Interviewed Tuesday on Fox Business, three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul rejected the ongoing United States intervention in Syria, stating emphatically that he sees “no reason in the world for us to be involved in Syria.” Referring to the US government’s...
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Senate Criminal Justice Reform Bill Would Create New Mandatory Minimum Sentences
by Adam Dick | Oct 6, 2015 | Congress Alert
No wonder Americans have such disdain for Congress. On Thursday, a bipartisan group of nine United States senators joined together to introduce the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. In a press release heralding the bill’s introduction, sponsor Sen. Chuck Grassley...
Eric Margolis: US Fight Against ‘Covert Western Asset’ ISIS is a ‘Big Charade’
by Adam Dick | Oct 2, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Eric Margolis returned to the Scott Horton Show on Wednesday for another intriguing interview regarding international relations and war. In the interview, Margolis, a Ron Paul Institute Academic Board member and international affairs writer, lifted the lid on the...
End the Marijuana ‘Sin Taxes’
by Adam Dick | Sep 29, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Legal marijuana in Colorado has been a boon for freedom, allowing people to make, transfer, and consume marijuana products free from the threat of arrest by state or local police. At the same time, there is an unfortunate side-effect of the liberalization of marijuana...
Washington’s Bias Toward War
by Adam Dick | Sep 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
College of William & Mary Professor and Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member Lawrence Wilkerson examined, in an interview last week with host Paul Jay on the Real News Network, the connection between war and profits. War brings profits, and this feeds a...
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Dresses Down Drug War ‘Bitter-Enders’
by Adam Dick | Sep 23, 2015 | Congress Alert
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the United States government’s war on drugs, and especially its war on marijuana, is being torn down by state and local governments choosing to move in a less punitive direction. But, drug warriors, in and out of government,...
Eric Margolis: When Assad Is Gone, We Will Definitely Miss Him
by Adam Dick | Sep 21, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Friday with host Scott Horton on the Scott Horton Show, Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member Eric Margolis related the devastating consequences foreign intervention to depose Syria President Bashar al-Assad has created, as well as the further devastation...
Was Ahmed Mohamed’s Arrest Really All About Religion and Race?
by Adam Dick | Sep 19, 2015 | Featured Articles
Many people are framing the arrest of student Ahmed Mohamed at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas on Monday in terms of Mohamed’s race and religion. The argument goes that a white and non-Muslim student would not have been arrested as was Mohamed for bringing to...
New Hampshire Library Stands Up to US Government, Reinstates Tor Relay
by Adam Dick | Sep 16, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The board of trustees overseeing the Kilton Public Library in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, on Tuesday decided, despite pushback from the United States Department of Homeland Security, to reinstate a Tor relay the board had approved in an effort to enhance privacy on...
Assange, Manning, and Snowden (as Statues) Challenging War in Geneva
by Adam Dick | Sep 14, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The whistleblowers and government secrets revealers Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden are not free to travel. But, this week — in the form of a sculpture including their life-size bronze statues — they are standing in a Geneva, Switzerland plaza near...
Ron Paul Discusses Evangelical Zionists’ Support for US Wars
by Adam Dick | Sep 12, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul, the former United States presidential candidate and Republican House of Representatives member from Texas, discussed in an August 8 radio interview evangelical Zionists who support the US government’s wars overseas. Paul examines the matter with Patriot’s...
Ron Paul: The More US Intervention, the More Chaos in the Middle East
by Adam Dick | Sep 10, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking Wednesday with host Charles Payne on Fox Business, Ron Paul Institute Chairman and Founder Ron Paul said “interventionism of Republicans and Democrats” to “remake the Middle East” is to blame for the “utter mess” from which many Middle Easterners are fleeing....
States Can Build Up the Border Police State Too
by Adam Dick | Sep 9, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The border-industrial complex has not been content to just count the money and gloat after receiving millions upon millions in “border security” dollars from the United States government. There is more easy money to be had if states can be convinced to take a bigger...
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Using Al-Qaeda to Fight ISIS is Crazy and Dangerous
by Adam Dick | Sep 6, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
College of William & Mary Professor and Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member Lawrence Wilkerson frankly assesses that former United States General and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director David Petraeus’ proposal that the US support al-Qaeda to fight the...
Buy the Rights-Abusing Cops Lunch Says Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
by Adam Dick | Sep 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick issued a statement Wednesday that says that, to counter “America’s negative attitude toward our law enforcement officers,” people should all-but grovel at the feet of any police they come across. Patrick even suggests that...
Families Choose Homeschooling to Escape Draconian California Vaccination Mandates
by Adam Dick | Sep 1, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There is an “out” for Californian parents and children dreading the July 2016 implementation of the state’s recently adopted Senate Bill 277 — draconian legislation eliminating exemptions to child vaccination mandates. That out is homeschooling, and many Californian...
Sexual Assault by the TSA is OK, Except in the Airport Bathroom
by Adam Dick | Aug 28, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Here is some welcome news for travelers. There seems to be a limit to where Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees can sexually assault travelers — at least at the New York City LaGuardia Airport. WABC-TV reports that a TSA agent was arrested Thursday...
Telling Your Child to Call 911 in an Emergency Can Be Dangerous
by Adam Dick | Aug 27, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Cop Block co-founder Pete Eyre released a new video this week that, in just four minutes, explains clearly why telling children just to dial 911 is not the best means to ensure children’s safety in emergencies. Just as important, Eyre presents in the video several...
Hear Ron Paul, Andrew Napolitano, and Tom Woods from Paul’s 80th Birthday Celebration
by Adam Dick | Aug 22, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Were you unable to make it to Ron Paul’s 80th birthday celebration on August 15? Did you attend the party and now want to hear again the speeches Paul, Andrew Napolitano, and Tom Woods delivered that afternoon to the 675 people who had gathered together in Paul’s...
Firing House Speaker John Boehner
by Adam Dick | Aug 20, 2015 | Congress Alert
Shortly before United States House of Representatives members left Washington, DC for the August recess, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) introduced a resolution declaring the office of speaker of the house vacant. The passing of the resolution would effectively fire House...
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