1. All of this can be solved by following the voluntary principle: If you are worried then stay home. If you are willing to assume the risk then go to work. Going to work means you may interact with people and thus get sick. It's a risk. The other people at work took...
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Rhode Island Governor Using Coronavirus Fear to Justify Sending the Military House-to-House
by Adam Dick | Mar 28, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Rhode Island Governor Gina M. RaimondoMilitary abuses, including house-to-house searches, were among the primary reasons Americans offered to explain why they sought to secede from Great Britain in the 1700s. Now, an American governor is sending national guard forces...
Los Angeles County Backtracks on Teen’s Possible COVID-19 Death
by Robert Wenzel | Mar 26, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Drama queens and authoritarians everywhere must be disappointed.It turns out a California teen who was supposed to be "the first teenager in the United States to die from COVID-19" had other complications not originally reported.Hours after California's Governor and...
The Voice of a Tyrant: Los Angeles Mayor Tells ‘Nonessential’ Businesses ‘We Will Shut You Down’
by Adam Dick | Mar 25, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The freedom of business owners to operate their businesses and of employees to continue working at their jobs is under attack in America in the name of fighting coronavirus. Run afoul of the many restrictions on businesses found in the proliferating crackdowns on...
Speaker Pelosi’s Daughter Encourages Violence Against Senator Rand Paul
by Daniel McAdams | Mar 23, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a bizarre and deeply disturbing Tweet, Christine Pelosi, the daughter of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, has responded to Senator Rand Paul's (R-KY) announcement that he had tested positive for coronavirus by applauding the...
Twitter Is Using Extreme Scare Tactics to Discourage People from Looking at Coronavirus Information
by Adam Dick | Mar 23, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
First, the Twitter company went on a rampage banning Twitter posts and people from the social media platform, largely targeting tweets and people who do not fall in line with ideas pushed by the United States government and US mainstream media. Now, Twitter is using...
CENSORSHIP by Medium of Analysis of Covid-19 Spread and Policy
by Robert Wenzel | Mar 22, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute, sent me a link to an essay at Medium about the spread of COVID-19 and the proper policy. He wrote: Best thing I've seen on covid-19...Long but worth reading: The author of the piece, Aaron Ginn, using data...
Will the People Vote Out Politicians Instituting a Coronavirus Crackdown?
by Adam Dick | Mar 21, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Governments at the local, state, and national levels in America have been instituting this month increasingly draconian crackdowns on the public in the name of fighting coronavirus. Politicians supporting these oppressive actions, including “stay at home” orders that...
Rep. Thomas Massie Versus the Coronavirus Power-Grabbers in Government
by Adam Dick | Mar 21, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Fear of coronavirus, or the use of such fear being present among the people to justify expanding control, is driving decisions in much of American local, state, and national governments. Limiting international travel, prohibiting people from eating or drinking in...
GameStop Standing Up to Government Demands to Close Stores
by Adam Dick | Mar 20, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
One of the most basic and important freedoms is the freedom to engage in commerce. That freedom is under attack from state and local governments demanding that some businesses, often termed “nonessential,” limit or suspend their operations because of the coronavirus.A...
Coronavirus and the Rise of Social Media Censorship
by Adam Dick | Mar 17, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
If you thought the removing of content and the suspending and exiling of individuals from social media platforms has been bad over the last few years, expect the problem to worsen now that coronavirus is on the scene. With coronavirus fear affecting social media...
Danger: US Census Forms Are Being Mailed This Week
by Adam Dick | Mar 13, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Potentially dangerous letters are being mailed to millions of homes across America starting this week. The letters are not rigged to explode. Still, they may be quite dangerous for recipients. These letters contain questionnaires from the United States Census Bureau....
Making the Best of Running a ‘Sure to Lose’ Libertarian Presidential Campaign
by Adam Dick | Mar 9, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Even most libertarians would probably agree that it is just about a sure bet that none of the current candidates or commonly discussed potential candidates for the Libertarian Party’s 2020 presidential nomination would, if he becomes the party’s nominee, defeat the...
The Return of Mayor Kucinich?
by Adam Dick | Mar 7, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
It has been 40 years since Dennis Kucinich completed his term as mayor of Cleveland, Ohio in 1979. Kucinich, who had been tagged as the “boy mayor” given his age and youthful appearance when mayor, went on to later hold elected office in the Cleveland city council...
Bye-Bye, Libertarian Party Chairman
by Adam Dick | Mar 5, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
United States Libertarian Party Chairman Nicholas Sarwark announced at Facebook last night that he will not seek reelection as party chairman at the Libertarian Party national convention in late May. Sarwark’s activities during his time a Libertarian Party chairman...
Jacob Hornberger, Libertarian Presidential Race Frontrunner?
by Adam Dick | Mar 4, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Matt Welch concluded his Wednesday Reason article regarding Super Tuesday results for the Libertarian Party presidential race with this statement: “Much can and will change between now and late May but, for the moment, Jacob Hornberger is your Libertarian...
SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT: Koch/Soros Think Tank Isn’t Promoting World Peace After All
by RPI Staff | Mar 4, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Koch/Soros funded Quincy Institute held its first foreign policy conference last week in Washington, DC. Some heralded it as a breakthrough for peace and a non-interventionist reorientation. RPI's Daniel McAdams joined the Corbett Report to dissent strongly from...
Thomas Massie, ‘One of the Most Unusual Members of the US House’
by Adam Dick | Feb 28, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A Thursday profile of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) at the Cincinnati Enquirer declares that “neighbors, colleagues and friends all agree: Massie, who is running this year for a fifth term, is one of the most unusual members of the US House.” You can read the profile here...
Marijuana Legalization at State Legislatures and on Voters’ Ballots this Year
by Adam Dick | Feb 21, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
There was much reason for hope that marijuana legalization would be approved in several state legislatures in 2019. In January of 2019, I suggested that such action could be taken that year in any of six states — Connecticut, Illinois, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New...
Rubber-Stamping Gun Grabbing
by Adam Dick | Feb 18, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Proponents of red flag laws in states or countrywide often assert that the laws protect targeted individuals’ due process rights. However, examining the exercise of the Florida red flag law in Broward County, Jacob Sullum provided in a Reason article last week plenty...
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