photo: DaveybotPodcast host Adam Kokesh appears to have joined the long list of victims of the US government's drugs and guns prosecution trap. After a US Park Police raid on his Virginia residence last week, media reported Monday that Kokesh was charged with...
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House Passes Farm Bill With Partial Hemp Legalization
by Adam Dick | Jul 12, 2013 | Congress Alert
The US House of Representatives passed a new farm bill (H.R.2642) Thursday afternoon that would remove the US government prohibition on colleges and universities growing industrial hemp for research purposes in compliance with state laws. The partial removal of the US...
Roll Call Announces New National Security Blogger … Boeing!
by Adam Dick | Jul 4, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Roll Call announced this week the launch of its new blog, Topic A: Defense, for the "national security community." The blog is sponsored by Boeing—one of the highest dollar value US government contractors both overall and in the defense category.As explained in the...
McCain: ‘Vote For Berlin Wall!’
by Adam Dick | Jun 27, 2013 | Congress Alert
Sen. John McCain is promoting the so-called immigration bill (S.744) in the United States Senate by emphasizing it will create "the most militarized border since the fall of the Berlin Wall." Apparently, McCain believes this argument will convince other senators to...
Major Drug War Expansion on Senate Agenda This Week
by Adam Dick | Jun 24, 2013 | Congress Alert
The so-called immigration bill the United States Senate is considering this week (S.744) is about much more than immigration laws. As Ted Hesson explains at ABC News, the bill would significantly expand the US Border Patrol's already large role in the US government's...
Farm Freedom: US House Votes for Pro-Hemp Amendment
by Adam Dick | Jun 21, 2013 | Congress Alert
The United States House of Representatives voted 225-220 on Thursday to remove the US government prohibition on colleges and universities growing industrial hemp for research purposes in compliance with state laws. The vote was taken on an amendment offered by Rep....
Government’s Gun Law Ruse to Access Mental Health Records
by Adam Dick | Jun 19, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photo: grover_netYour appointment with a psychiatrist or admission to a mental health facility may now be included in United States and state government databases. What happened to the protection of medical privacy? The United States government and some state...
US Mass Spying Loses Obama's 'Shoddy Coat of Legitimacy'
by Adam Dick | Jun 16, 2013 | The Liberty Report
Declan McCullagh at cnet.com reports on Rep. Jerrold Nadler's revelation that the United States executive branch has admitted in a secret briefing to Members of the US House of Representatives that a US government analyst can listen to phone calls at his own...
Bill Kristol’s Cato Crush
by Adam Dick | Jun 14, 2013 | Neocon Watch
William Kristol is promoting at the Weekly Standard an article by "two of America’s leading libertarian legal thinkers, "no friends to intrusive government," to support Kristol's assertion that the National Security Agency mass secret spying program is a "legitimate...
Potential US House Amendment Would Help Edward Snowden
by Adam Dick | Jun 12, 2013 | Congress Alert
Roll Call reports that Reps. Justin Amash and Thomas Massie are considering introducing an amendment in the United States House of Representatives as early as this week that would protect National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden from prosecution. Snowden...
Are Internal Passports Next?
by Adam Dick | Jun 11, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
J.D. Tuccille relates at reason.com the sad history of dramatic deterioration in the United States government's respect for the freedom to travel. Tucille begins: Last week, my vacationing family was stopped at not one, but two, internal checkpoints along Interstate 8...
Bipartisan Agreement: Anti-TSA Amendment Disqualifies Rep. Broun from Winning Senate Race
by Adam Dick | Jun 11, 2013 | Congress Alert
United States Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia, who is running for US Senate, struck a nerve when he offered an amendment to eliminate funding for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) during consideration of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act...
US Government Spying: Constructing a ‘Turnkey Totalitarian State’?
by Adam Dick | Jun 9, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
photo: The U.S. Military Academy at West PointThe Washington Post reports that the ranking minority member of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence seems not too concerned about the United States government collecting information about our phone...
US Government Spying: Constructing a 'Turnkey Totalitarian State'?
by Adam Dick | Jun 9, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: The U.S. Military Academy at West PointThe Washington Post reports that the ranking minority member of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence seems not too concerned about the United States government collecting information about our phone...
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