Will Paul Ryan Be Booted from the House Speakership after the Election?

Posted on by November 7, 2016

On October, 29, 2015, just over one year ago, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) became speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) had announced about a month earlier his resignation from the House after House members had become increasingly vocal in their disapproval of Boehner’s leadership and momentum had built significantly towards Boehner’s ouster from the speaker position.

May Ryan soon face a rebellion much like the one his predecessor faced? This possibility is suggested in Matt Fuller’s Friday Huffington Post article that draws much from an interview with Thomas Massie, a Republican House member from Kentucky who is also an advisory board member of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.

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Five Minutes Five Issues: Marijuana Votes, Proposition 63, Drug Pleas, White Privilege, Pirate Party

Posted on by November 5, 2016

A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Saturday. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud.

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Bill Weld is Hillary Clinton’s Libertarian Party Surrogate

Posted on by November 3, 2016

It is common in presidential campaigns for surrogates to speak at events or take part in media interviews where they vouch for a presidential candidate. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has many such surrogates, including her former presidential primary opponent Bernie Sanders, her husband and former United States President Bill Clinton, and First Lady Michelle Obama. Hillary Clinton’s campaign, as is typical of presidential campaigns, also uses Clinton’s vice presidential running mate Tim Kaine as a surrogate. What is unusual is that Bill Weld, the vice presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party, has also joined the ranks of Clinton surrogates.

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A Pardon for Hillary Clinton

Posted on by October 31, 2016

Things are looking dicey again for Hillary Clinton, with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James B. Comey having informed members of the United States Congress on Friday that the FBI is reopening its investigation of the former Secretary of State for mishandling classified information. This decision, Comey explained via a letter, is due to the discovery of new emails “that appear to be pertinent to the investigation.” Yet, no matter what the FBI may uncover, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst and former New Jersey state Judge Andrew Napolitano said in a Fox Business interview with host Stuart Varney on Monday that Clinton may be able to avoid prosecution.

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Five Minutes Five Issues: Trump Anti-Semitism, PATRIOT Act, Sheldon Adelson, Bill Weld, DEA Spending

Posted on by October 28, 2016

A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Friday. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud.

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Five Minutes Five Issues: Where’s Mosul, Mosul Attack, Norway Marines, Facial Recognition, Kerry’s Bombs

Posted on by October 23, 2016

A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Saturday. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud.

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Lew Rockwell Says Listen to George Washington, Not Obama and Clinton, on Fear of Russia

Posted on by October 23, 2016

Lew Rockwell commented this week, as a guest at RT, on the effort by President Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and others to stir in Americans a fear of Russia. Likening the effort to an effort made during the cold war to stir in Americans a fear of the Soviet Union, Rockwell, who is the chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and publisher of lewrockwell.com, urges individuals to look instead to the advice of President George Washington.

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My New Interview on the Lions of Liberty Podcast

Posted on by October 19, 2016

My new interview on the Lions of Liberty Podcast with host Marc Clair posted today. In the interview, Clair and I discuss a number of matters including the 2016 presidential race, the drug war, foreign intervention, and the prohibiting of people listed on the United States government’s so-called terror watch list from buying guns. Clair and I also talk about some of the reasons for optimism about respect for liberty in America that I focus on in my new book A Tipping Point for Liberty: Exposing and Defeating Leviathan Government.

Listen to the complete interview here.

I am very happy to hear Clair, in his closing comments after the interview, call me “the great Adam Dick of the Ron Paul Institute” and say that I am one of his “favorite writers to read on a regular basis.” It means much to receive this praise from Clair who is a great interviewer for a podcast that is always interesting and informative.

Dennis Kucinich: FBI Investigation of Hillary Clinton Was Fixed in Her Favor

Posted on by October 18, 2016

Speaking Monday on Fox News with host Neil Cavuto, former Democratic presidential candidate and United States House of Representatives Member from Ohio Dennis Kucinich opined that, from early on, the US government’s investigation of Hillary Clinton for mishandling confidential information while she was Secretary of State was fixed in her favor.

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Laurence M. Vance Reviews A Tipping Point for Liberty

Posted on by October 14, 2016

The New American published on its website Thursday a review of my new book A Tipping Point for Liberty: Exposing and Defeating Leviathan Government. The review, written by Laurence M. Vance, provides a detailed introduction to the book.

Vance concludes his review of A Tipping Point for Liberty with the following praise:

America is indeed at a tipping point. I agree with Ron Paul’s conclusion in the book’s foreword that A Tipping Point for Liberty ‘is an important tool for spreading the education needed to ensure we can move onward to a world of liberty, peace, and prosperity.’

I am happy to see my new book receive such praise from Vance, whose insightful articles I regularly read at websites including lewrockwell.com.

Read the complete review here.

Reprinted with permission from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.