Judge Andrew Napolitano, in a new riveting two-minute video monologue, is asking important questions regarding the killings of the US ambassador to Libya, another diplomat, and CIA contractors in Benghazi, Libya in 2012. Napolitano is also asking about the connection...
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Former NSA Director Michael Hayden: It’s ‘Cool!’ That Congress Has Not Restrained Mass Surveillance
by Adam Dick | Jun 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Almost four months after ludicrously claiming to be an “unrelenting libertarian” while on stage with Ron Paul Institute Board Member Andrew Napolitano, Michael Hayden — whose rotation through high-level United States intelligence offices included several years as...
South Dakota Native American Tribe Legalizes Marijuana
by Adam Dick | Jun 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe became last week the first South Dakota American Indian tribe to approve marijuana legalization. The approval came via the tribe’s executive committee voting on Thursday to adopt a legalization ordinance. The tribe’s reservation is...
Small Victory: Decades-Old Database of Nevada Handgun Owners to be Destroyed
by Adam Dick | Jun 15, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In this age of mass surveillance, it is uncommon to hear of the destroying of a government’s surveillance database — even if in just one American county. Yet, that is what the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is preparing to do. As required by Senate Bill 175...
The Prosecution of Dennis Hastert and the Government’s War on Cash
by Adam Dick | Jun 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
Back on March 31, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced what many media reports heralded as a big rollback in the use of structuring allegations to justify seizing assets from individuals. Yet, here we are less than three months later with the DOJ prosecuting...
Judge Napolitano: Prosecute ‘Hothead’ McKinney Pool Party Cop
by Adam Dick | Jun 10, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The resignation on Tuesday of McKinney, Texas policeman Eric Casebolt after the widespread viewing of a video showing Casebolt drawing his gun and brutalizing a teenager outside a pool party may not be enough to bring justice, suggests Judge Andrew Napolitano....
Reps. McGovern, Jones, and Lee to Force House Vote This Month on ISIS War Withdrawal
by Adam Dick | Jun 5, 2015 | Congress Alert
The days of the United States House of Representatives leadership blocking debate and a vote on the ISIS War appear to be coming to an end. On Thursday, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), along with Reps Walter Jones (R-NC) and Barbara Lee (D-CA), introduced, pursuant to the...
Judge Napolitano: Why the NSA Loves the USA FREEDOM Act
by Adam Dick | Jun 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Why did the National Security Agency (NSA) dispatch hundreds of agents to the US Congress to lobby for the USA FREEDOM Act if the legislation would, as many of the bill’s advocates in the Congress assert, greatly restrain the US government’s mass surveillance program?...
Today in Congress: House to Pass Legislation Promoting National ID Cards Worldwide
by Adam Dick | Jun 1, 2015 | Congress Alert
The congressional push to promote national ID cards worldwide continues, and it looks like the legislative vehicle — the Girls Count Act (S 802) — will likely be sent this week to President Barack Obama to be signed into law without recorded votes in the US Senate or...
Speaker John Boehner’s Endless Excuses for Blocking an ISIS War Debate and Vote
by Adam Dick | May 31, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
US Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) is like the fellow you ask over for dinner time and again who always has a reason to decline the invitation. He says, in turn, that he has to work late, has to deal with a family emergency, needs to feed the neighbor’s cat,...
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Mass Surveillance Will Continue Even Without PATRIOT Act Section 215
by Adam Dick | May 28, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Privacy advocates looking forward to an end of the Unites States government’s mass surveillance program due to the looming sunset of PATRIOT Act section 215 may do well to shelve their Champagne bottles. Judge Andrew Napolitano, in a Fox News interview on Wednesday,...
The Conscientious Objector’s Path Away from War’s Killings
by Adam Dick | May 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When you sign up to be in the United States military, in many ways the deck is stacked against you. You are required to go where you are told and to do what you are told — including, potentially, to kill people. You can forget the rosy representations the recruiter...
Lew Rockwell: ‘If You’re Not Seeing the Ron Paul Liberty Report, You’re Not Understanding What’s Going On’
by Adam Dick | May 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Friday, in his Lew Rockwell Show interview with Ron Paul, host Lew Rockwell interjected effusive praise for Paul’s new show, the Ron Paul Liberty Report. The Ron Paul Liberty Report is a new video program hosted by Paul and Ron Paul Institute Executive Director...
Michael Scheuer: Why Bin Laden Was Reading My Book ‘Imperial Hubris’
by Adam Dick | May 22, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
From Sky News to CNN, media are asking Michael Scheuer why Osama bin Laden would have a copy of Scheuer’s book Imperial Hubris. The question arose because Scheuer’s book is included in a list of books seized in a 2011 US military raid on bin Laden’s dwelling in...
Rep. John Duncan: GOP as War Party is a ‘Recipe for Defeat’
by Adam Dick | May 19, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In an in-depth interview at C-SPAN’s Washington, DC studio on May 13, Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN) appealed for the Republican Party to change its ways so it can be viewed as the Peace Party instead of as the War Party. Duncan’s comments in the interview expand on...
Jacob Hornberger’s Outstanding Jury Nullification Overview
by Adam Dick | May 18, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Isn’t it absurd that a prosecutor and judge will tell a jury to find a defendant guilty even if jury members think what the defendant did — possessing or selling an illegal drug, for example — should be legal? Doesn’t such a restriction on jurors fly in the face of...
House Votes to Keep Paying for ISIS War It Neither Debated Nor Authorized
by Adam Dick | May 17, 2015 | Congress Alert
The US House of Representatives on Friday again voted to pay for war on the Islamic State (ISIS) without ever having a debate and vote on the authorization of the war. This result is par for the course given the House leadership is well practiced in manipulating House...
Sen. Bob Corker Thinks the NSA Is Collecting Too Little of Our Private Information!
by Adam Dick | May 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
United States Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) made news on Wednesday with his astounding comment that he is “shocked” by “how little data” the National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting via the US government’s mass surveillance program and with his advocacy that the program...
Rep. Walter Jones: Congress Should Debate Nine More Years in Afghanistan
by Adam Dick | May 14, 2015 | Congress Alert
Speaking Tuesday on the United States House of Representatives floor, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) again urged Congress to exercise its constitutional responsibility by debating and voting on if the United States government will continue militarily intervening in...
Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Two-Minute Case against Extending Expiring PATRIOT Act Provisions
by Adam Dick | May 8, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano presents this week at the Fox News website his concise, two-minute argument for the United States Congress allowing some of the most liberty-threatening PATRIOT Act provisions to expire at the end of this month. Napolitano, who packs much...
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