Over the weekend, delegates at the Texas Republican Party’s statewide convention voted by wide margins in favor of several roll-backs of marijuana prohibition. With over 80 percent support, the delegates approved three state party platform planks calling,...
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Five Minutes Five Issues: Yemen, Farm Bill Hemp, Trump/Kim Meeting, Medical Marijuana, Dividing California
by Adam Dick | Jun 17, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is available. 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...
Rep. Ro Khanna Says Fellow Democrats Should Support Diplomacy with North Korea
by Adam Dick | Jun 13, 2018 | Congress Alert
On Monday, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), joined by 14 fellow Democratic United States House of Representatives members, sent a letter to President Donald Trump supporting Trump pursuing diplomacy and “incremental progress” with North Korea. The letter also expresses concern...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Bilderberg, Marijuana Prosecutions, Sports Politics, Marijuana Morality, RPI Conference
by Adam Dick | Jun 10, 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...
Law Prof. Jonathan Turley Tells Senators Proposed AUMF Would ‘Put Our Endless War on Autopilot’
by Adam Dick | Jun 6, 2018 | Congress Alert
George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, at a Wednesday hearing of Sen. Rand Paul's Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management, presented written testimony arguing that...
Ron Paul Rewind: The Right Not To Bake the Cake
by Adam Dick | Jun 4, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court, in the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, decided in favor of a bakery that the Colorado state government sought to require to design and create a custom wedding cake to celebrate a same-sex...
Five Minutes Five Issues: RFK Assassination, Trump Pardons, Michigan Marijuana, FBI Spending, Hemp Subsidies
by Adam Dick | Jun 3, 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,...
Ron Paul: Effort to Eliminate Cash is an ‘Attack on Individual Freedom’
by Adam Dick | Jun 1, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Premier libertarian communicator Ron Paul, in an interview Tuesday with host Dan Dicks at Press For Truth, called the effort to eliminate cash an “attack on individual freedom.” Restricting and discouraging the use of cash, suggests Paul, has always been a goal of...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Kim Meeting, Empire, Venezuela Threat, Campaign Spying, Utah Marijuana
by Adam Dick | May 27, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues is available. 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...
Why Ron Paul Thinks He Would Likely Be Impeached if He Were President
by Adam Dick | May 24, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
What would Ron Paul do if he were president? Alex Jones asked the former United States House of Representatives member and three-time presidential candidate this question in a Wednesday interview at the Alex Jones Show. Veto the spending bills, bring the US troops...
Decades of Unconstitutional Wars
by Adam Dick | May 23, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Despite United States Congress members insisting that Congress debate and vote on US military actions overseas, congressional leadership has chosen inaction, allowing military actions unilaterally pursued by the executive branch to continue unrestrained. And, when,...
Ron Paul Supports American Exceptionalism?!
by Adam Dick | May 17, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“American exceptionalism” is a phrase frequently rolled out in support of United States interventions abroad, including US military attacks. So it would likely surprise many people to hear that Ron Paul, the former US House of Representatives member and presidential...
Ron Paul Interview with Larry King: Foreign Policy, Mueller Investigation, and More
by Adam Dick | May 16, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul and interviewing legend Larry King had a provocative discussion last week on King’s Politicking show at RT. The prominent libertarian communicator, who founded the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity in 2013 after leaving the United States House of...
Voters in Several States Set to Roll Back Marijuana Prohibition This Year
by Adam Dick | May 15, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
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...
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...
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