Texas and the EPA
Texas vs. EPA update: At this moment, the State of Texas is clashing with the EPA over the EPA’s arbitrary and unconstitutional changes to the Clean Air Act. (The EPA seems to have forgotten that Congress, not a department of the executive branch, writes our laws.) The whole story is here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/25/texas-fights-global-warming-power-grab/?page=1 Texas Attorney General [...]
Yarmuth stumbles into the truth
Every line of thought moves toward a logical conclusion. But few ever carry their thinking far enough to grasp the ultimate ramifications of their ideas. In a recent radio interview, Congressman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) inadvertently walked right up to the edge of the cliff waiting for those who hold to the progressive notion of a [...]
10th Amendment Introduction
Michigan First District Congressional Candidate, Glenn Wilson’s introduction at the Candidate Tenth Amendment Meeting held by The Northern Michigan Liberty Alliance in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan.
The War We Should Have Never Had
Immediately following the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush seemed eager to attack Iraq instead of Afghanistan. After all, Afghanistan was the home of al Qaeda, the organization credited with the travesty. Something smelled bad. Every night we seemed closer to attacking Iraq, and the media was clearly an accomplice. Both parties became “sheeple” in support. [...]
Obama’s Dubious Purchase of the Free Market
When people respond to the claim that Obama is not friendly to “business” they normally start with something like… ‘How can you say that? He (Obama) bailed out the banks, the auto makers and the insurance companies!’ If you claim he is anti-small business, they will point to one of the dozens of tax credits [...]
“Small Is Beautiful” Guy Hearts Fed
Here’s a reply I just wrote to an email asking me where a certain person got the idea that the economy was in recession 40% of the time in the nineteenth century. I am calling the person X, because he’s about the most uncharitable (and uncomprehending) antagonist I’ve ever faced — yes, even a genial [...]
Candidates advocate for state and local control
Two Kentucky candidates recently made Tenth Amendment friendly statements. While Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Jack Conway continued to press the issue of rampant drug problems in Eastern Kentucky, saying his Republican opponent doesn’t get it and vocally advocating for federal funds, Rand Paul stuck to his guns, reiterating that he opposes federal funding for [...]
Video: The Liberty Tree
h/t Pennsylvania Tenth Amendment center
Visiting (Radical) Wisconsin
Wisconsin is the state that most defiantly nullified the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (as I discuss in Nullification), quoting the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and 1799 in its defense; today it’s the headquarters of the Bring the Guard Home movement. Wisconsin Public Radio interviewed me for an hour about Meltdown and for another hour about Nullification, and I [...]
Passing the Baton
We’ve got some exciting plans here in Utah for how to reassert and reinforce the 10th amendment, and are looking forward to expanding our volunteer base and organizational structure to make that happen. With the excellent foundation that Gary Wood has laid so far as State Coordinator, starting today I’ll now be filling that role [...]
Charles Key on Oklahoma Sovereignty
We’re pleased to announce that Oklahoma State Rep Charles Key, author of many sovereignty-related bills in his state, will be joining us as a featured speaker at Nullify Now! in Fort Worth on September 4th. Get tickets by calling 888-71-TICKETS, or click here to reserve them online. The following video is a 2009 interview with [...]
Do we want representatives pulled into line?
According to Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) those members of his faction , the Democratic Party, most likely to be defeated in 2010 are the very members difficult to pull into party line. As reported in a recent article in The Hill Waxman was very clear on why he believes many will lose their seat in [...]
Will Hillary kill us all?
The list of federalist incompetencies is spiraling the country down the drain: Health care, Medicare, a broken dollar, a 13 trillion dollar deficit, Katrina, Arizona, Afghanistan, Blagojevich. The turning began when Bill Clinton turned a prefect failure of a presidency into a cult movement of himself by having kinky sex with an undergraduate in the [...]
Abolish the TSA
This latest outrage just reminds us of the folly of government airline security. Supposedly there to protect us against terrorists, the TSA works with police and law enforcement agencies when it detects behavior it deems suspicious—which in many cases can lead to crackdowns on victimless crimes or invasions into the private lives of travelers. Kathy [...]
FCC Town Hall Hearing in Minneapolis
On Thursday, August 19th, 2010, a town hall meeting was held in Minneapolis and involved FCC commissioners Cobbs and Clyburn along with Minnesota Senator Al Franken, who had to leave early because his mother-in-law was in town.:) Senator Franken and the FCC commissioners spoke about how important it would be to install more government regulation. This [...]
Freedom isn’t Free. Especially when the IRS is involved.
This morning, I was asked by one of our state coordinators about the legal status of the TAC – why are we organized as a for-profit business rather than a 501c3 or c4 non-profit? Here’s the bulk of my response: This is more of a philosophical issue for us than a functional one. Our goal [...]
Jim Babka, Michael Boldin talk Nullification
Jim Babka, president of DownsizeDC.org, interviews Michael Boldin about nullification and the Nullify Now! tour, launching in September. Get tickets to Nullify Now! in Ft Worth, Orlando, Chattanooga, Phoenix, and Los Angeles – click here. “When a state passes a law to nullify an unconstitutional federal act, regulation…or mandate….this is not rebellion. It’s duty.”
Nullification in Florida!
Andrew Nappi, state chapter coordinator of the Florida Tenth Amendment Center, interviewed by DeskofBrian at C4L’s Florida Liberty Summit – Aug 13-15. Topics? Florida Tenth Amendment Center, Nullification, and Nullify Now! on 10-10-10 “In its simplest form, nullification is the rejection of unconstitutional legislation.”
History the Schools Left Out
Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled. The Depression is supposed [...]
Gay Rights or States’ Rights?
When a federal judge overturned California’s ban on gay marriage, this supposed “victory” was in reality a defeat for the Constitution.
So I Am Losing My Liberty! What Can I Do About It?
For those of us who have been awakened to the onslaught of government control in our lives, a feeling of helplessness often pervades. We simply do not know what to do after recognizing the danger. Here I present seven critical steps that you can take in the process of regaining freedom. The first step is becoming [...]
Obama Has Solidified the Bush Police State
On virtually all the major civil liberties issues of the Bush era, the Obama administration has followed its predecessor’s example. Detention without trial has continued. Torturers will not be investigated. Warrantless surveillance of the citizenry goes on uninterrupted. What’s more, by vindicating these policies as a left-liberal Democrat, Obama has solidified them in American political [...]
Has Congress Become Useless?
Gene Healy writes: Has Congress become “a useless appendix on the governmental structure”? That was what then-Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., feared in 1968, according to newly released transcripts from the committee’s closed-session debates over Vietnam. Unless Congress was willing to assert itself on the war, he said, “I do [...]
