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.
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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 “most important book” and “a fascinating piece of reading as well.” Rockwell proceeds to note that Swords into Plowshares is “so personal … almost like an autobiography in many senses” and that the book “just draws you in, and you can’t put it down.”
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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 further opines that there may be an additional cause of action against Sumner for punitively inflicting pain by handcuffing children around their upper arms.
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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 on Paul’s new book Swords into Plowshares: A Life in Wartime and a Future of Peace and Prosperity.
Paul states in the interview that he likes Switzerland’s “very successful national defense,” and adds “there is no reason that we can’t use that as a starting point.” Paul explains:
… all through the twentieth century — a century of carnage and killing and murdering in the European theater especially, they were never invaded. So they had a strong national defense, but of course it was under a completely different philosophy than what most other countries have…. if we are seeking peace and prosperity, we ought to move in that direction.
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Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis is characterizing Sandra Bland — who died last week in a jail in the Texas county — as being “very combative” and “not a model person” during the traffic stop that led to her arrest and incarceration. His disparaging assessment appears to be far from the truth.
Recently released dashboard camera video of Bland’s arrest shows that throughout her ordeal on a Texas roadway Bland behaved appropriately and much as would many other ordinary people in a similar situation. Bland’s response may even have been more muted than average considering the infuriating nonsense she had to deal with — an out-of-control cop pulling her over for changing lanes without using a turn signal and then proceeding, for no good reason, to force her out of her car, throw her to the ground, handcuff her, and send her off to jail.
Bland’s response to the police harassment and brutality is commendable. Unless you accept the police-state mindset that Mathis’ comments suggest, you can’t help but admire Bland boldly standing up to a cop who literally had the power of life and death in his hands on that Texas roadway.
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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 private information of Social Security recipients to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
Among the millions of people who may, as a result, be deprived of the ability to legally possess guns are, Zarembo notes, about 1.5 million Social Security recipients who “have their finances handled by others for a variety of reasons” and about 2.7 million people who receive Social Security disability payments due to mental health problems.
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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.
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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 and make your reservation (required for admission) here at the Mises Institute’s website. Admission is $20 per adult and, as explained on the Mises Institute’s website, covers “Texas BBQ, a country music band, birthday cake and the thrilling and moving occasion of a lifetime.” Admission is free for children and students.
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With President Barack Obama announcing Monday the commutation of the sentences of 46 US government prisoners, Reuters calculates that the president “has now commuted the sentences of 89 prisoners, the vast majority of whom were nonviolent drug offenders who applied for clemency under an initiative the White House began in April 2014.” The freeing of any drug war victims is reason for celebrations. Yet, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons 95,265 people (48.7% of all federal prison inmates) are in US government prisons for drug convictions. How about freeing them all?
As Obama indicated in his announcement of his newest round of commutations, drug law violations are nonviolent crimes. In addition, they are victimless crimes. With no violence and no victim in drug crimes, it is absurd for the US government to incarcerate a single person for a drug crime for even one more day.
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Jacob Hornberger, picture used with permission from the Future of Freedom Foundation
Back in 2001, I saw Jacob Hornberger speak at the Pennsylvania Libertarian Party’s state convention. I had learned much reading Hornberger’s articles at the Future of Freedom Foundation, of which Hornberger is the president and founder. Hornberger’s presentation, like his articles, was informative, insightful, engaging, and persuasive.
I returned home after the convention happy to have seen a maestro of libertarian communication in action. I have continued to follow Hornberger’s work since.
In June, I was honored to see Hornberger on FFF’s The Libertarian Angle complimenting my articles at the Ron Paul Institute. The topic of my writing came up at the end of Hornberger’s June 15 The Libertarian Angle interview with RPI Executive Director Daniel McAdams.
Here is the Hornberger and McAdams exchange regarding me:
Hornberger: In the time we have left, I do want to say a little bit about the work you guys do on civil liberties and privacy and the NSA, because we’re on the same page on that issue too. Give us your take on those issues, along with the drug war as well. We are all on the same page on that one too.
McAdams: Absolutely, well, my colleague Adam Dick—we worked together about ten years in Dr. Paul’s office, and Adam handled a lot of the civil liberties issues, some of them we worked together on—and so, thankfully, Adam is with us at the institute. And he does a lot of writing on the drug war, which he feels very strongly about. His background is as an attorney, so that gives a nice dimension to what he writes….
So it’s great to be able to continue working with someone that I worked with for so long—Dr. Paul and Adam Dick….
Hornberger: …And I agree with you about Adam’s work. I mean, I love his stuff. He’s got great pieces on financial privacy, about the bank structuring laws, the asset forfeiture. He’s doing fantastic and courageous stuff on that….
Watch the complete interview, and learn about the important work of FFF and RPI, here: