It is not just ice cream melting off cones in the 100-plus degrees heat of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The reactions of local police chiefs to two recent high profile incidents of apparent police brutality and unjustified killing in the metroplex of around seven...
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Looking Back: Ron Paul’s Interviews with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
by Adam Dick | Aug 9, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Though Jon Stewart on Thursday concluded his 16-year run as host of The Daily Show, Stewart’s interviews will live on — including his informative and entertaining interviews with former US House of Representatives member and presidential candidate Ron Paul. While...
Reminder: Ron Paul’s Birthday Party is Saturday, August 15, and You Are Invited!
by Adam Dick | Aug 8, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In case you missed the earlier announcement or have not yet made your reservation, please be advised that you are invited to join the many liberty lovers who will celebrate Ron Paul’s birthday in Lake Jackson, Texas on Saturday, August 15. Paul turns 80 this month....
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Cop Handcuffing Children for Acting Up in School is Assault
by Adam Dick | Aug 5, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The handcuffing of two children, ages 8 and 9, at a Kentucky school by Kenton County Deputy Sheriff Kevin Sumner is an assault, and not a legal means of discipline, says Judge Andrew Napolitano in a Tuesday interview with Fox News host Gretchen Carlson. Napolitano...
Lew Rockwell: Ron Paul’s New Book on War and Peace is Paul’s ‘Most Important Book’
by Adam Dick | Aug 5, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Lew Rockwell, in his Wednesday lewrockwell.com podcast interview with Ron Paul, heaps praise on Paul’s new book Swords into Plowshares: A Life in Wartime and a Future of Peace and Prosperity. Rockwell begins the interview noting that Swords into Plowshares is Paul’s...
Hillary’s Libyan Torturers
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 4, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Remember when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was so intent on a US attack on Libya that she disregarded the US Intelligence Community, the Pentagon, and even her colleagues in the Obama Administration to force her "humanitarian intervention"? Clinton was so...
Obama Authorizes War on Assad, Congress AWOL
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 3, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
When the first group of US-trained fighters were inserted into Syria on Friday, Washington experienced a great shock. Tasked with fighting alongside al-Qaeda's Syrian franchise, the Nusra Front, Washington's newest proxy army in Syria was expected be welcomed by the...
Breaking: Daniel McAdams on Russia Veto of MH17 Tribunal Proposal at UNSC
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 29, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
RPI Executive Director Daniel McAdams was interviewed on RT as Russia vetoed a UN resolution to set up a tribunal to look into the downing of Malaysian airlines flight MH-17. Co-drafted by Ukraine, which is one of the suspects in the crime, McAdams points out that...
Ron Paul: Look to Switzerland for Path toward Peace
by Adam Dick | Jul 25, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former US presidential candidate and House of Representatives member Ron Paul says people seeking to advance peace can learn much from looking to Switzerland. Paul made his recommendation in an extensive interview with host Eric Dubin on Liberty Rising Radio focused...
Video: TSA Supervisor Threatens Young Man Filming the Patdown Of His Father
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 24, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We have yet another case of a police or security officer threatening a citizen for recording an encounter. The videotape below was taken by a young man who filmed the putdown of his father at the New Orleans airport. The supervisor warns the young man that he will be...
On Social Security? Obama Wants Your Gun!
by Adam Dick | Jul 20, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In a move that Alan Zarembo of the Los Angeles Times reports could result in the US government barring millions of Americans from owning guns, President Barack Obama’s administration has been quietly planning to have the Social Security Administration report the...
‘This Flag Never Goes Down’: Amazon Reportedly Takes Down Historical Book On Confederate Flag Due To Confederate Flag On Cover
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 20, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The extensive move to remove the Confederate Flag from public and some commercial settings has raised serious concerns over both free speech and academic freedom. While the flag has been used as a racist symbol, it is also a historical symbol. According to one author,...
Praise for Swords into Plowshares from Charles Goyette
by Adam Dick | Jul 20, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Bestselling author Charles Goyette, who hosted with Ron Paul a series of fascinating podcasts regarding current events, is praising Paul’s new book Swords into Plowshares: A life in Wartime and a Future of Peace and Prosperity. Writes Goyette: I received a review copy...
AIPAC Employees Told to Ax Summer Vacation Plans and Gear Up to Fight Iran Deal
by Robert Wenzel | Jul 19, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Cancel your summer vacations. That was the order AIPAC’s executive director, Howard Kohr, gave his employees in a staff meeting convened this week at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee after the United States announced the Iran nuclear deal, reports the...
Obama to Bibi: Want Some (More) Money?
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul has always said that US foreign policy is incredibly simple: do what we say and we will send you money; disobey and we will bomb you. While there is (fortunately) little threat of the US dropping bombs on Israel over that country's hysterical opposition to...
Swords into Plowshares: Ron Paul Talks New Book to Alan Colmes
by RPI Staff | Jul 17, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Alan Colmes makes the great point that Ron Paul's timing is spectacular for his new book Swords into Plowshares, as the forces of peace seem to have triumphed in the deal with Iran. It is "beautifully written" says Colmes, who brings up Paul's point that sometimes...
Time For a Cleansing
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Jul 16, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The NAACP is demanding that the giant carving at Stone Mountain, GA, of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson be sandblasted into oblivion. Off with the pagan carvings of slaveholders at Mr. Rushmore, too. In this same spirit, there are calls to tear...
Ron Paul Takes on Neocon: ‘We’ve Got a Schizophrenic Foreign Policy’
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 15, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
We're with the Iranians because we are both fighting ISIS but we're against the Iranians because they are on the side of Assad. That is why RPI Chairman Ron Paul described our foreign policy as "schizophrenic" in a Newsmax debate on the Iran deal. On the Iran talks,...
Kiev’s Contradictions
by Daniel McAdams | Jul 15, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
With the extremist "Right Sector" militias beginning to foment unrest in western Ukraine, will US-backed president Poroshenko move against his most dedicated storm troopers or will they move against him? Ukraine is breaking apart and no amount of EU or US goodwill...
You Are Invited to Ron Paul’s Birthday Party! — Saturday, August 15 in Lake Jackson, Texas
by RPI Staff | Jul 15, 2015 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Former US House Member and presidential candidate Ron Paul is having a birthday party the afternoon of Saturday, August 15 in his hometown of Lake Jackson, Texas. And you are invited!The Mises Institute is throwing the party for Paul. You can find out all the details...
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