Regional Fed Bank Presidents Blocking Transparency
State Representative Paul Opsommer (R-DeWitt) criticized regional Fed bank presidents for their testimony on Capitol Hill yesterday, saying their efforts to block inquiry into Wall Street bailout details continue to stymie needed financial reforms. “We continue to see strong bi-partisan efforts to audit the Fed at both the state and federal level that is being [...]
Bypassing Posse Comitatus
David Franke writes: An executive order signed by President Clinton and used by President George W. Bush purportedly allows U.S. Special Forces to bypass the Posse Comitatus Act. We have to say “purportedly” because—of course—key parts of the executive order are classified. Scahill asks the natural followup question: “To what extent are U.S. Special Forces [...]
Is winning a principle or the result of following your principles?
The republican choir keeps getting louder on the subject of “winning” in November. The fear of third party candidates, independent candidates, and rival republican candidates are getting the inside pundits nervous. Well, they should be. But what they don’t understand is that people are looking for principled candidate’s period. They have seen what happens even [...]
TN Action Items: Update for the Week of May 10
Last week, the legislation working its way through the Tennessee General Assembly and Governor’s office took a back seat to the disastrous flooding that occurred in Nashville and Middle Tennessee. If you would like to help your fellow Tennesseans as they work to get back on their feet, WKRN in Nashville has compiled a list [...]
Fear of the Federal Government is not radical it is American
Our education “system” is broken. When the main stream media can get away with making the argument that it is “dangerous” to stir the people up to fear their government, which may lead to violence, shows their ignorance of our history and founding. Our founders were skeptical and inherently suspicious of centralized power. The creation [...]
Earmarkers vs. Bureaucrats: Taxpayers Lose Either Way
One of the justifications members of Congress offer for earmarking is that the Constitution gives the legislative branch the “power of the purse.” Congressional earmarkers often denigrate the executive branch’s inability to effectively allocate funds. But just because the federal bureaucracy does an abysmal job of spending taxpayer money, it doesn’t mean lawmakers would do [...]
Sovereignty Resolution Introduced in NYS Senate
New York State Senator Michael Nozzolio (R-54th District) has informed me just today that he has drafted and introduced J4716, a resolution to “Re-Establish our State’s Sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment.” See http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/J4716 According to the introductory text this Legislative Resolution, affirms, “the sovereignty of the of the people of the State of New York [...]
Missouri Joins Health Care Battle
Senator Jane Cunningham’s Health Care Freedom Act (SJR25), nearly identical to Virginia’s, passed the Missouri Senate as a ballot referendum Tues. by a 26-8 vote. Three Dems., two up for reelection in conservative districts, crossed over to vote in favor. The legislation provides: “that no federal law shall compel a patient, employer, or health care [...]
Sounds Good…
But will they take this same kind of position when a republican is in the White House? The Republican track record is awful.
“General Welfare” Does Not Include National Healthcare
Some good insight from Dr. Harold Pease of CA-TAC: here are many less well-known facts to keep in mind as you review Section 8. Convention delegates curiously placed every power in one sentence with 18 paragraphs. This strange construction was to make it even more difficult for future power grabbers to isolate and enhance a [...]
The Audacity of Illegals and Federals
For generations, the federal government has pissed on the integrity of the union, supposedly formed by the bonds of choice, reflection, friendship and likeness. It has treated the people of the States as scoopers in the valley of the crap they roll down hill, of which they claim to be king. The society of each [...]
Free and Total Reign Over the States? Absolutely Not!
“The US are sovereign on their side of the line dividing jurisdictions, the States on the other. Each ought to have the power to demand their respective sovereignties.” Andrew Nappi, Florida State Coordinator of the Tenth Amendment Center speaking on the 10th Amendment, State Sovereignty, the Founders and Nullification, on April 17th, 2010.
More constitutional questions about Obamacare
From the DailyCaller: A just-released memo from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) raises fresh constitutional concerns about a provision in President Obama’s health-care law that could impose tens of millions of dollars in fines on Congress, state and local governments. …The new memo from Congress’s research arm states that state and local governments would be [...]
Constitution Where Art Thou?
I can already hear everyone I know bitching at me about this blog post. This will, to me, prove who really stands for liberty and who is ready to sell out the Constitution when it suits their needs. The phrases like “don’t tread on me” and “give me liberty or give me death” can only [...]
Oklahoma Passes Health Care Freedom Act, Heads to Governor
OKLAHOMA CITY – In a move Sen. Randy Brogdon said was designed to protect the sovereignty of Oklahoma, the full Senate gave its approval Tuesday to House Joint Resolution 1054. The “Freedom of Healthcare Choice Act” is authored by Sen. Randy Brogdon R-Owasso, Rep. Mike Ritze, R-Broken Arrow, and Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City. “This [...]
We need to reclaim the Constitution from the Supreme Court
Dr. Robert Lowry Clinton has a fantastic article in the National Review this week. (h/t Mike Rogers) Here’s an excerpt: Many Americans are puzzled and angry about the judicial assault on religion, morality, and common sense that has been going on for the past few decades. People wonder, for example, how the First Amendment (which [...]
Health Care Freedom in Colorado?
Last Thursday morning, Amy Oliver who is a talk show host on am 1310 KFKA was gracious enough to have me on to talk about the Constitution, the Health care mandate, and the Health Freedom Rally that was held in Greeley on Friday night. The rally was well attended and the speakers did a great [...]
Sovereignty of the State
The just closed session of the Florida Legislature struck a resounding blow for state sovereignty with the passage of the Florida Health Care Freedom Act. ( You can read the text HERE) The challenge to all of us now is to work to make sure when this initiative appears on the ballot, 60% of the [...]
Your Organs Belong to the State
The Wall Street Journal published this story about a kidney donor and potential recipient. Dolly Carew met a willing kidney donor, Bob Randall, on matchingdonors.com, and eventually, the surgeries were set to take place at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. Then the hospital called both of them to tell them the surgery was being [...]
Lew Rockwell and Tom Woods on Resisting Tyranny
What a great honor to have Lew Rockwell and Tom Woods talking about the work here at the Tenth Amendment Center. Please stop by and listen to Lew’s latest podcast – talking with Tom about his upcoming book, Nullification.
That Lonesome Valley
When you’re opposing both sides of the unconstitutional political machine that is Washington D.C. – sometimes it feels pretty isolated. But thanks to all the great feedback and support we’ve gotten over the last few years from you, our readers and supporters, walking that lonesome valley becomes easier every day. Happy Birthday, Pete.
