Pema Levy, in a Monday Mother Jones article, wrote that Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), who President-elect Donald Trump has picked to be director of the Office of Management and Budget, spoke in July at a dinner held by a chapter of the John Birch Society in Mulvaney’s...
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Philippines President Duterte Using China Leverage to Strike Better Aid Deal with Donald Trump?
by Adam Dick | Dec 18, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
United States foreign aid dollars, and even police training, have been supporting for several months large-scale systematic street executions of supposed drug dealers and users in the Philippines. Now, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who has promoted the...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Police Militarization, Canada Marijuana, CIA Chorus, Vermont Pardons, Year End
by Adam Dick | Dec 17, 2016 | 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,...
Donald Trump Meets with Judge Andrew Napolitano Regarding Supreme Court Nomination
by Adam Dick | Dec 15, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, who serves on the Ron Paul Institute Advisory Board in addition to being the senior judicial analyst at Fox News, met for an hour Thursday with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York City. Napolitano related in an interview...
Don’t Just Legalize Marijuana, End the Entire Drug War
by Adam Dick | Dec 12, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Voters approving marijuana legalization in four more states on November 8 took another bite out of the drug war in America. Still, in regard to other drugs, the drug war rages on. Also, many state and local governments, as well as the United States government,...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Leon Orr, One-Party Control, NY Marijuana, California Marijuana, Okinawa
by Adam Dick | Dec 10, 2016 | 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...
Rep. Thomas Massie: Judge President Trump on Adherence to Nonaggression Principle
by Adam Dick | Dec 9, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking this week with host Kennedy at Fox Business, US House Member Thomas Massie (R-KY) insisted that Donald Trump’s performance as president should be judged according to whether Trump adheres to the nonaggression principle that Massie describes as “the heart of...
Judge Napolitano on Sanctuary Cities’ Challenge to US Government Power
by Adam Dick | Dec 8, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a Thursday video commentary at the Fox News website, Judge Andrew Napolitano discusses the relationship between local government powers and United States government powers that will be on display should Donald Trump, as president, seek to deport large numbers of...
The ‘Draft Women’ Legislation Roller Coaster Ride
by Adam Dick | Dec 4, 2016 | Congress Alert
During consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in the spring, the proposal that women be required to sign up with Selective Service just as are men started on a roller coaster ride in the United States Congress. That ride had a couple more turns...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Philippines Killings, DC Swamp, Drug Pleas, Détente Reversals, War Power
by Adam Dick | Dec 2, 2016 | 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 Advises How Young People Can Advance Liberty
by Adam Dick | Nov 29, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Libertarian communicator Ron Paul has some advice for young people. “What the young people have to do is to know and understand and study and feel comfortable with the alternative to what we have, and that is understanding what a free society is all about, what the...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Refugee Creation, WaPo Deception, Gun Form, Phone Control, Fidel Castro
by Adam Dick | Nov 27, 2016 | 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,...
Washington Post Peddles Tarring of Ron Paul Institute as Russian Propaganda
by Adam Dick | Nov 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Washington Post has a history of misrepresenting Ron Paul’s views. Last year the supposed newspaper of record ran a feature article by David A. Fahrenthold in which Fahrenthold grossly mischaracterized Paul as an advocate for calamity, oppression, and poverty —...
Ron Paul: The War on Drugs is a War on Liberty, Choice, and Responsibility
by Adam Dick | Nov 24, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Ron Paul lays out the case for legalizing all drugs and ending the war on drugs in a new interview released Tuesday. The chairman of the Ron Paul Institute and former Republican House of Representatives member from Texas tells interviewer Jacob Hornberger of the...
Ron Paul Questions Whether Donald Trump Will Withstand Pressure in Favor of Foreign Intervention
by Adam Dick | Nov 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Prominent libertarian communicator and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul is questioning whether Donald Trump will be able to withstand the enormous pressure placed on US presidents to intervene overseas, including with military force. Alex Pfeiffer, drawing...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Neocon Appointments, TPP, Russia Sanctions, Texas Marijuana, Presidential Powers
by Adam Dick | Nov 17, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Wednesday. 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...
Ron Paul: The Two-Party System is ‘Horrible’
by Adam Dick | Nov 14, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While Ron Paul has run for president twice, as well as served in the United States House of Representatives, as a Republican, he is far from a lockstep follower of that party or even a devotee of the “two-party system.” Indeed, Paul is quoted in a Sunday Victoria...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Popular Vote, Arms Sales, Marijuana Progress, Ranked Voting, NATO Pushback
by Adam Dick | Nov 13, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Welcome to a new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues. 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...
Ron Paul to Trump: Don’t Listen to Neocons!
by Adam Dick | Nov 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul, known for his promotion of the United States following a noninterventionist foreign policy, presented Thursday his take on the prospects of Donald Trump’s foreign policy as president. Paul set out his analysis in an extensive interview with host Peter...
Will Paul Ryan Be Booted from the House Speakership after the Election?
by Adam Dick | Nov 8, 2016 | Congress Alert
On October, 29, 2015, just over one year ago, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) became speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) had announced about a month earlier his resignation from the House after House members had become increasingly...
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