Don’t be fooled, college students. While Students for Liberty describes itself as a “classical liberal” organization with libertarian members, it is not an organization that promotes nonintervention abroad. In December of 2021, I wrote about leaders of Students for...
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President Joe Biden’s Underwhelming Marijuana Reform Accomplishments
by Adam Dick | May 22, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In October of 2022, I wrote about the underwhelming nature of President Joe Biden’s pardons for some people convicted of marijuana offenses. What Biden proclaimed was a big rollback in the war on marijuana was really much less. The same goes for the new effort by the...
Ron Paul Rewind: 1988 Libertarian Presidential Nominee Ron Paul Interviewed at William F. Buckley Jr.’s Firing Line
by Adam Dick | May 21, 2024 | Featured Articles
This weekend, delegates at the Libertarian Party national convention will be selecting a presidential nominee. For the 1988 election, the party’s nominee was Ron Paul, who had previously served several terms in the United States House of Representatives as a...
Bring Back Constitutional Money
by Adam Dick | May 17, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The United States Constitution specifies that gold and silver are money. “No State shall … make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts,” declares the Constitution. Further, one of the enumerated powers the Constitution lists for the US...
The Libertarian Nonparty
by Adam Dick | May 15, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Check out the United States Libertarian Party’s website for its national convention later this month at which a major focus will be the choosing of the party’s presidential nominee. You see something very peculiar. Up top at the home page is a picture of a portion of...
The Republican US House Leadership Loves the Nanny State
by Adam Dick | May 14, 2024 | Congress Alert
Republicans have developed a reputation for ridiculing nanny state policies of the United States government that regulate an array of activities and products as if Americans are all infants or toddlers unable to look out for their own best interests. Nonetheless, the...
Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Turner Ashby Ride Again
by Adam Dick | May 10, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over the last few years there has been a movement to rid America of the sight of anything having to do with the former Confederate States of America (CSA), such as the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia and statues of CSA military leaders. The movement has...
No Part of the Constitution is Safe from the US Congress
by Adam Dick | May 7, 2024 | Congress Alert
Most members of the United Sates Congress repeatedly and, it seems, without a second thought vote for legislation that violates the restraints imposed by the US Constitution. It has been this way for many years. That situation has helped a government of limited,...
The New ‘Texas Antisemitism Lottery’ Should Pay Out Big in Lawsuit Awards and Settlements
by Adam Dick | Apr 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Texas Lottery has paid out many millions of dollars to winners of its games of chance since voters in the state approved its creation in 1991. This week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a new lottery of sorts — the “Texas Antisemitism Lottery” — that could...
That Time Scott Horton Proposed Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich Run Together on a Presidential Ticket
by Adam Dick | Apr 25, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Earlier this week, I wrote about a “what if” election scenario: What if Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, who had competed at the same time for, respectively, the Republican and Democratic presidential nomination, had instead run together on a presidential ticket? After...
The Kucinich/Paul Presidential Ticket that Never Was
by Adam Dick | Apr 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
In the United States House of Representatives, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was known for his progressive views, while Ron Paul (R-TX) was known for his libertarian views. There were many times when the two representatives disagreed about American policy and...
Good News: US Troops Are Set to Leave Niger
by Adam Dick | Apr 20, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The United States military has a tendency to park itself in a country and not budge even after its presence has proven catastrophic or the government of the country has demanded it leave. Well, here is some good news. Daphne Psaledakis at Reuters reported Friday that...
Speaker Mike Johnson: The Only Options are Ukrainian or American Troops at War with Russia
by Adam Dick | Apr 18, 2024 | Congress Alert
United States House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has turned out to be an uber warmonger. He put this attitude on display in a Wednesday press conference in which he declared “I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys” as support for...
See Texas in Your Kei Truck
by Adam Dick | Apr 16, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In the 1950s Dinah Shore sang her encouragement to “see the USA in your Chevrolet.” Decades later, some Americans would like to take that road trip in their kei trucks imported from Asia. But, for the time being, legal restrictions may cause them to limit that road...
A Glimmer of Hope for Julian Assange
by Adam Dick | Apr 10, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Julian Assange is very near the end of his appeal process in his effort to prevent his extradition from Great Britain to the United States, where he is set to be prosecuted for making public US government secrets — practicing journalism. On Wednesday, US President Joe...
Still Trying to End the Vietnam War Killings
by Adam Dick | Apr 10, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Vietnam War ended nearly 50 years ago. Still, the killing and maiming is not over. People continue to suffer from and succumb to injuries from the war long past. And others, often people born since the war’s end, are killed or injured by the explosion of some of...
Ron Paul Is Worried About the US Government, Not China or Russia
by Adam Dick | Apr 9, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
David Lin, in the Monday episode of the David Lin Report, asked libertarian communicator Ron Paul what nations Paul considers top adversaries or competitors internationally, suggesting that World War III could arise from conflict with one of them. In response, Paul...
In New Bird Flu Scare Comes Tacit Admission Coronavirus Was Not a Big Deal
by Adam Dick | Apr 5, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“Bird flu pandemic could be ‘100 times worse’ than COVID, scientists warn.” That is the headline at the New York Post for one of many media reports out Thursday spreading the latest pandemic scare. Note the “100 times worse” comparison. Why not “nearly as bad,” “as...
Dennis Kucinich Echoes George Washington in Discussing the Sad State of the US Congress
by Adam Dick | Apr 2, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The United States Congress is in a sad state. The American people recognize this, holding Congress in very low regard. Dennis Kucinich, who served in the House of Representatives from 1997 to 2013 as a Democratic representative from Ohio and is seeking to return to...
When a Gallon of Wine Is Not Enough
by Adam Dick | Mar 28, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Say you are planning a big event for which you’ll want to have on hand a bunch of wine. State legal restrictions may allow you to only buy relatively small bottles of wine from a local store. In Florida. the legal maximum amount of wine in wine bottles sold to the...
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