All I want is to live free!
Michael Boldin, founder and director of the Tenth Amendment Center (http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com) speaks at Nullify Now! Los Angeles on 05-28-11 (http://www.nullifynow.com/losangeles) The event was co-sponsored by the Foundation for a Free Society (http://www.myfreesociety.com)
Is Your Governor For Sale?
Congress failed 3 times to pass laws (HR 2421, S. 1879 and S. 787) for federal control over almost all water, so the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers are declaring jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. Currently, waters with a ‘significant nexus’ to ‘navigable waters’ are covered under the Clean Water Act (CWA). The [...]
Am I Too Hard on the Left?
Having watched the video of my recent speech in L.A., a critic writes: Woods isolates himself by insulting the “Left,” since he’s still brainwashed by that false Left-Right paradigm. I don’t know anyone – Left or Right – who appreciates being groped by the TSA, or who wants their food genetically modified, or wants to bailout [...]
Economic Development Administration Reauthorization
The Senate is set to take up legislation reauthorizing the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration. A relic of the Great Society, the EDA was created to help economically depressed areas of the country. Today it’s just another example of an unnecessary, unconstitutional program that lingers around because politicians like to demonstrate to the public that [...]
Obama conjures up new unconstitutional body
WASHINGTON (June 9, 2011) – The Obama administration announced the creation of a White House Rural Council today. Pres. Obama signed an executive order forming the new bureaucratic entity. According to a White House press release, the White House Rural Council will: Coordinate programs across government to encourage public-private partnerships to promote further economic prosperity [...]
Tea Party Express: We’ll Take the Plastic Man
Amy Kremer, who chairs the Tea Party Express, told FOX News the other day, “Whoever the Republican nominee is will have to have the support of the Tea Party movement, the entire Tea Party movement.” She went on to say that this included Mitt Romney. (Thanks to Anthony Gregory for the link.) Some kind of sociological [...]
Help Bring Nullify Now! to Philadelphia
http://www.nullifynow.com/philadelphia/ Putting this event together takes a lot of dedication, numerous local groups supporting and helping promote, and generating the start-up funding to get it off the ground. Here’s the process: 1. FUNDING. Outreach to the local community and potential group sponsors to help with the funding needed to secure the venue, confirm speakers, and [...]
Holding the President Accountable on Libya
by Ron Paul Last week, more than 70 days after President Obama sent our military to attack Libya without a congressional declaration of war, the House of Representatives finally voted on two resolutions attempting to rein in the president. This debate was long overdue, as polls show Americans increasingly are frustrated by congressional inaction. According [...]
An Open Letter to Gov. Rick Perry: Stand and Fight (or Tuck Tail and Run)?
On May 24, 2011, Texas Rep. David Simpson (R-Longview) wrote Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, House Speaker Rep. Joe Straus and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott regarding HB 1937 (Texas push-back on TSA abuse) a letter. In that letter Rep. Simpson wisely stated: Gentlemen, we find ourselves at a watershed moment today. The [...]
The Elderly, Poor, and Disabled
It is common for those that oppose any reforms in entitlement programs to lump the elderly, poor, and disabled into a category of folks that must be protected from reductions in government programs. It drives me crazy when the media broad brushes these groups to support arguments against any real reform of any government program. [...]
Nullification In Connecticut: Senate Passes Marijuana Decrim Bill
Connecticut took a step toward joining a number of states, including neighboring New York and Massachusetts, that are standing up to the federal government and nullifying federal penalties for simple possession of cannabis through decriminalization initiatives. While decriminalization is not the same as legalization, it does take away the threat of a criminal record and [...]
Obamacare is NOT “necessary and proper”
The Independence Institute has filed amicus briefs in two of the anti-Obamacare cases. The briefs focus specifically on the Necessary and Proper Clause (I-8-18), which the Obama administration inaccurately claims justifies federal control of health care. The briefs survey the original meaning of the Necessary and Proper Clause, based on my research and that of [...]
