With protests, riots, looting, and revolutionary acts rising over the last few days across the country, here is a bit of information for participants in these activities to keep in mind: There are likely government agents among you. These government agents are...
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Virginia’s Statewide Mask Mandate
by Adam Dick | May 27, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Starting Friday, people ten years old and older who are indoors just about anywhere in Virginia other than in private homes will be required by a new executive order of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to “cover their mouth and nose with a face covering, as described...
Gunshot Victims Count As Coronavirus Deaths in Washington State
by Robert Wenzel | May 26, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Here is more on the absurd and very curious order from the CDC to count any death of a COVID-19 infected person who has died as a "COVID-19 death."Democrat Washington governor Jay Inslee, whose daughter-in-law works for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, oversees...
Jacob Hornberger Comes in Second for Libertarian Presidential Nomination
by Adam Dick | May 24, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Future of Freedom Foundation President Jacob Hornberger failed to win the Libertarian Party presidential nomination in Saturday evening online voting by party delegates. Hornberger, who has spoken at Ron Paul Institute (RPI) events and whose articles have been...
Danger: Cops are on the Road
by Adam Dick | May 22, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“Once police stop you, a ticket is the least of your worries,” writes Jacob Sullum early on in his new Reason article “10 Ways a Roadside Police Stop Can Go Wrong.” After starting off with a short examination of the discretion police have to pull over vehicles on the...
Test Positive for Coronavirus, End Up in a Police Database
by Adam Dick | May 20, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
So you are curious whether you have coronavirus? You could take a coronavirus test to find out. Well, not really find out, since the test results are not reliable. Nonetheless, you can take a test to obtain at least a Magic 8 Ball level answer of if you are or are not...
US Sparking Another Tanker War with Iran?
by RPI Staff | May 19, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Is the US military about to take out four Iranian tanker ships carrying gasoline to Venezuela? US Sanctions on both countries have drawn them together as the rest of the world has been warned off trade. But Washington's neocons are furious that the two "pariah" states...
Wisconsin Supreme Court to the Rescue, Justices Void Much of Governor’s Coronavirus Crackdown
by Adam Dick | May 14, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Politicians across America who have been trampling on liberty via a multitude of mandates imposed in the name of countering coronavirus should beware. There may be a court of jurisdiction stomping out your tyrannical efforts soon. The Wisconsin Supreme Court led the...
Three Reminders from The Bill of Rights
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 13, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As a condition for accepting the Constitution, the American people demanded the enactment of the Bill of Rights immediately after ratification of the Constitution. They had been assured that the Constitution was calling into existence a national government whose...
Amid Record-Breaking Job Losses in America, Military Contractors Are Hiring
by Adam Dick | May 11, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Tens of millions of jobs have disappeared over the last couple months after government actions taken in the name of countering coronavirus sank an already suffering economy, including through mandating that many businesses shut down. Nevertheless, one group of...
Brooklyn District Attorney Refuses to Prosecute People Arrested for Not Complying with Social Distancing Mandates
by Adam Dick | May 8, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It is refreshing to see government officials across America refuse to participate in all or part of the ongoing coronavirus crackdowns. A new action in this admirable secession from the authoritarianism was taken by Eric Gonzalez, the district attorney for the New...
Unexceptional? Coronavirus and the End of American Empire
by RT | May 6, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The underlying narrative - some call it a "myth" – of American foreign policy is the country’s exceptional position on the world stage. This is the bipartisan consensus. However, the reality is very different. The global pandemic has demonstrated the U.S. should focus...
Rep. Justin Amash has Another National Media Interview about His Libertarian Presidential Campaign. He Again Says Nothing Libertarian.
by Adam Dick | May 5, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Thursday, I wrote about Rep. Justin Amash (L-MI), in a ten-minute interview at MSNBC focused on why he is interested in seeking the Libertarian Party presidential nomination, saying nothing libertarian. Further, I noted that, when Amash was asked about what a...
New Libertarian Presidential Candidate has Ten-Minute MSNBC Interview about Why He is Running, Says Nothing Libertarian
by Adam Dick | Apr 30, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
After Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI) established a committee this week to enable him to run for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination, he was interviewed for ten minutes at MSNBC regarding his candidacy. Did Amash use this time to advocate for accomplishing...
Mayor Defies State’s Coronavirus Shutdown
by Adam Dick | Apr 28, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Martin “Modey” Hicks, the mayor of Grants, New Mexico, has had enough of the mandate that businesses remain closed in the name of countering coronavirus. Russell Contreras reported last week at the Associated Press that Hicks, in defiance of an ongoing shutdown order...
The New Rules of Golf in the USAR (Union of Soviet American Republics)
by Thomas DiLorenzo | Apr 28, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The little Stalinist Mayor of Palm Beach County, FL , Dave Kerner, just issued another one of his unconstitutional and unlawful “emergency orders.” This time it was to begin opening up recreational activities in the county. Before making his announcement he told us...
Cato Institute Editorial: The Coronavirus Crackdown is Libertarian
by Adam Dick | Apr 23, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When you come across an editorial titled “Libertarianism and the Coronavirus Pandemic” at the website of the Cato institute that describes itself as “a public policy research organization — a think tank — dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited...
My Coronavirus Crackdown Predictions
by Adam Dick | Apr 21, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A while back, I made two predictions regarding the coronavirus crackdown in America. First, in an April 11 Ron Paul Institute (RPI) article, I predicted that across the country there would be a proliferation of protests with a growing number of supporters. Second, in...
Coronavirus Over-Reaction
by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Apr 20, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Throughout my 30 years in Congress, I noticed that very few of the Democrats in the House had ever run or even worked in a small or medium-sized business. In fact, while I got along with them personally, I found that some Democratic members and career bureaucrats...
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman Wants Her City to Reopen Now
by Adam Dick | Apr 20, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
If many more politicians viewed the coronavirus crackdown the way Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman has viewed it, America may have avoided plummeting into economic devastation with tens of millions of people losing their jobs and with many small businesses closed down...
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