Live Free and Nullify
This article appears originally at LewRockwell.com- http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/gericke2.1.1.html Jury nullification plays a vital role in a healthy legal system. It allows people to vote their conscience and nullify bad laws, thus sending a strong message to legislators. This is how alcohol prohibition was overthrown. This is how marijuana prohibition will be overthrown. On April 13, 2011, a [...]
Shell Oil Succumbs To EPA Tyranny In Alaska. Is Texas Next?
Earlier this week, Shell Oil Company announced it must scrap efforts to drill for oil this summer in the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of Alaska. The decision comes following a ruling by the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board to withhold critical air permits. The move has angered some in Congress and triggered a flurry [...]
Hayek And The Czars.
Some things never get old. And that goes double for F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. Written in 1944, The Road is a compelling demonstration that collectivist central economic planning leads not to utopia but necessarily to tyranny. Hayek brilliantly illuminated the dangers of the Collectivists’ vaguely defined “social goals” and “common purpose”. The Obama presidential campaign elevated this vagueness [...]
Liberty over Convenience
After refusing a body scanner and enhanced pat down at Ontario California Airport, John Bush and Catherine Bleish decide to stand up for their rights and hop on a train! It was a pain in the butt and ended up costing more and being a real inconvenience but, Cat and John have resolved to no [...]
North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple Signs Obamacare Nullification Bill
from Rob Port at the SayAnything blog: Apparently deciding that the risk of angering his constituents over a failure to act against Obamacare was worse than angering his Attorney General, Wayne Stenehjem, who holds that the state cannot pass laws contradicting federal law, Governor Jack Dalrymple signed SB2309. (click here to read about the health [...]
Birth Certificate: Was It Trump or the States?
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate to the public. Various media outlets had widely differing views on why it was released after millions of dollars were spent to keep it hidden, in the same way that they differed before its release on whether it should be released, or if it [...]
Republican Socialists and Medicare Part D
EDITOR’S NOTE: Anthony Gregory will be a featured speaker at Nullify Now! Los Angeles. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/losangeles/ – or by calling 888-71-TICKETS There are many ways to determine whether a Republican is worth the least bit of support from advocates of limited government. One is to see what the person’s position was on [...]
Good vs Bad Progressives
I had a nice chat recently with Sibel Edmonds (who describes herself as leaning libertarian) and left-progressive Peter B. Collins. Entirely civil, and Collins was more than receptive to what I said (consistent with Roderick Long’s discussion about making inroads with the Left). But then there are the thought controllers, who would see the whole world burn down before [...]
Two Challenges
A challenge for big-government conservatives: find a constitutional justification (rationalization) for the federal “war on drugs” that doesn’t also allow it to outlaw growing your own food in your own back-yard garden or to regulate the temperature of your living room. A challenge for big-government liberals: find a constitutional justification (rationalization) for a federal takeover [...]
States Check the Federal Coinage Power
It seems that there are two sections in the constitution split between the federal and state governments – the power over currency. The federal government has the power to coin money and regulate the value of which seems to give it wide latitude over what it says a dollar is worth. Under this power, it [...]
Tenth Amendment Forum in D.C. – a mixed bag
A recent forum on federalism held on Capitol Hill served to highlight both the progress made and the challenges ahead in reigning in an overreaching federal behemoth, and restoring the proper balance of power between the state and federal governments. Close to 40 people gathered in a committee room inside the Longworth House Office Building [...]
Nullification and the Thought Controllers
I spoke to Judge Napolitano about Nullification last night on FOX Business Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com NOTE: Tom Woods will be a featured speaker at Nullify Now! Los Angeles on May 28th. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/losangeles/ or by calling 888-71-TICKETS
Scott Horton Interviews Thomas E. Woods
EDITOR’S NOTE: Tom Woods and Scott Horton will both be featured speakers at Nullify Now! Los Angeles on May 28th. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/losangeles/ – or by calling 888-71-TICKETS ******* Thomas E. Woods, author of Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse, discusses the pivotal events (Quebec Act, the “shot heard ’round the [...]
What if I told you the liberty revolution wasn’t real?
by Nick Hankoff What if I told you the liberty revolution wasn’t real? Would you be able to prove me wrong? By acting now you can. You have the power to make a sea change in the freedom movement, but you must act now because that’s exactly what the established political plunderers are betting on [...]
Help Bring Nullify Now! To Jacksonville, Florida
Dear Friends of the Republic; If you were at Nullify Now 10/10/10 in Orlando in October, you will remember the great time that was had by all…from the speakers to the free flowing schedule……We are ready to roll with the second installment…this time in Florida’s great City of Jacksonville! Get your tickets here: http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/campaign-0-2360 For [...]
ThinkSoros on Gary Johnson
EDITOR’S NOTE: Tom Woods will be a featured speaker at Nullify Now! Los Angeles on May 28th. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/losangeles/ – or by calling 888-71-TICKETS ******* Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson launched his 2012 presidential campaign last week. The commissars of approved opinion instantly condemned him for deviating from the Biden/Romney spectrum. Like [...]
Tenther presidential candidates getting press in Florida
Some Florida media outlets are pointing out that Ron Paul and Gary Johnson are Tenthers. Their support of the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution is likely to resonate among Florida’s voters. “Obama won America’s biggest swing state by 3 percentage points in 2008, and he has signaled he will fight hard for the state again in 2012. Already, [...]
Centralization Works!
Yup. Centralization works. For people who hate minority populations and the poor. Take this example from the LA Progressive: “More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began,” Michelle Alexander told a standing room only house at the Pasadena Main Library [...]
How Can I Help?
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article, written by Steve Palmer for the Pennsylvania Tenth Amendment Center answers one of the most frequent questions we get – “What can I do?” While directed towards people in PA, the principles and suggestions are universal – and people in any state can act on his recommendations. Join us! ******* At [...]
May the Tenth Amendment be With You
“I hate the empire but there is nothing I can do about it”, said young Luke Skywalker as he felt the pessimism of realizing that one person can’t possibly defeat something as large and powerful as the evil galactic empire. I suppose that is how we all feel at times when dealing with our own [...]
Texas Must Retain Environmental Management Authority!
Do YOU support Texas independence from the EPA and Executive tyranny? Then tell Governor Perry TODAY to “pull” House Bill 3188 (Rep. Lyle Larson; R-Bexar) out of the House Select Committee on State Sovereignty and send it on its way through the legislative process! HB 3188 is the only bill with “teeth” to enforce a [...]
A Pro-Nullification President?
Gary Johnson, who spoke at Nullify Now! tour stops in both Orlando and Phoenix, has just announced his candidacy for president. And, in an interview with the radical anti-nullification revisionists at ThinkProgress, Johnson made clear his support for the movement around the country. Watch it KEYES: I know a lot of states have been taking [...]
We Must Choose Another Path
Nullification is perhaps the best kept secret of our country’s history. A textbook in recent use at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, American Passages, devoted a meagre five out of its 1,003 total pages to the subject. This despite the past use of nullification in states across the Union on a variety of objects, such as [...]
State Nullification of the Federal Budget
The word nullify has been used for every act of congress that is objectionable on the grounds that it is unconstitutional but yet we dare not to use this word for the federal budget. Why? Budgets are nothing more than laws–laws that direct how federal money is to be spent and this law can be [...]
