Speaking Tuesday in the Restoring Our Civil Liberties webinar put on by the Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF), libertarian communicator Ron Paul presented an examination of how efforts to bring about equality and safety via government dictate threaten liberty and...
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No Peace Dividend Again
by Adam Dick | Nov 10, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Back when the Soviet Union fell apart, there was much talk of a peace dividend — a big reduction in the United States government’s spending on militarism. The peace dividend did not arrive. Instead, the US government proceeded to spend big on the military and engage...

New York City’s New ‘Public Health’ Plan: Let Garbage Pile Up on the Sidewalks
by Adam Dick | Oct 29, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In the name of “public health,” the New York City government this week has been telling city employees to take the experimental coronavirus “vaccine” shots by Friday at 5 p.m. or be fired, or as the city government terms it, “placed on leave without pay.” Plenty of...

Joe Biden, a President Hiding from Reporters
by Adam Dick | Oct 23, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
If you have been thinking President Joe Biden has been skimping on having press conferences and interviews, and otherwise answering questions from reporters, you are correct.Largely absent from Biden’s presidential campaign were ordinary campaign activities, including...

In-N-Out Burger’s Great Freedom-centered Explanation for Its Refusal to Enforce Vaccine Passports
by Adam Dick | Oct 22, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When government mandates related to experimental coronavirus “vaccines” are thrust on businesses, it is heartening to see businesses refusing to comply. It is especially great to see a business back up its noncompliance with a well-stated, freedom-centered...

Travis Tritt’s Emphatic ‘No’ to Performing at ‘New Normal’ Venues
by Adam Dick | Oct 20, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Since early on in the coronavirus scare there has been a strong effort to condition people to accept that things will never return to normal and that people will need to adjust to a “new normal” in which life is hemmed in by new pervasive limitations on freedom in the...

As Fear Recedes, Americans’ Opposition to Expanding Government Rises
by Adam Dick | Oct 18, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Twice this century, a greater number of Americans, when asked a yearly Gallup survey question, said their opinion aligns more with the view that government “should do more to solve problems” than with the view that government is “trying to do too many things.” The...

A Desperate Biden Administration Turns to Terrorism
by Daniel McAdams | Oct 16, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
For Americans watching the shocking re-Nazification of Germany - where once again the ability to even buy food depends on a person's physiological/medical status - it may be tempting to downplay the re-emergence of a nasty German political virus and scoff that, "it...

Faulty Drug Field Tests Can Both Lead to Incarceration and Make Incarceration Worse
by Adam Dick | Oct 14, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In January of 2019, I wrote about how drug field tests that produce many false positive results are used as a basis for arresting and jailing people for drug crimes and have even been used as leverage to induce many people to plead guilty. But, that is not the entire...

Taking the Next Step Toward Mandatory Experimental Coronavirus Vaccine Shots for Younger Children, Pfizer and BioNTech Seek FDA Approval of Shots for Children Ages 5-11
by Adam Dick | Oct 7, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Children have virtually no risk of major sickness or death from coronavirus. And experimental coronavirus “vaccines” such as the one produced by the Pfizer and BioNTech do come with major known health risks of their own. Additional potential side effects of these...
California Governor Mandates Experimental Coronavirus Vaccine Shots for Schoolchildren
by Adam Dick | Oct 2, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Earlier today, I wrote that it would not be surprising if the California state government adds experimental coronavirus “vaccine” shots to the list of shots the state government mandates that schoolchildren in the state receive. Then, later today, California Governor...
San Diego School Board Mandates Experimental Coronavirus Vaccine Shots for Students. Next Up, Taking the Mandate Statewide?
by Adam Dick | Oct 1, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Tuesday, the school board for San Diego Unified School District in San Diego, California, voted unanimously to impose a mandate that students 16 years old and older can participate in in-person classes and extracurricular activities only if the students receive...
James Bovard Versus the TSA
by Adam Dick | Sep 29, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, there was a flurry of action establishing and expanding the United States government’s infringements of freedom in the name of making Americans safer. Along the way, political writer James Bovard documented the vile...

‘Don’t Be Bullied’ about Experimental Coronavirus Vaccine Shots Say Billboards in Several States
by Adam Dick | Sep 27, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
People driving around the Texas cities of Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas over the last few days have seen new billboards along major highways encouraging them to resist the incessant bullying from politicians, media, schools, businesses, and employers...

Rare Instance of a Professional Athlete Hospitalized for Coronavirus
by Adam Dick | Sep 21, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Many politicians, including United States President Joe Biden, like to drone on about how everybody should take experimental coronavirus vaccine shots. Yet, even if we suppose the shots provide much help against coronavirus, many people are at so little risk from...

Dennis Kucinich Places Close Third in Cleveland Mayor Primary
by Adam Dick | Sep 15, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Tuesday, Dennis Kucinich just missed qualifying for the general election for mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. The Cleveland native who previously served as mayor of the city in the 1970s before going on to several terms in the United States House of Representatives came...

Coronavirus Crackdowns and the Ratchet Effect
by Adam Dick | Sep 14, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
One of Robert Higgs’ great contributions to understanding government is his exploration of what he terms the ratchet effect. In a 2011 interview posted at the Mises Institute website, Higgs provided this succinct description of the ratchet effect: In my work, the...
September 11 Remembered, Minus the Propaganda – RPI’s Daniel McAdams With Tom Woods
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 14, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
I was really happy to join my great friend and brilliant communicator Tom Woods to look back at Sept. 11, 2001 with 20 years of hindsight. Tom and I discussed how it felt to have the "baptism of fire" of joining the Ron Paul Congressional Staff just after the NY and...

Children are Next in Line for Mandated Coronavirus Vaccine Shots
by Adam Dick | Sep 11, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Much attention is focused on President Joe Biden in a Thursday speech announcing that the coronavirus testing alternative United States government employees had been able to use to avoid the mandate to take experimental coronavirus vaccines is being eliminated and...

Apparent Delusional Talk from Cop Who Says He Shot Ashli Babbitt: ‘I Know That Day I Saved Countless Lives’
by Adam Dick | Aug 27, 2021 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“I know that day I saved countless lives,” United States Capitol Police cop Michael Byrd is quoted in a Thursday NBC News article as saying in regard to his actions on January 6 in resisting people who entered the Capitol, including Ashli Babbitt who Byrd says he shot...
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