The Tea Party Is a Brown-Shirt Movement, Mostly
cross-posted from the LewRockwell.com blog It was obvious in the beginning of 2009 when all of a sudden many of them sprung up crying out for their liberty, after years of silence under the fascist Bush administration. They focused on culture-war hot buttons and symbolic battles while ignoring the programs that actually threatened fiscal catastrophe: [...]
Did the Anti-Federalists have a crystal ball?
No,I don’t think they did, these men knew human nature , declaring there independence from a monarchy made them well aware of the tryanny that absolute power derives. The Anti-Federalist were fighting to keep the ”Spirit of 76″ alive and incorporate it into the Constitution and they would have, if they had a better publisher [...]
National ID cards are for Dictatorships not Republics
Ron Paul on National ID: “Dictatorships have these, not a Free Republic” (h/t DailyPaul)
Health care freedom amendment proposed for Florida
Floridians will have the opportunity to vote for “health care freedom” next year. The Florida Health Care Freedom Act, a constitutional amendment initiative, will appear on the 2012 Florida general election ballot. The amendment, “Proposes creation of s. 28, Art. I of State Constitution to prohibit laws or rules from compelling any person or employer [...]
Nullification: The Movie!
This yet to be released documentary from the Foundation for a Free Society http://www.myfreesociety.com and the Tenth Amendment Center http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com features Thomas Woods, Michael Boldin, Debra Medina, Stewart Rhodes, Sheriff Richard Mack, Charles Goyette, Kevin Gutzman, Robert Scott Bell, Mike Adams, Jason Rink, John Bush, Bryce Shonka, Mike Maharrey, and others. Song “The Message of [...]
Second protest at Jefferson Memorial
WASHINGTON – (June 4, 2011) – Protesters kept their promise to silently dance at the Jefferson Memorial today. Last week, Capitol Park Police arrested four men and a woman for illegally dancing inside the monument, charging them with demonstrating without a permit. The dancers were protesting a recent court ruling upholding the 2008 arrest of [...]
House Republicans Target Amtrak
House Transportation Committee chairman John Mica (R-FL) and Rail Subcommittee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) announced that they will draw up legislation that would kill Amtrak’s desire to develop and operate high-speed rail in the Northeast Corridor: We plan introduce legislation to separate the Northeast Corridor from Amtrak, transfer it to a separate entity, and begin a [...]
Texans call TSA’s bluff on ‘no-fly zone’
AUSTIN, Texas – Did the federal government really just threaten a “no-fly zone” around Texas? Or is this a high-stakes game of Texas Hold ‘Em? A group of local activists are calling the bluff of federal agents who threatened to shut-down airports within the Lone Star State if the Legislature takes action to rein-in the pat-down [...]
Let’s Bring the Nullify Now! Tour to Philly!
We are excited to be planning a Nullify Now! Event in Philadelphia! We are not yet confirming a date, but one target is Sept 17th, which is Constitution Day! With our friends from the Pennsylvania Tenth Amendment Center partnering on the event, some of the details in the works are: Great speakers – Tom Woods, [...]
Nullify the Patriot Act!
The struggle for liberty is not over. After passing in 2001, there’s been five elections, and nothing’s changed. Elections will not fix this problem. Nullification and localized resistance will. We really need you to get involved locally and will soon be providing a multi-step plan to render the Patriot Act null and void. Here’s how [...]
Nullification is Constitutional
by Tom Mullen The near-showdown in Texas did not break any new ground in the nullification debate. The Texas House of Representatives passed a law that made the touching of genitals or breasts by TSA personnel illegal and punishable by fines and imprisonment. The federal government responded by citing the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, [...]
The United States as a Confederation
by Rick Montes, New York Tenth Amendment Center In order to understand the true relationship between the Federal government and the States, we need to understand that we are a Confederation of Sovereign, Independent States who created the Federal government. The United States as a Confederation, and the relevance of the Tenth Amendment
