Best Read This Year
I ran a website traffic report this morning, and put together a list of what articles have been the most-read on the site this year. I hope to do some monthly updates like this in the near future. Interesting, to say the least! 1. The FDA vs Raw Milk and the Constitution – by Mike [...]
Nullification makes a comeback—and not just on the Right.
This article by Jeff Taylor, which recently appeared in The American Conservative, is one of the most well written articles on the subject of nullification I have come across in a while. Although I was a little disappointed that he failed to use Arizona’s Health Care Freedom Amendment, (which will be voted on by the [...]
They Will Never Pay Off This Government Debt
From an article by Vin Suprynowicz: If I invoke the phrase “Greek debt crisis,” do your eyelids start to grow heavy? Do you somehow find it difficult to summon up a fresh wave of outrage if someone mentions that when Barack Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (better known as the Democratic Tax-Hike [...]
Standoff in Hawaii: Census Taker Arrested
From the Hawaii Tribune-Herald: A battle is brewing between the state and federal governments over a Census taker arrested in Puna for misdemeanor trespassing. The U.S. Attorney’s office filed papers Thursday in federal court in Honolulu to take the case of 57-year-old Russell Haas out of Hilo District Court. That will pit the feds against [...]
TN Health Care Freedom Act Resurrected
In a ninth inning push to protect Tennesseans from the penalty provisions of Obamacare, the state Senate made an unprecedented move to recall from committee SB2560, the companion bill to Rep. Susan Lynn’s Health Care Freedom Act (HB2622). If passed, HB2622 will write into law a policy statement for all Tennesseans that health care mandates [...]
Nullify the Feds!
Tom Woods’ very important new book is available for preorder on Amazon. Let’s make it #1 before the publication date. Here is the jacket copy: Unconstitutional laws are pouring out of Washington…but we can stop them. Just ask Thomas Jefferson. There is a “rightful remedy” to federal power grabs—it’s called Nullification. In Nullification: How to [...]
Our Covenant
Few decisions are more serious than the decision to send our nation’s young men and women off to kill and be killed in the name of our country. Since it is the everyday people whose sons and daughters are sent off to war, our nation’s founding fathers made sure that the power to make war [...]
A Very Good Explaination Of Natural Rights
The only exception I would make to what he says is that you do not have to be a Libertarian to believe in the vision of the Constitution, you can be of any political stripe as long as you restrain your vision of things not enumerated to the federal govt. to your own state where [...]
Nullification Available for Pre-Order
My latest book, Nullification, is now available for pre-order. Please help me spread the word about it! Here are a few endorsements: “This book is a must read for all who cherish liberty. During these times that challenge our freedoms there is no one more qualified to make U.S. history relevant to the fight against big government [...]
New Grassroots Organization: WE TEXANS!
cross-posted from the Texas Tenth Amendment Center I thought the following invitation was worth sharing. Looks like a promising new grassroots group that likely will have a strong 10th amendment focus! —————————————————————————————— The battle for private property ownership and state sovereignty continues in Texas! I hope you will join me for the official launch party [...]
Top Books from May
The following are the top-5 books purchased at Amazon.com through the Tenth Amendment Center (which, by the way, gives us a small commission for each sale. So thank you for supporting us with your purchases!) 1. Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century by Thomas E. Woods 2. The Original Constitution by [...]
Resisting the Fugitive Slave Act
Whenever the mainstream media finally decides it can’t ignore the efforts of today’s “Tenthers” to use the tools of state level nullification and interposition, their attempts to associate them with slavery, Jim Crow and segregation are as predictable as the sun rising in the East. The fact is that nullification and interposition were never used [...]
We’re Talking; They’re Doing; So Who is Winning?
I listen to outraged radio and television talk show hosts, clearly arguing against what is happening with the out of control federal government, sometimes getting heated to the point of obvious frustration, meanwhile Obama and the enemy within are passing legislation and borrowing more money than we can ever pay back. The left and their [...]
Zach Wamp, Physical Education, and the Constitution
Rep. Zach Wamp has been campaigning on state sovereignty, the Tenth Amendment, and “meeting the feds at the border” when they overstep their constitutional bounds. Yet again, Rep. Wamp’s actions speak louder than words, as in the same breath as he is talking state sovereignty he also brags about legislation that he co-authored which introduces [...]
The EPA can go to Hell, and I will go to Texas
Last week, the feds sent the Environmental Protection Agency out to harass the sovereign state of Texas. Texas needs to reclaim the spirit of Davy Crockett, when he famously proclaimed “you may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas”; and send the federal agency packing. Here’s why and how. EPA’s Goal is [...]
Why I Care About the Constitution
The debates that one sees in the comments sections and forums these days is a fascinating mix. Everyone in DC sat down in a new chair 2 years ago and so it’s easy to get the sense that our political world is in flux, with progressives bashing Obama and conservatives nodding their heads at the [...]
Disposing the Doctrine of Judicial Supremacy
In addition to Robert Nagel’s column on rejecting judicial remedies for our political disagreements (posted earlier on the Tenther blog), National Review Online has also treated us to two columns by Prof. Robert Lowry Clinton. The first, “Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution,” disposes of the doctrine of judicial supremacy by looking at the Supreme Court’s [...]
