State vs. Federal Government: What’s the Difference Anymore?
by Lewis Goldberg, Missouri First NOTE: Missouri First is an official supporter of Nullify Now! Kansas City on August 20, 2011. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/kansascity/ – or by calling 888-71-TICKETS ******* An examination of the structure of most state governments reveals few differences from their masters at Federal, lending credibility to the attitudes of [...]
$2 Trillion in Cuts in Perspective
Congressional Republicans have said that spending cuts must be at least as large as an increase in the debt ceiling. Negotiations over lifting the debt ceiling are ongoing, but the “magic number,” so-to-speak, would be around $2 trillion in spending cuts. Cutting $2 trillion in federal spending sounds like a lot, but it’s actually relatively [...]
A First Step To Sound Money
Editorial of The New York Sun | June 28, 2011 …It’s called the Sound Money Promotion Act, and The New York Sun is happy to lay claim to being the first newspaper to endorse it. The measure, as it is characterized in a press release posted by Senator DeMint, would remove the tax burden on [...]
Texas TSA anti-groping bill fails; fight just beginning
AUSTIN, Texas (June 29) – Last ditch efforts to save a bill that would restrict the TSA’s ability to conduct invasive pat-downs in the Lone Star State failed Wednesday afternoon. The Texas Senate passed its own version of the anti-groping legislation (SB29) 19-11 Tuesday evening and promptly adjourned, leaving representatives just one day to consider [...]
TSA: A Modern Day Prima Nocta?
Prima Nocta was an unconscionable policy whereby kings were rumored to have authorized regional lords with sexual rights to other men’s brides on the night of marriage. In clearer terms, rape of the populace, authorized by the king. I can hear the apologists whispering from the past: “Well, if you don’t want to be raped [...]
My letter to the TSA. And their response
I wrote a letter to the TSA about there Keystone cops antics; Subject: Northwest Florida Regional Airport From: “Dennis Bamford” Date: Mon, June 27, 2011 5:22 am To: “TSA-” Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 Options: View Full Header | View Printable Version | Download this as a file | | Add to Address Book How far is the [...]
Nullification in Kansas City
by Matthew Silber, Missouri Tenth NOTE: Missouri Tenth: A Citizen’s Guide to State Sovereignty is an official supporter of Nullify Now! Kansas City on August 20, 2011. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/kansascity/ – or by calling 888-71-TICKETS ******* As reported on the June 22, 2011 edition of Tenther Radio, Michael Boldin (with host Phil Russo), made [...]
Happy Birthday TAC!
Michael Boldin, founder and executive director of the Tenth Amendment Center, shares a few thoughts on TAC’s 5 year anniversary, how political winds shift, and how you’ll always be under attack when standing for the Constitution: Every issue, every time. No exceptions, no excuses.
Tenther Radio 06-29-11. Guest, Jim Babka
Please join us for TRX: Tenther Radio on June 29, 2011 right here – listen live by clicking the play button at that time on the right. Join the conversation with your comments and questions by calling (323) 843-6008. We’re honored to have as the show’s guest, Jim Babka. (http://www.downsizedc.org) Jim is a writer, activist, [...]
Doesn’t the Supreme Court Have Anything Better To Do?
writes Laurence Vance: The Supreme Court will now decide whether the state of California can block the slaughter of sick pigs. Of course, if we had a federal system of government like we are supposed to (remember the Constitution?), what California allowed or prohibited people to do with pigs would not be the concern of the [...]
There Is More to Life than Elephants and Jackasses
This article is example #8,933 of the importance of Jack Hunter as an Old Right, non-neocon writer and speaker. Jack discusses his meeting with Kirkpatrick Sale, the radical decentralist who had enough principle to have his name removed from the masthead of The Nation when that magazine began drooling over Obama. Sale, whom I have also met, [...]
Reaffirming the Declaration this July 4th
The Fourth of July is fast approaching and will mark the 235 year since Americans declared their Independence and set forth principles for governance under the American experiment. For most, July 4th is a day spent with family and friends, a town parade, the barbeque fired up, and capped off by fireworks. This July 4th [...]
