Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey seems to have quickly reversed course to admit the obvious — that the February 16 magistrate judge’s order for Apple to help the US government breach an iPhone’s security, including encryption, is as much...
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Bernie Sanders’ Presidential Campaign Reaches Out to RPI Advisor on Foreign Policy
by Adam Dick | Feb 25, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
College of William & Mary Professor Lawrence Wilkerson, a member of the Ron Paul Institute’s Academic Board since the institute’s 2013 founding, has provided some advice to the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, according to an article by Michael Crowley in...
Did the FBI Intentionally Bumble the San Bernardino iPhone Investigation?
by Adam Dick | Feb 23, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over at We Meant Well, always-interesting writer Peter Van Buren provides a funny rundown of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s blunders he suggests prevented it from accessing information on an iPhone connected to the December 2 San Bernardino, California...
The Apple Court Order and the Obama Administration’s Anti-Privacy Push
by Adam Dick | Feb 21, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In the fall of 2015, American privacy supporters were relieved that draconian legislation requiring companies to create backdoors for the US government to overcome encryption of individuals’ private information did not make its way through Congress. In fact, the Obama...
Ron Paul Explains Libertarianism
by Adam Dick | Feb 18, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Prominent libertarian communicator and former United States presidential candidate Ron Paul presented on Wednesday a short explanation of libertarianism in response to a question from host Anand Naidoo on the CCTV show The Heat. Asked by Naidoo “What is a...
Judge Napolitano Applauds Apple’s Tim Cook for Defending the Constitution
by Adam Dick | Feb 17, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, in a new Fox Business interview with host Stuart Varney, said he applauds Apple CEO Tim Cook for “defending the Constitution” by resisting a United States magistrate judge’s order that Apple aid the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in...
Ron Paul Rewind: All US Supreme Court Justices are Good and Bad
by Adam Dick | Feb 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
With the death last week of United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, there is much discussion of whether Scalia was good or bad on the court and whether President Barack Obama and the next president will nominate good or bad people for the court. If you...
Has Turkey Just Started WWIII?
by Adam Dick | Feb 15, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The violence in Syria has been devastating for years. New military actions in the country by the Turkish government threaten to escalate the situation into a much larger war. Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Executive Director Daniel McAdams wrote about the...
Hillary Clinton Top Aides May Testify Against Her in Clinton Emails Case
by Adam Dick | Feb 12, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano said in a Thursday Fox News interview that the United States Department of Justice will likely seek to make deals with individuals who were top aides to Hillary Clinton so those aides will testify against her if there...
Not-So-Convincing Anti-Second Amendment Arguments
by Adam Dick | Feb 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
Ken Womble has written convincingly regarding legal matters, including the desirability of prosecuting cops who lie about other cops’ killings. However, Womble, in a Monday Mimesis Law article, provides several not-so-convincing arguments for repealing the Second...
Ron Paul ‘The Maverick’ at University of Texas, Arlington
by Adam Dick | Feb 6, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, the prominent libertarian communicator, has said many times that the great interest in the ideas of liberty he finds among young people on university campuses gives him reason for optimism. In fact, Paul has made it a priority to speak at universities often,...
Ron Paul Says Entering Presidential Race as Libertarian Party Candidate ‘Not in the Cards’
by Adam Dick | Feb 5, 2016 | Featured Articles
In a new Fox Business interview, host Kennedy asks Ron Paul the question many people have considered the last couple days: With Paul’s son Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) having dropped out of the presidential race this week, how about the senior Paul jump into the 2016...
Judge Napolitano: Clinton Espionage Evidence is Overwhelming. Will Obama Block Prosecution?
by Adam Dick | Feb 4, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a new video report at Fox News, former New Jersey Judge Andrew Napolitano predicts that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will “very soon” recommend the prosecution of Hillary Clinton for espionage based on her alleged reckless handling of US government...
Afghanistan Boondoggles Get Rep. Walter Jones’ Goat
by Adam Dick | Feb 3, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), speaking Tuesday at a hearing of the US House Armed Services Committee, returned to a subject he has addressed many times — the US government’s incredible waste of money and lives in Afghanistan. Providing one example to illustrate the...
Making the Super Bowl Super Authoritarian
by Adam Dick | Feb 2, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Downtown San Francsco 11 Days Before Super Bowl - photo: Target LibertyAfter months of preparation, national, state, and local police have rolled out a comprehensive mass surveillance effort in the San Francisco Bay Area as the Super Bowl approaches. If you happen to...
Minnesota GOP Rules Change after Ron Paul Delegates Win May Give Donald Trump the Win
by Adam Dick | Jan 31, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Republican National Committee (RNC) was not happy that Ron Paul, who had won second place in Minnesota’s February of 2012 caucuses, ended up with over three-quarters of the state’s delegates to the Republican National Convention. The RNC was not happy with Paul’s...
Ron Paul: Congress is AWOL on US Wars
by Adam Dick | Jan 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
Interviewed Thursday on the Alex Jones Show, Ron Paul lamented that, despite the Founders having “worked so hard to allow [war] powers to be put into the hands of the body that is supposed to be closest to the people,” the Congress today “is absent, AWOL,” because...
A New Large-Scale US Military Attack in Libya
by Adam Dick | Jan 27, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In 2011 President Barack Obama directed, without any congressional authorization, a US military attack on Libya that was marketed as “humanitarian intervention.” As RPI Director Daniel McAdams observed in August of 2014, the result of military action by the US and...
Ron Paul’s Upcoming Speeches in Texas
by Adam Dick | Jan 26, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul will deliver two speeches in Texas this week and next. First, the former presidential candidate and member of the US House of Representatives will be speaking close to home in Houston, Texas on January 30. Three days later, on February 2, Paul will be in...
Here Come the Free Staters!
by Adam Dick | Jan 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
It looks like thousands — maybe tens of thousands — of libertarians will be moving to New Hampshire in the next few years. Via a vote in 2003, the Free State Project selected New Hampshire from among several low-population states as the state to target for a migration...
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