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Folly of Escalation
by RT | Jun 13, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As Western leaders recklessly talk of escalating the conflict in Ukraine, European voters have sent the exact opposite message. The pro-war elites are clearly out of step with voters, and they have been punished for it. CrossTalking with Daniel McAdams, Richard Cook,...
Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Misnamed Florida Freedom Fund
by Adam Dick | Jun 11, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Politico reported Monday that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has started the Florida Freedom Fund. That news by itself sounds promising considering DeSantis has taken significant action in the state to advance freedom, including resisting the imposing of coronavirus...
Who Doesn’t Like Free Things?
by Daniel McAdams | Jun 10, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
While the saying "there's no such thing as a free lunch" rings true more often than not, to every rule there must be exceptions. One such exception is the Mises Institute. For more than 40 years the Mises Institute has done more than any organization to educate people...
Deborah Birx Is Back: Humans and Cows Be Warned
by Adam Dick | Jun 5, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Remember Deborah Birx, the “scarf lady” United States bureaucrat who joined President Donald Trump and chief coronavirus fearmonger Anthony Fauci for regular televised briefings to whip up fear of coronavirus and support for crackdowns and new health practices...
Chase Oliver’s War and Peace Platform Plank
by Adam Dick | May 30, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Sunday, delegates at the Libertarian Party National Convention by majority vote selected Chase Oliver to be the party’s presidential nominee. Individuals seeking an anti-war candidate to support in the United States presidential race will be looking into Oliver’s...
Ron Paul’s Speech at the Libertarian Party National Convention
by Adam Dick | May 28, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Sunday, Ron Paul spoke to the delegates assembled at the Libertarian Party National Convention. It is something Paul has done periodically — including while he was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives — in the years since he was the...
Students for Liberty Is Aiding Georgia Protests
by Adam Dick | May 24, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Don’t be fooled, college students. While Students for Liberty describes itself as a “classical liberal” organization with libertarian members, it is not an organization that promotes nonintervention abroad. In December of 2021, I wrote about leaders of Students for...
President Joe Biden’s Underwhelming Marijuana Reform Accomplishments
by Adam Dick | May 22, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In October of 2022, I wrote about the underwhelming nature of President Joe Biden’s pardons for some people convicted of marijuana offenses. What Biden proclaimed was a big rollback in the war on marijuana was really much less. The same goes for the new effort by the...
Bring Back Constitutional Money
by Adam Dick | May 17, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The United States Constitution specifies that gold and silver are money. “No State shall … make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts,” declares the Constitution. Further, one of the enumerated powers the Constitution lists for the US...
The Libertarian Nonparty
by Adam Dick | May 15, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Check out the United States Libertarian Party’s website for its national convention later this month at which a major focus will be the choosing of the party’s presidential nominee. You see something very peculiar. Up top at the home page is a picture of a portion of...
Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Turner Ashby Ride Again
by Adam Dick | May 10, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Over the last few years there has been a movement to rid America of the sight of anything having to do with the former Confederate States of America (CSA), such as the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia and statues of CSA military leaders. The movement has...
That Time Scott Horton Proposed Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich Run Together on a Presidential Ticket
by Adam Dick | Apr 25, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Earlier this week, I wrote about a “what if” election scenario: What if Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, who had competed at the same time for, respectively, the Republican and Democratic presidential nomination, had instead run together on a presidential ticket? After...
RIP: Tom Phillips, Benefactor and Philanthropist.
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 20, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Tom Philips was a great man whose generosity knew no bounds. He opened not only his then substantial pocketbook - having been a very savvy and successful entrepreneur - but also his own home with a single intent: to nurture a new generation of journalists who...
Good News: US Troops Are Set to Leave Niger
by Adam Dick | Apr 20, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The United States military has a tendency to park itself in a country and not budge even after its presence has proven catastrophic or the government of the country has demanded it leave. Well, here is some good news. Daphne Psaledakis at Reuters reported Friday that...
See Texas in Your Kei Truck
by Adam Dick | Apr 16, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In the 1950s Dinah Shore sang her encouragement to “see the USA in your Chevrolet.” Decades later, some Americans would like to take that road trip in their kei trucks imported from Asia. But, for the time being, legal restrictions may cause them to limit that road...
A Glimmer of Hope for Julian Assange
by Adam Dick | Apr 10, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Julian Assange is very near the end of his appeal process in his effort to prevent his extradition from Great Britain to the United States, where he is set to be prosecuted for making public US government secrets — practicing journalism. On Wednesday, US President Joe...
Still Trying to End the Vietnam War Killings
by Adam Dick | Apr 10, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The Vietnam War ended nearly 50 years ago. Still, the killing and maiming is not over. People continue to suffer from and succumb to injuries from the war long past. And others, often people born since the war’s end, are killed or injured by the explosion of some of...
Ron Paul Is Worried About the US Government, Not China or Russia
by Adam Dick | Apr 9, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
David Lin, in the Monday episode of the David Lin Report, asked libertarian communicator Ron Paul what nations Paul considers top adversaries or competitors internationally, suggesting that World War III could arise from conflict with one of them. In response, Paul...
In New Bird Flu Scare Comes Tacit Admission Coronavirus Was Not a Big Deal
by Adam Dick | Apr 5, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
“Bird flu pandemic could be ‘100 times worse’ than COVID, scientists warn.” That is the headline at the New York Post for one of many media reports out Thursday spreading the latest pandemic scare. Note the “100 times worse” comparison. Why not “nearly as bad,” “as...
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