TSA forces elderly, dying woman to strip
TSA agents required a 95-year-old woman in the final stages of Leukemia to remove her adult diaper in order to complete a security screening at the Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend, according to family members. Jean Weber filed a complaint with the TSA after her mother endured the 45 minute ordeal prior to boarding [...]
Kansas City Here We Come!
They don’t want us doing this. We’re doing it anyway. Nullify Now! Kansas City is Saturday, August 20th. Won’t you please JOIN US? Tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/kansascity/ or by calling 888-71-TICKETS ******* On the left, Rachel Maddow and MSNBC attack the nullification movement as “racist.” On the right, the Heritage Foundation calls it dangerous and [...]
Want to Understand the World? Read These Books
Here’s my short list of books I would recommend to someone who is interested in the ideas on this site and wants to learn more. If you read and absorb these books you will never look at the world the same way again. If you’re like me, you are annoyed by books that teach you [...]
My Take on the Evil of Centralized Power
My beliefs might be controversial. I don’t care. This country needs a good controversy if it is to be restored. More and more people are writing things which demonstrate that they are coming to grips with a truism, and this truism is that it isn’t about left vs. right; it’s about the lengths to which [...]
The Principles of 98 Start to Flicker in Wisconsin
It seems as though Wisconsin is ready to assert its tenth amendment rights and claim state sovereignty! Dozens of states have submitted similar resolutions and they have in most cases led to more specific legislation, such as health care freedom acts that nullify Obama’s health care and most recently, Texas, Utah and Michigan currently have resolutions going [...]
Lighting up the feds
That flickering light of freedom down in Texas emanates from an incandescent light bulb. Edison’s brilliant invention will soon go dark in the U.S., essentially prohibited by federal law. Beginning next year, the feds will force Americans to begin abandoning the old standard light bulbs in favor of compact florescent bulbs filled with mercury, or [...]
SCOTUS Defending the 10th Amendment? Good Luck
That’s the message that Kevin Gutzman gave on the recent Bond decision, which ruled that an individual can sue the feds under the 10th Amendment. From 1937 to 1995, the Supreme Court did not rule a single congressional statute unconstitutional. One cannot take for granted that any constitutional provision will be respected if asserted against [...]
Oberstar Comes to the EDA’s Defense
When Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN) lost his bid for reelection in November, it brought to an end a congressional career that spanned nearly a half century. As a former chairman of the House Transportation Committee, Oberstar’s faith in the ability of the federal government to turn taxpayer water into wine was typical for a politician [...]
More evidence the Constitution limited federal power
In my last post I showed how pre-Revolutionary colonial pamphlets espousing the American cause tend to rebut a favorite theory of some “progressive” writers—that the Constitution granted Congress nearly complete power over all activities with interstate effects. Surprisingly, most delegates to the 1787 constitutional convention initially favored a central government nearly that powerful. They would have [...]
Justifiable Nullification!
“If you connect the notion of Rights to that of personnel interest,which is the only immutable point in the human heart,then the only way to govern is through fear”. I believe that was John Adams. And fear is the way that the federal government likes to rule,we’re all terrorist so they have to grope and [...]
Sen. Rand Paul challenges TSA chief
WASHINGTON (June 22, 2011) – Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) unmasked the inane nature of the standards guiding TSA checkpoint procedures during a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee meeting Wednesday. (FULL VIDEO BELOW) “Currently the invasive pat-down searches are random and not based on risk assessment?” Paul asked John Pistole. Speaking typical bureaucratic gobbledygook, [...]
New York Considering Health Care Freedom Act
In 2009 New York had two pieces of state Senate legislation dealing with Healthcare Freedom (S-7374) and reconfirming the Sovereignty of New York (J-4716) introduced by Senator Seward and Senator Michael Nozzolio respectively. A small sliver of light in state whose Governor had accepted federal funds for early introduction of healthcare insurance exchanges in compliance [...]
