Immigration and Big Government
If the Tea Parties and conservative activists want to be serious about opposing big government, they need to abandon their love of border police, immigration controls and statist nationalism. The hysterical response to those on the left comparing the Arizona law to Nazism reminds me of the equally hysterical response to those on the right [...]
Fail Safe
Many of today’s debates between statists and libertarians are argued on the grounds of efficiency. The libertarians say that when you let the government do something, you invariably get the DMV or the post office. Statists argue that a centralized public service provides better results because it can gain efficiencies of scale and because the [...]
Miss Oklahoma’s simple declarative sentence
There are three issues in the Arizona situation. In order of importance they are: a state’s right to act without permission from the federal government, chronic federal incompetence and mismanagement and the third: Is the controversial Arizona plan a good and workable solution for controlling the border? I was struck by the clarity of Morgan [...]
The 1099 Tsunami
Yet another piece of the Obamacare monstrosity. Gary North writes: Earlier this year, some staffer in some office on Capitol Hill dutifully inserted a provision into the health insurance bill that will force businesses to file 1099 forms on every transaction with another business for over $600. Buy a $601 used car for your business? [...]
The Two Parts of Our Existence
The freedom of thought is pretty obvious to everyone since everyone’s thoughts are their own property and can’t be tampered with by anyone one but ourselves. This makes our thoughts an exclusive property that belongs to our being and this part of our being is incapable of being tampered with, controlled by, or beholden to [...]
Against Judicial Supremacy
Much has been made of the coalition of state attorneys-general suing the federal government over the constitutionality of the recently enacted health care bill. But while many of us are happy to see the state governments taking some form of action to preserve their powers and to protect the liberties of their citizens from federal [...]
Eight and Counting: Parnell Signs Alaska Firearms Freedom Act
Today, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell signed House Bill 186 (HB186), the Firearms Freedom Act. It passed the House by a vote of 32-7 and the Senate by a vote of 18-1. Alaska now joins Montana, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, Idaho, and Arizona as the eighth state to have passed the act into law. The [...]
Nullification – The Forgotten Check on the Federal Government
“In questions of powers, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson On May 20th, I gave a short talk to the Concerned Citizens of Upper Perkiomen Valley for Smaller Government on the concept of nullification. Nullification is [...]
Health Care Freedom Act Goes to Voters in Oklahoma
This fall, Oklahoma voters will decide if they want federal law to force them to buy health insurance, as Senate Joint Resolution 59 (SJR59) was passed by both State houses and enrolled today. The legislation states that “A law or rule shall not compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer or health care provider to [...]
Dan Itse on ObamaCare
Are federal laws necessarily Constitutional by mere virtue of their passage? Was Congress really intended to be the arbiter of its own authority? Here by special request of the orator, Rep Dan Itse addresses the NH House of Representatives, 5/13/2010, on an amendment to SB455 which would opt NH out of the Constitutionally unauthorized nationalized [...]
Why I Wrote “Freedom For A Change”
During the U.S. Presidential campaigns of 2008, I endeavored to write a book about Freedom. I was literally compelled to do so with the most motivated passion and necessity. Why? Because I saw how the wall of separation between Slavery and Freedom has crumbled and has not withstood the ambitions of tyrants or the ignorance [...]
Randy Brogdon: Obamacare Opt-Out
cross-posted from the Oklahoma Tenth Amendment Center
Salt Restrictions are Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Browsing the news recently, I came across this article : http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591285,00.html Anyone who has been paying attention for the last few years had to expect that once the government is responsible for paying your health care costs, your lifestyle (in all respects that affect your health) becomes a public affair. That’s the rub. I tried [...]
Civil Commitments: Necessary and Proper?
Las Monday the Supreme Court in United States v. Comstock, held that Congress has the power under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to enact 18 U.S.C. § 4248. Section 4248 authorizes court-ordered civil commitment by the federal government of two categories of “sexually dangerous” persons: (1) “sexually [...]
Don’t Hedge Against Government Inflation
You may watch or listen to Glenn Beck and know that Goldline International is a sponsor. Like every other gold seller, the company is trying to profit from the disastrous, inflationary policies of the US government. For those of us in the know – aren’t we all trying to do the same? A New York [...]
The Hysteria over the Civil Rights Act
In light of the hysteria in recent days, here’s some valuable information from Thomas Sowell, from his indispensable book <em>Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? Sowell notes that champions of the Official Version of History ignore already existing trends in black employment, well under way long before the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, [...]
The People’s Action speaks Loudly
The People have surely made their actions known in the recent primary elections. A 30 year career party switching politician from Pennsylvania was dumped, a Republican party establishment figure and Secretary of State from Kentucky was trounced …beaten badly by a TEA party advocate Although this surely is a good sign, we still have a [...]
New Book Coming: Smear Artists Ready
My new book, Nullification, is coming June 29. Wait until you see the cover design. The design people are brilliant. The smears that will be hurled my way are entirely predictable. No one is allowed to adopt, much less advocate, an unapproved opinion, especially one directed at the heart of the regime, and anyone doing [...]
Supreme Court of the United States or The World?
The United States Supreme Court leftists have once again decided to crush the Constitution and the 10th Amendment by striking down a juvenile sentencing law simply because they don’t like it personally and–the most outrageous reason–because they cited the fact that other countries have long since abandoned this practice. And this despite the fact that [...]
Doing D.C.
If you’re one of the unfortunate Americans that live in fly-over country, I have bad news for you. Our nation’s capitol is now pretty much off-limits to you. Last week I had business in Washington, D.C. and planned a few extra days to re-acquaint myself with our nation’s history. It turned out to be the [...]
Heading for a Cliff
Catastrophe is dead ahead, and it is clear to see – so why are we not stepping on the brakes? I think the November election will be a small “pump” of the brake but will that be enough? Our kid’s future is being spent on bailing out unionized, entitled Greek workers, who need to cut [...]
Have the Neo-Con Right and Socialist Left Awakened a Sleeping Giant?
It has been said that future struggles will not be between left and right, but rather between fundamentalist-extremists and moderates. If that is true, a new poll published by the Pew Research Center would indicate that the fundamentalists within American governance have severely overplayed their hand. People inclined to moderate viewpoints are just that- moderate [...]
Notice and Demand to the Federal Government
Senator Jim Lembke presented Senate Concurrent Resolution 34, the Tenth Amendment Resolution, on the Missouri Senate Floor, and passed 26-6. It currently waits in the Missouri House rules committee. SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 34 WHEREAS, in the American system, sovereignty is defined as final authority, and the people, not government, are sovereign; and WHEREAS, the [...]
