Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), in an interview Tuesday with the Daily Hampshire Gazette, revealed his plan to introduce, along with Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), a privileged resolution in the US House of Representatives that will require a prompt vote regarding the war on the...
Adam Dick
After HIV Spike, Drug Warrior Governor Grants Limited Temporary Needle Exchange
by Adam Dick | Mar 30, 2015 | Featured Articles
Indiana Governor Mike Pence on Thursday issued an executive order (EO 15-05) declaring a “public health disaster emergency” in Scott County in southeastern Indiana due to an epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the county. The extraordinary measures...
Norman Singleton Discusses the Terrible Way the PATRIOT Act Became Law
by Adam Dick | Mar 26, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Norman Singleton, who worked for years as the legislative director for former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), provided a very revealing account on Tuesday of the terrible way the PATRIOT Act was moved quickly to passage by a huge majority of votes in the US House of...
Ron Paul Rewind: 2007 Presidential Exploratory Committee Announcement
by Adam Dick | Mar 24, 2015 | Featured Articles
The media are abuzz with chatter about the “early announcement” by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of his candidacy for United States president. Back on March 12, 2007, Ron Paul, then a Republican US House Member from Texas, announced his entry into the 2008 presidential race in...
Ron Paul Rewind: Iran Sanctions Are ‘One More Step to Another War We Don’t Need’
by Adam Dick | Mar 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
A week after a joint session of the United States Congress gave repeated standing ovations to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he scaremongered Americans regarding Iran and as legislation to impose yet more sanctions on Iran is being pushed in the Congress,...
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: US Seeking to Humiliate and Defeat Russia Will Mean More Ukraine Suffering
by Adam Dick | Mar 6, 2015 | Congress Alert
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) provided some refreshing counterweight to the war promoting statements of the United States House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee chairman and ranking member at the committee’s Ukraine hearing on Wednesday with sole witness...
Hillary Mann Leverett on Netanyahu’s Nearly 20 Years of Scaremongering Americans
by Adam Dick | Mar 5, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Tuesday speech to the United States Congress is a continuation of his nearly 20 years of scaremongering the US government to encourage both US intervention in the Middle East and US military aid for Israel says Ron Paul...
Texas Legislator Introduces Bill to Treat Marijuana ‘Like Tomatoes, Jalapeños, or Coffee’
by Adam Dick | Mar 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Texas State Rep. David Simpson (R-Longview) introduced a bill, HB 2165, on Monday that he says is intended to remove marijuana offenses entirely from Texas state law and replace them with nothing. Simpson, in a KETK-TV story, is quoted explaining that he is proposing...
On Marijuana, Young Republicans Say ‘Legalize it’ but Congressional Republicans Say ‘No’
by Adam Dick | Mar 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
According to Pew Research Center poll results released Friday, 63 percent of Millennial Generation Republicans support marijuana legalization. On this issue these Republicans born between 1981 and 1996 have more in common with Democrats than with Republicans...
Judge Napolitano: NSA Is Doing What American Colonists Fought Britain to End
by Adam Dick | Feb 28, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano provides a brief and excellent introduction to the US government’s mass spying program in a new video monologue this week at Fox News. In less than a minute and a half, Napolitano explains that the mass spying program of the National Security...
Former NSA and CIA Boss Michael Hayden Calls Himself an ‘Unrelenting Libertarian’
by Adam Dick | Feb 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Michael Hayden, who served in turn as director of the National Security Agency (NSA), principal deputy director of National Intelligence, and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1999 through 2009, elicited laughs and a loud jeer of “No you’re not!”...
Sen. Cory Booker: Use War on Drugs Resources to Expand War on Guns
by Adam Dick | Feb 26, 2015 | Congress Alert
Be cautious, advocates for liberty who are cheering the apparent winding down of the United States government’s war on marijuana and that war’s replacement with a patchwork quilt of revised state and local laws more tolerant of marijuana growth, distribution, and use....
The Washington Post’s Gross Mischaracterization of Ron Paul’s Message
by Adam Dick | Feb 23, 2015 | Featured Articles
Irrespective of the commonly held view that the Washington Post is the newspaper of record of America or at least of United States politics, David A. Fahrenthold’s January 25 Washington Post article purporting to report on Ron Paul’s participation the previous day at...
Will Reading of George Washington’s Farewell Address Influence Senate Warmongers?
by Adam Dick | Feb 22, 2015 | Congress Alert
Per longstanding United States Senate tradition, on Monday afternoon a senator — this year Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) — will read President George Washington’s farewell address on the Senate floor. The Senate website declares that no Senate tradition “has been more...
Rep. Walter Jones Challenges McConnell and Boehner on Giving Obama Fast Track Authority
by Adam Dick | Feb 18, 2015 | Congress Alert
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), while a guest last week on the Laura Ingraham Show, criticized United States Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) for supporting giving President Barack Obama “fast track”...
Upcoming: Ron Paul’s New Book on War
by Adam Dick | Feb 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul revealed Thursday that he is preparing for publication a new book he has written about war. Paul made the revelation at the conclusion of a wide-ranging foreign policy interview on the Scott Horton Show. The former United States House of Representative member...
Andrew Napolitano: IRS Commissioner Apologizing for Seizing Bank Accounts Is Not Enough
by Adam Dick | Feb 16, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, speaking with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business, explained that United States Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen‘s apology last week regarding the US government routinely seizing bank accounts based on the mere suspicion that the...
Don’t Trust Obama’s Rhetoric – His War Authorization Allows Fighting by US Ground Troops
by Adam Dick | Feb 14, 2015 | Congress Alert
The proposed Authorization for Use of Military Force that President Barack Obama submitted to Congress on Wednesday would allow United States ground troops to engage in battle around the world. No matter what aspirations Obama may declare regarding limiting the use of...
Lawrence Wilkerson: Resist ‘Warmonger’ John McCain’s Call to Arm Ukraine
by Adam Dick | Feb 11, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Interviewed Tuesday on the Real News Network, Ron Paul Institute Academic Advisor Lawrence Wilkerson warned that following the advice of “warmongers like Senator John McCain and his cohorts” to “arm majorly” the Ukraine government is “probably one of the fastest ways”...
In Praise of Grover Cleveland
by Adam Dick | Feb 7, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Jesse Ventura released this week his new podcast conversation with Ron Paul. It is a pleasure to hear Ventura engage Paul in an unrushed, wide-ranging examination of United States wars and foreign policy, with some discussion of other matters including marijuana and...
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