Marijuana, Beto O’Rourke, Maine Marijuana, Repatriating Gold, Charleston Event
by Adam Dick | May 6, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Saturday. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud.Listen to the new episode here:Read a transcript of the new...
US Sanctions Hit International Chess Organization FIDE
by Adam Dick | May 2, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The bank account of FIDE, a premier chess organization that governs some major international chess competitions, maintains rules adhered to at many other tournaments, calculates players’ ratings, and awards titles such as Grandmaster, was shut down this week. Peter...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Trump Missiles, US Marijuana, Border Agent Assaults, Canada Drug Decrim, Kyle Kashuv
by Adam Dick | Apr 30, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted is out. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud.Listen to the new episode here:Read a transcript of the new...
David Stockman Enters Hostile Territory to Support Nonintervention and Oppose Increased Military Spending
by Adam Dick | Apr 25, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Investing and current affairs writer David Stockman found himself in hostile territory this week in an interview at the Fox Business show Mornings with Maria. In the often-tense interview, Stockman seems to shock and rile some of the show’s hosts with his assessments...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Friends and Adversaries, Partisan War, Texas Marijuana, Syria Attack, US Marijuana
by Adam Dick | Apr 23, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is out. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud. Listen to the new episode here: Read a transcript of the new episode,...
Lawrence Wilkerson: Cowardly Congress, Apathetic Americans Allow US Military Intervention
by Adam Dick | Apr 17, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Retired United States Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell in the George W. Bush administration, explains in a new interview the reason he believes the US president “can do anything he pleases with regard to the...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Hemp Bill, Militarized America, Marijuana Disinfo, Utah Marijuana, Pain Killers
by Adam Dick | Apr 14, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is out. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud.Listen to the new episode here:Read a transcript of the new episode,...
Trump Ordering Syria Attack Would Be an Unconstitutional, But Not Uncommon, Presidential Action
by Adam Dick | Apr 13, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Louis Fisher, a Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Academic Board member and United States Constitution scholar, is quoted, in a Thursday Washington Examiner article by Steven Nelson, declaring that a unilateral decision by President Donald Trump to use...
Ron Paul Makes the Case for Libertarian Optimism
by Adam Dick | Apr 11, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
American libertarians have plenty of reason to feel discouraged in this time of the United States government increasingly disrespecting liberty in America and pursuing intervention, including wars, overseas. While prominent libertarian communicator Ron Paul shares...
Ron Paul: ‘Total Nonsense’ to Claim Syria President Bashar al-Assad is Gassing His Own People
by Adam Dick | Apr 10, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“This whole idea that all of a sudden Assad’s gassing his own people, I think, is total nonsense,” declared Ron Paul in a new RT interview with host Ed Schultz. President Donald Trump has blamed Syria President Bashar al-Assad, along with Russia and Iran, for the...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Libertarian Moment, Trump Target, Census, the Free Society, Google
by Adam Dick | Apr 9, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is out. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud.Listen to the new episode here: Read a transcript of the new episode,...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Sen. Manning, Drug War, Bill Weld, Pain Killers, New Conference Speaker
by Adam Dick | Apr 2, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is out. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud.Listen to the new episode here:Read a transcript of the new episode,...
Privacy Denied: Students May Bring Only Clear Backpacks to School
by Adam Dick | Mar 31, 2018 | Featured Articles
KERA radio in Dallas, Texas aired a news report this week relating that the Ennis school district in North Texas, starting in the fall semester, will allow students at district schools from prekindergarten through high school to bring only “clear, PVC backpacks to...
Lawrence Wilkerson: John Bolton Is One of the Most Dangerous Americans I Have Ever Met
by Adam Dick | Mar 27, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Lawrence Wilkerson, a former United States Army colonel and chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, made clear, at the beginning of a new The Real News interview, his concern about President Donald Trump appointing John Bolton as the president’s national...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Deep State, Saudi Arabia, Russiagate, Facebook, Nonintervention Conference
by Adam Dick | Mar 25, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud.Listen to the new episode here:Read a transcript of the new episode,...
Attend a Great Nonintervention Conference and See Beautiful, Historically Rich Charleston Too!
by Adam Dick | Mar 21, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Have you secured your ticket to the April 29 “Non-Intervention: America’s Original Foreign Policy” conference in Charleston, South Carolina? You can watch a new video conversation of two of the people who will speak at the event — Jacob G. Hornberger, who is president...
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