Suppose your neighborhood experienced a dramatic increase in home break-ins. What might you and your neighbors do in response? Some residents may join together in a neighborhood watch. Many residents will review their home security precautions. Some people will put...
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Judge Napolitano: NSA Intercepting Private Photos ‘Blatantly Violates the Constitution’
by Adam Dick | Jun 4, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano condemns as a violation of privacy and the United States Constitution the recently revealed US National Security Agency practice of intercepting millions of images each day from communications including emails, text messages, and...
Ron Paul: 'Get Rid Of the NSA'
by Adam Dick | Jun 4, 2014 | The Liberty Report
RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul, speaking with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business this week, says that the recently revealed mass interception, storage, and analysis of images contained in private electronic communications is “another reason to get rid of the NSA.” Paul...
Ron Paul Rewind: Legalize Medical Marijuana and Hemp
by Adam Dick | Jun 2, 2014 | The Liberty Report
The US House of Representatives voted Friday to require the US government to respect states’ laws legalizing medical marijuana and hemp. The move is an endorsement of the significant drug war rollbacks that RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul had promoted for years in...
US House Votes to Respect States’ Medical Marijuana and Hemp Legalization
by Adam Dick | May 31, 2014 | Congress Alert
An appropriations bill passed Friday in the United States House of Representatives and on its way to the US Senate contains provisions calling for the United States government to stop treading on states’ efforts to legalize medical marijuana and industrial hemp.The...
Sen. Ron Wyden: House-Passed USA FREEDOM Act is ‘Reform in Name Only’
by Adam Dick | May 29, 2014 | Congress Alert
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), speaking Wednesday in his home state of Oregon, declared that the “Status Quo Caucus” including “intelligence leadership, their friends in the House of Representatives, [and] their allies in academia” had successfully transformed the USA FREEDOM...
Lew Rockwell: Central Banks Make World Wars Possible
by Adam Dick | May 28, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As people worry a new world war may rise out of Ukraine, RPI Advisory Board Member Lew Rockwell proposes Wednesday on the Tom Woods Show that the creation of central banks makes world wars possible. Rockwell's comments regarding central banking are made in a...
Can Kinky Friedman Bring Legal Marijuana and Hemp to Texas?
by Adam Dick | May 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Kinky Friedman, who is competing in a runoff election Tuesday for the Democratic Party nomination for Texas Agriculture Commissioner, describes his race as “kind of a referendum on lifting this prohibition on hemp and on pot.” Can Friedman, who has gained notoriety...
Walter Block’s Libertarian Journey: Booing Ayn Rand and Playing Risk with Murray Rothbard
by Adam Dick | May 26, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a new interview with Kyle Platt at Liberty.me, RPI Academic Board Member Walter Block — jovial as usual — tells the lively tale of his discovery of libertarian ideas as a young man. It all started in the early 1960s when Block, then — in Block’s words — a “pinko...
Rep. Zoe Lofgren: USA FREEDOM Act Secretly ‘Altered in Worrisome Ways’
by Adam Dick | May 23, 2014 | Congress Alert
On Wednesday — the day before the United States House of Representatives voted to approve the USA FREEDOM Act (HR 3361) — Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) explained on the House floor that back room machinations changed the bill between the votes approving it in the House...
Judge Napolitano on Obama Helping ‘Targeted Killings Memo’ Author Become Judge
by Adam Dick | May 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Judge Andrew Napolitano, speaking with Shepard Smith on Fox News, denounces President Barack Obama’s ongoing delay in providing the legal arguments used to justify the executive branch’s “targeted killings” program. In particular, Napolitano criticizes Obama’s refusal...
Toothless USA FREEDOM Act Losing Support
by Adam Dick | May 22, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
NSA Champion Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) The USA FREEDOM Act (HR 3361), which is supposedly designed to thwart the US government’s mass spying program, appears to be confirming RPI Executive Director Daniel McAdams’ warning from September: “beware NSA spying and beware...
US House Considers Gold Medal for Shimon Peres, Bill Touts US-Israel “Unbreakable Bond”
by Adam Dick | May 19, 2014 | Congress Alert
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor with Shimon Peres The United States House of Representatives is scheduled to consider today awarding a Congressional Gold Medal to Israel President Shimon Peres. Notably, the short bill, HR 2939, that authorizes the creation of the...
Rep. John Fleming’s Marijuana and Libertarians Disinformation Campaign
by Adam Dick | May 18, 2014 | Congress Alert
Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) presented his absurd and deceptive campaign against all marijuana use in his opening statement for a hearing regarding marijuana laws held by a subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the morning of May 9. In the...
Ron Paul Praises States’ Nullification of US Marijuana Prohibition
by Adam Dick | May 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, Wednesday on Fox Business’ The Independents, praises state governments’ nullification of marijuana prohibition. Paul, though, proceeds to warn against the taxation motivation behind liberalizing marijuana laws, noting that “if you had a libertarian society,...
Is Today ‘Lie about Ron Paul in Headlines Day’?
by Adam Dick | May 13, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Looking at the Washington Post and Rare, one has to wonder if today is Lie about Ron Paul in Headlines Day. First, the Washington Post published an article with the headline “Ron Paul thinks drug use is rampant inside prisons. He’s wrong.” That is a rather provocative...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Oligarchs Run US Foreign Policy
by Adam Dick | May 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
William & Mary Professor and RPI Academic Board Member Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, in an in-depth interview with this week with Paul Jay on the Real News Network, argues that oligarchs run United States foreign policy. Having served in US government positions...
Ron Paul on the Benghazi Partisan Sideshow
by Adam Dick | May 9, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While noting that the killing of two US diplomats, including the US ambassador to Libya, and CIA contractors in Benghazi, Libya is a “big issue” that merits attention, Ron Paul explains at the Ron Paul Channel that much of the commotion in Congress concerning the...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Ukraine Rhetoric and Sanctions Threatening World War
by Adam Dick | May 4, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking with Lindsay France on RT this week, explains that, in order to prevent “a shooting war that grows evermore larger,” the United States, Russia, and the nations of the EU and NATO should focus on ensuring Ukraine neutrality. Wilkerson,...
Rep. Walter Jones’ Refreshing Voting Philosophy
by Adam Dick | May 3, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In an Associated Press article focused on outside groups spending over $1 million to defeat US House Member Walter Jones (R-NC) in his May 6 primary, Jones, an RPI Advisory Board member, explains his voting philosophy: "I heard years ago — it might have been from my...
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