Speaking Friday with Charles Goyette in their weekly podcast conversation, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul discusses his recommendations for young people interested in becoming involved in politics, including Paul’s guidance that people may advance freedom under...
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New House Resolution Calls for Declassifying Secret Portion of 9/11 Report
by Adam Dick | Dec 5, 2013 | Congress Alert
Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) introduced a resolution this week in the House of Representatives urging President Barack Obama to declassify 28 pages of a joint House and Senate Intelligence Committee report that includes information concerning foreign governments'...

House ‘Improves’ TSA Instead of Ending It
by Adam Dick | Dec 3, 2013 | Congress Alert
Following another Thanksgiving travel period with the Transportation Security Administration subjecting travelers to infuriating harassment, the House of Representatives leadership has scheduled for House floor consideration Tuesday three bills that will tinker with...

Free Speech Repressing Bureaucrat Threatens Alex Jones and Hundreds at Dallas Gathering
by Adam Dick | Nov 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
Wednesday night in front of the headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas I witnessed bureaucratic tyranny in action. There a mild-mannered and soft-spoken representative of the Dallas police threatened talk show host Alex Jones and over 200 people with $500...
Rep. Walter Jones: Congress Should Decide if US Military Stays in Afghanistan
by Adam Dick | Nov 21, 2013 | Congress Alert
Rep. Walter Jones, speaking on the US House of Representatives floor yesterday morning, called on Congress to exercise its constitutional power over US military policy in Afghanistan. In particular, Jones insisted that Congress debate and vote on the matter instead of...

Nullify the NSA
by Adam Dick | Nov 19, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Local and state governments can restrict the US National Security Agency's mass spying by cutting off electricity and water supplies to NSA facilities, banning state universities from participating in NSA research and development programs, and ending information...

Cisco blames NSA Spying for Reduced Sales
by Adam Dick | Nov 15, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Cisco Systems executives, whose company's stock price fell Thursday in percentage terms the most since February of 2011, are pointing to US National Security Agency spying as a cause of the reduced sales of its products including networking equipment. Cisco Systems...

Whistle-blower Cop Describes Stop-and-Frisk, Corruption at NYPD
by Adam Dick | Nov 13, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
New York City Police Department policeman Adhyl Polanco describes in a Democracy Now report and interview the corrupting and rights abusing quota system for stop-and-frisk, summons, and arrests in the largest local police department in the United States. Among other...

FBI v. The First Amendment: The US Government's Investigation of Antiwar.com
by Adam Dick | Nov 13, 2013 | Featured Articles
Federal Bureau of Investigation documents released last week reveal the FBI investigated Antiwar.com, a website regularly publishing content critical of US foreign policy, for at least six years based on the content and audience of the antiwar.com website, as well as...

Widespread Hostility Toward TSA is Justified
by Adam Dick | Nov 7, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Journalist extraordinaire James Bovard explains in a Washington Times editorial Tuesday why, even though many in the media do not want to admit it, there is widespread and justified hostility toward the Transportation Security Administration. Bovard writes: In the...
City Voters Legalize Liquor Stores and Marijuana
by Adam Dick | Nov 7, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Eighty years after the Twenty-First Amendment to the United States Constitution ended the US government's prohibition on alcohol, Jeff Mosier reports in the Dallas Morning News that in elections Tuesday residents of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex cities of Arlington...

Rep. Walter Jones: Stop Wasting American Money and Lives in Afghanistan
by Adam Dick | Nov 4, 2013 | Congress Alert
Rep. Walter Jones, an RPI Advisory Board member, presented last week on the House floor a short, powerful speech calling for ending US military action in, and the flow of Americans' tax money to, Afghanistan. Jones's speech focuses on continued US government spending...
Michael Scheuer Schools the House Homeland Security Committee
by Adam Dick | Oct 31, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a heated Q & A after his testimony this month before the US House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, RPI Academic Board Member Michael Scheuer educated committee members regarding how US government foreign interventions motivate people to fight the...
Ron Paul’s Push to End War on Pain Doctors — Fresh Attacks!
by Adam Dick | Oct 26, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The US Food and Drug Administration's announcement Thursday that it supports adding more pain medications to Schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act is a critical step in expanding through regulatory fiat the US government's war on pain doctors and their patients...
House Republicans’ Hollow ‘Local Control of Education’ Rhetoric
by Adam Dick | Oct 25, 2013 | Congress Alert
By guiding HR 2083, the Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act, to the Floor Tuesday for passage by a voice vote, the House Republican leadership demonstrated the hollowness of the praise it heaped on local control of education when HR 5, the...
US Mass Spying Targets Mexico Presidents to Advance the Drug War
by Adam Dick | Oct 21, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In contrast to the counter-terrorism narrative used to defend the US government's mass spying program, unfolding revelations suggest the program's Latin America efforts are focused on much besides terrorism. First, evidence arose that the US spying program, alone and...

American Hemp Farming Poised for Resurgence Despite US Prohibition
by Adam Dick | Oct 17, 2013 | Featured Articles
This month Ryan Loflin, along with a group of volunteers, completed on his Colorado farm the first public hemp harvest in the US since Colorado voters approved legalizing the farming and distribution of both marijuana and hemp last November. The Loflin farm harvest is...

Sen. Ron Wyden Warns of Fake Surveillance Reform and the Economic Harm of US Mass Spying
by Adam Dick | Oct 13, 2013 | Congress Alert
US Sen. Ron Wyden, in a Guardian article he wrote based on his speech at a Cato Institute event this week, reinforces RPI's warnings that efforts to reform the US government mass spying program "provide an excellent opportunity to make bad legislation worse" and that...

Cop in Tank: Freeze, Drop that Steak!
by Adam Dick | Oct 12, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In the continuing rise of SWAT, police in Napoleon Dynamite's hometown now have a tank. William N. Grigg, in his latest article at Pro Libertate, explores the small Idaho town's acquisition of the military armored vehicle at no cost and the ominous US government...

Canada Joins US in the Hot Seat for Industrial Espionage
by Adam Dick | Oct 9, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff, after condemning US government mass spying on Brazilian companies in her speech last month before the United Nations General Assembly, is now singling out the Canada government for engaging in industrial espionage targeting Brazil's...
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