Archive | October, 2009
Looking to the Inside

Looking to the Inside

Are You Finally Ready To Trust Your Conscience?
Most politicians are not bad people, but the system has a way of chewing them up and spitting them out. Once in the system, they learn to play the game and almost always compromise their integrity when it can be justified and even sometimes when it cannot. This [...]

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A Look at the Heritage Guide to the U.S. Constitution

A Look at the Heritage Guide to the U.S. Constitution

Here is my latest book review from THE NEW AMERICAN.
The Federalist Society has compiled a “Conservative & Libertarian Legal Scholarship: Annotated Bibliography” to collect what they deem to be the best legal analysis of every aspect of American law. Their recommended reading for constitutional law contains the following advice: “The Heritage Foundation has published a [...]

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Exciting Things Are Happening In Virginia

Exciting Things Are Happening In Virginia

Last night I spoke at a gathering of activists hosted by FreedomWorks in Richmond, VA. The crowd was impressive, more than 130 people on a Thursday night were packed into the basement of a bar in Shockoe Bottom.
They weren’t there to see me of course, former House majority leader, Dick Armey, was the headliner. But [...]

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Ignorant Politicians

Ignorant Politicians

Seems redundant, doesn’t it? But as far as the Constitution goes, that’s just what we have in D.C. – on both sides of the political aisle. At least some of the politicos are having to pay some lip service to Constitutionality these days, as seen in this recent article in the Washington [...]

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A States’ Rights Governor in Georgia

A States’ Rights Governor in Georgia

Ray McBerry is running for Governor of Georgia solely on a 10th Amendment platform – here’s his first TV ad:
Find more videos like this on GeorgiaFirst.Org

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Limiting Power is Racist?

Limiting Power is Racist?

That’s what opponents of the Constitution would like you to believe – if you oppose massive government expansion, you must be some out-of-control racist nutcase.
Like in this video:

Josh Eboch has written a number of good articles on this particular election race of late:
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/10/27/the-left-vs-the-tenthers-on-getting-states-rights-wrong/
http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/10/virginia-progressives-are-getting-nervous/
http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/10/virginias-ken-cuccinelli-will-be-a-much-needed-friend-of-the-tenth-amendment/

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Liars, Thieves, Kidnappers, and Murderers

Liars, Thieves, Kidnappers, and Murderers

No, I am not referring to some mafia family, I am referring to your federal government. There are a lot of similarities between between those in charge in Washington DC, compared with the worst mafias in history.
There are several enterprises that any mafia partakes in; drug trafficking, arms trafficking, loan sharking, control of contracting, and [...]

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Three Crimes, and Three Crimes Only

Three Crimes, and Three Crimes Only

The Constitution specifies only three federal crimes-treason, piracy, and counterfeiting. So whether you think performing OR preventing an abortion is a crime – it’s still something that the federal government is not authorized to deal with.
State Constitutions in California, Connecticut and elsewhere have a greater protection for the ability to have an abortion than [...]

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Popular Obamacare Analogies

Popular Obamacare Analogies

Obama supporters come in all shapes and sizes, but none more socially powerful than the iconic Oprah Winfrey.  Last week Oprah did a segment on Denmark, perhaps in a bid to pump up support for Obamacare.
The people of Denmark are said to have some of the highest numbers recorded in terms of citizen satisfaction polls, [...]

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