US House of Representatives rules were strictly enforced Tuesday to prevent a full House vote on a pro-gun rights amendment offered by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) despite the earlier incorporation into the bill of a pro-drug war amendment that would also appear to be...
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Dennis Kucinich: Americans ‘Have to Break the War Culture’
by Adam Dick | Jul 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In an engaging, wide-ranging interview with Peter Z. Scheer at Truthdig, RPI Advisory Board Member Dennis Kucinich expanded on his statement earlier this month on Democracy Now that “interventionism is not the wave of the future,” by explaining in the new interview...
Resolution Requiring US Military Withdrawal from Iraq on the Fast Track to US House Vote
by Adam Dick | Jul 14, 2014 | Congress Alert
A resolution requiring the removal from Iraq of all US military troops who are not protecting diplomatic facilities and personnel that was introduced Friday in the US House of Representatives by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) is on the fast track to a debate and vote in the...
Ron Paul Rewind: Israel Encouraged Growth of Hamas
by Adam Dick | Jul 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
As the death toll from the Israel government’s air strikes increases and its military prepares for a ground invasion of Gaza that the Israeli government justifies as a response to Hamas hostilities, consider former Rep. Ron Paul’s January 9, 2009 speech on the US...
Media Blaming Libertarians for Republican Candidates’ Losses Four Months Before Election
by Adam Dick | Jul 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
The media is not waiting until after the November general election to blame Libertarian Party candidates for Republican Party candidates’ upcoming losses. Indeed, Libertarian candidates are already being blamed for the Republicans’ potential failure to gain a majority...
House to Vote on ‘Expedited and Dignified’ TSA Screenings for Some People, Sometimes
by Adam Dick | Jul 7, 2014 | Congress Alert
The US House of Representatives is scheduled to consider on Tuesday the Honor Flight Act (HR 4812) that would require the Transportation Security Administration to work with a non-profit organization to establish a process for providing “expedited and dignified...
Ron Paul: US Threatening Greater Middle East War, Stock Market Crash, and Oil and Gold Rise
by Adam Dick | Jul 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over at the Ron Paul Channel, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul is warning of consequences from the US government escalating its military involvement in Iraq. Paul concludes: Expect one day for this insanity of our foreign policy to translate into a much greater war...
Rep. Thomas Massie: ‘Declassify 9/11 Report to Prevent the Next 9/11’
by Adam Dick | Jul 1, 2014 | Congress Alert
In a new discussion at the YouTube channel of Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), Jones, an RPI Advisory Board member, discusses with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) the effort to declassify 28 pages of a joint House of Representatives and Senate Intelligence Committees report. The...
Ron Paul: No More US Aid to Syria Insurgents; Better for House to Impeach than Sue Obama
by Adam Dick | Jun 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ron Paul, speaking with Neil Cavuto on Fox News, explains that President Barack Obama’s proposal to spend a half-billion dollars on training and arming Syria insurgents will hurt Americans while helping the military industrial complex. Paul, RPI’s chairman and...
Ron Paul, the CIA, and Dr. Zhivago
by Adam Dick | Jun 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
It is no secret that Boris Pasternak’s 1957 novel Dr. Zhivago influenced RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul. Indeed, Dr. Zhivago and Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged are the only two works of fiction included in the list of 48 books at the end of Paul’s The Revolution: A...
RPI’s Adam Dick Discusses the Drug War, Elections, and Smokey and the Bandit on the Lions of Liberty Podcast
by Adam Dick | Jun 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI's Adam Dick joined the Lions of Liberty Podcast on Thursday for a discussion of the drug war and advancing liberty through electoral politics. Dick discusses with host Marc Clair how states and local governments going their own way on marijuana laws are overcoming...
Rep. Walter Jones on Foreign Policy: ‘We in America are in the Eleventh Hour’
by Adam Dick | Jun 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), an RPI Advisory Board member, discusses in-depth in a Friday C-SPAN Washington Journal interview his opposition to continued borrowing and spending for the United States to “police the world.” Jones says in the 33 minutes interview that the...
US House Rejects by 355 to 62 Vote Amendment to Limit Transfer of Military Weapons and Equipment to Local Police
by Adam Dick | Jun 20, 2014 | Congress Alert
By a vote of 355 “no” votes to 62 “yes” votes the United States House of Representatives voted down Thursday night an amendment offered by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act (HR 4870) that would have curtailed the transfer of US...
Ron Paul Appears in Movies Based on Novels Atlas Shrugged and Alongside Night
by Adam Dick | Jun 20, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Is former Member of the United States House of Representatives and current RPI Chairman Ron Paul “going Hollywood?” Not quite, he is still living in Texas and focused on protecting freedom. But, according to media reports, Paul has small roles in new movies based on...
Judge Andrew Napolitano: No New US War in Iraq
by Adam Dick | Jun 19, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Thursday on Fox News, RPI Advisory Board Member Andrew Napolitano explains that the United States government engaging in another war in Iraq would be contrary to US national interests as was the US invading and making war on Iraq in 2003. That prior Iraq war,...
Is Ron Paul the San Antonio Spurs of American Politics?
by Adam Dick | Jun 16, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many basketball fans are marveling at the San Antonio Spurs winning on Sunday night the team’s fifth nonconsecutive National Basketball Association championship. Cato Institute Executive Vice President David Boaz suggests at his institute’s website that people should...
Ron Paul: Help Neither the Iraq Government Nor the Insurgents
by Adam Dick | Jun 14, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul, in a US News and World Reports article Friday, succinctly addresses what the United States government should do in response to insurgents gaining greater control over parts of Iraq in the last few days. Contrary to the popular...
Rep. John Duncan: ‘Stop Trying to Take Care of the Whole World and Start Taking Care of Our Own Country’
by Adam Dick | Jun 13, 2014 | Congress Alert
Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN) brought one minute of hard-hitting reality to the United States House of Representatives on May 30, remarking that the United States government, with its over $17 trillion debt, is only escaping — for now — Detroit-style bankruptcy by...
So Long, Rep. Eric Cantor
by Adam Dick | Jun 11, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), who is in his seventh term in the United States House of Representatives and fourth year as House Republican majority leader, lost his primary race for reelection on Tuesday. That means Cantor will be out of the House when a new Congress...
Ron Paul: Legal Pot, Not SWAT
by Adam Dick | Jun 10, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul addresses Monday on the Ron Paul Channel the menacing militarization of police in the United States. Paul, the chairman and founder of RPI, explains the problem extends from small towns obtaining military combat vehicles to United States government agencies...
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