State measures quickly crafted as end runs around legislation
Mimi Hall reports on state-level resistance to national health care in the USA Today: In a backlash against President Obama’s health care legislation that stretches from Virginia to California, lawmakers in more than two-thirds of the states are scrambling to undercut the bill before it even passes Congress. Earlier this month, Virginia became the first [...]
Good News: Taxes Are Voluntary
And you thought you had to pay them? Ridiculous! Senator Harry Reid says, “the government doesn’t force you to pay taxes.” Reid says that he “doesn’t accept the phraseology” that the government “forcefully takes money from you.” Really, I am not joking. Oh … and he says that the reason our system is called a [...]
Action Item: Movement on 4 Important Bills in Tennessee
The Tennessee General Assembly will be taking action on four important bills this week. These bills cover a wide range of issues, including health care, greenhouse gas regulation, Real ID, and firearms. It is critical to contact state legislators as soon as possible to express support for these bills. SB3177/HB2417 – Health Care Choice Act [...]
Tenth Amendment vs Healthcare
While attending a recent “Town Hall” meeting with my congressional representative I was offered the opportunity to ask the following question: Where in the Constitution does it authorize the federal government to regulate HEALTHCARE? The answer that I received, which is also the correct one…IT DOES NOT. Perhaps if people nationwide would ask their respective [...]
Entitlements
The Federal Government keeps its books in a way that would send any private business to jail. In the near future, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare are going to be consuming much more in resources than the taxes collected to service the programs. The current national debt is $12.46 trillion, (I would put all the [...]
Comments on 10th Amendment legislation miss the point
Yesterday there was an article in the Desert News about this year’s legislative session, Carl Wimmer, and the Patrick Henry Caucus has some fair insights. There is even a comment by the House Minority Assistant Whip (can these titles of nobility get any more stretched?) Carol Moss (D – Holladay) that was right on the [...]
SD Governor Rounds Signs Firearms Freedom Act into Law
The South Dakota Legislature recently passed SB 89 which declares “exempt from federal regulation any firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured and retained in South Dakota.” Now, a little more than a week later, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds has signed the bill into law. The bill is the latest of many crafted in states [...]
Smearing Oath Keepers
Mother Jones and The New York Times have published substance-free attack pieces on the constitutionalist organization Oath Keepers (OK). And what are Oath Keepers guilty of? Vowing that they will refuse to violate Civil Liberties! Check out their 10 orders they won’t follow. The only one I could see the left getting upset about is [...]
Dr Dan at the Tenth Amendment Summit
Dr. Dan Eichenbaum, congressional candidate in North Carolina’s 11th District speaking at the 1st Annual 10th Amendment Summit held in Atlanta, GA on Feb 25 & 26 2010.
Firearms Freedom Spreading
The Tenth Amendment movement sweeping across the nation has made its way to the Beehive State. The Utah-Made Firearm Act states that all firearms, firearm accessories, and “ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in the state to be used or sold within the state [of Utah] is not subject to federal law or federal [...]
Papers Please! National ID will be a part of “immigration reform”
It looks like another hot button issue will be coming to the forefront of American politics this year as the Senate is planning on tackling immigration. You may recall that President George W. Bush tried to tackle this issue with the Democratic-controlled Congress in 2007. The proposal, sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. [...]
Florida’s Road Back to Sovereignty may have some detours
Once upon at time, the following declaration came out of our state capitol. Ordinance of Secession. We, the People of the State of Florida in Convention assembled, do solemnly ordain, publish and declare: That the State of Florida hereby withdraws herself from the Confederacy of States existing under the name of the United States of [...]
Compounding Liberty
What is the purpose of a state government? Historically, and even in modern times, countries with states or provinces we’re ruled by a strong central government. Any rules that were passed by the central government applied to each state. So, do we really need states? The Founders intended to make American states completely different than [...]
Ron Paul 2012?
Here I figured out a way to ask this question that he couldn’t answer with “it’s too early to say….” cross-posted from the LewRockwell.com Blog
NH House Votes to Decriminalize Marijuana
From the Boston Globe: New Hampshire’s House voted Wednesday to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults, but the victory was followed immediately by the governor’s pledge to veto the bill adults to possess one-quarter ounce or less of the substance It also would decriminalize transporting less than one- quarter ounce of the [...]
Oklahoma One Step Closer to Firearms Freedom
Yesterday, the Oklahoma House passed House Bill 2994 (HB2994), the Firearms Freedom Act. The vote tally was 89-3. The bill states: A personal firearm, a firearm action or receiver, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in the state to be used or sold within the state is not subject to [...]
The Constitutional Case Against The Federal Sports Gambling Ban
The Federal ban on sports betting has been blasted by anyone who knows anything about the subject for a number of different reasons. Though the US professional leagues suggest that sports betting threatens the integrity of their games, the opposite is the case. This is important because there would still be no shortage of outlets [...]
State Government vs. Federal Government Radio Show
The Steel on Steel radio show, hosted by John Loeffler, this weekend was focused on state vs. federal governments. I was interviewed for the show for the 10th Amendment segment. To listen to the interview click the player embedded in this post. There were many good areas on this show so the entire broadcast is [...]
Idaho House Passes Firearms Freedom Act
Today, the Idaho House passed House Bill 589 (HB589), the Firearms Freedom Act. The vote as 52-17. The bill, which now moves to the Senate, seeks to declare guns or ammunition manufactured and sold in Idaho to be exempt from all federal laws and regulation, including registration requirements – as claimed by D.C. under the [...]
Reclaiming the Commerce Clause in Virginia
For decades, using a tortured definition of interstate commerce, Congress has tried to regulate everything, from wheat grown on an individual’s own land for personal consumption, to weed grown in an individual’s own home for the same purpose. Unfortunately (with some notable dissenters aside), the Supreme Court has largely condoned and encouraged such reprehensible legislative [...]
Liberty Is On The March. Is Florida Out of Step?
Excerpt From John Tate’s Campaign for Liberty Newletter “Congressman Ron Paul’s incredible straw poll victory at CPAC (with, I’ve been told, the most support of any straw poll victor in the Conference’s history) sent a clear message to the establishment that not only are we more energized and passionate than ever, but we are organized [...]
Safeguard Wisconsin’s Guard from needless deployment
by Ben Manski and Jim Draeger For the first time in recent history, citizens of Wisconsin have the opportunity to help answer the question “Who decides about war?” As part of a national movement of nearly two dozen states, on Tuesday, March 9, at 1 p.m. at the State Capitol in Madison, the Veterans and [...]
Action Alert: TN Sovereignty Bills in Committee
The Industrial Impact Subcommittee of the House Commerce Committee is attempting to prevent legislation introduced by Rep. Susan Lynn from making their way to the House floor. Four pieces of legislation introduced by Lynn have been deferred to the subcommittee’s to the last calendar meeting. According to a letter sent to a Tennessee Tenth Amendment [...]
American Thinker’s Curious Coverage of Nullification
J. Robert Smith writes A Curious Dalliance with Nullification at American Thinker today. By using three citations from a single page in a single book, he determines that the idea of nullification is mistaken and that those of us who support nullification as a remedy to federal overreach are misguided. Here are the the article [...]
