Tenther Radio 08-03-11. Guests, John Dennis, Ryan Bowman
Please join us for TRX: Tenther Radio on August 3, 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 guests, John Dennis and Ryan Bowman.
Third Manassas: Obama’s war on America
The greatest bungle in the debt crisis was on July 19 when as NPR reported: “Former President Bill Clinton said if faced with default, he would single-handedly raise the debt ceiling using the 14th Amendment and he’d do it ‘without hesitation . . . .’” The boorishness and bluff of the language calls to mind [...]
Coolest Sheriff in the Country: Richard Mack on Tenther Radio
Add to iTunes In this episode, hosts John Bush and Michael Boldin talk about how big corporate farming interests that backed passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) are in for a surprise, we’ll tell you what Washington State is doing to combat food tyranny. They also discuss the battle between Rick Santorum [...]
Get the Feds out of Highway Funding!
Michigan State Representative Paul Opsommer, R-DeWitt, announced today that he would be working with fellow transportation leaders at the upcoming National Conference of State Legislators conference to help push for more state autonomy in transportation spending. “The past 5 years in Lansing have focused almost continually on making sure we could always match federal transportation [...]
Paul Krugman on Default: Crazy for You
Paul Krugman, columnist for The New York Times, is a piece of work. You see, Krugman is always right. And if you don’t agree with him, you’re “crazy.” Krugman begins his July 14 column, “Getting to Crazy”, with this: “There aren’t many positive aspects to the looming possibility of a U.S. debt default. But there [...]
What You Learned in School was Wrong
Tom Woods on Stossel: “In school, what do we get on unions besides propaganda?” Tom Woods will be a featured speaker at Nullify Now! Kansas City. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/kansascity/ – or by calling 888-71-TICKETS
Agenda 21, ICLEI and the Tenth Amendment
cross-posted from the North Carolina Tenth Amendment Center I recently attended the North Raleigh Kitchen Table Meetup on Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 in Wake County North Carolina. I’d like to personally thank Pam and Russ for all their hard work in managing this group. This group is very concerned and knowledgeable about Agenda 21 and [...]
Debt Debate a Reminder of What Government Is
If it is true that a failure to increase the debt limit on August 2nd has the potential to bring about economic Armageddon, shouldn’t we be asking ourselves if it’s a good idea to allow the political class in Washington to continue collectively play God with our lives? After all, these people are fallible human beings. [...]
The Art of Sounding Informed When You Are Not
Time and time again I have overheard discussion or arguments where participants polarize. The one who knows the most attempts to stay on focus providing ever more points to show his case. The less informed cannot stay focused, as he has run out of specifics. He resorts to one of five techniques: spraying, changing the [...]
We Already Have a Balanced Budget Amendment
cross-posted from the Pennsylvania Tenth Amendment Center We already have a balanced budget amendment. It’s called the Tenth Amendment The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The Pesky Neighbor and the Debt Ceiling
by Ron Paul Imagine you had a pesky neighbor who somehow took out a mortgage on his house in your name and by some legal trickery you were obligated to pay for it. Imagine watching this neighbor throw drunken parties, buy expensive cars, add more rooms to the house, and hire dozens of people to [...]
GA Rep. Bobby Franklin Dies: Introduced Constitutional Tender Act
My friend, Georgia Rep. Bobby Franklin, has passed away. This man was a giant — in faith, in intellect, in fidelity, in so much more. We came to be friends as we worked on the Constitutional Tender Act together — and I learned that if a majority of State legislators would only vote the Constitutional [...]
Health care freedom on Buckeye ballot
The Tenth Amendment declares emphatically that all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution are reserved to the States, or to the people. In Ohio, the people will have the opportunity to speak. On Tuesday, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted certified 426,998 petition signatures, more than enough to place a state [...]
Tenther Radio 07-27-11. Guests, Sheriff Mack, Mary Pilcher-Cook
Please join us for TRX: Tenther Radio on July 27, 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 guests, Sheriff Mack and Mary Pilcher-Cook. Add to iTunes [...]
Has It Really Come To This?
cross-posted from the Rhode Island Tenth Amendment Center How is it that there even exists a Food Freedom Ordinance (http://www.stevenscountyassembly.com/blog-entry/farm/food-freedom-ordinance-final) anywhere in the United States? With many of our liberties being seemingly taken away by bogus legislation, this one goes to the heart of the matter. Our way of life in America is under attack, [...]
The States That Rob You the Most (and the Least)
This article on Yahoo Finance is hardly a surprise, but it is worth a mention here. The article lists the ten states with the highest tax burdens and the ten states with the lowest tax burdens. The highest tax states are predictable – if you follow this stuff at all, you’ll get at least 7 [...]
Tenther Radio Episode 5: Oath Keepers, AFP
Add to iTunes In this episode, hosts Phil Russo and Michael Boldin talk about some fundraising success for the TAC, Gary Marbut’s Firearms Freedom Act moving forward around the country, endless debt and threats by the Obama Administration to cut benefits to seniors, and more. They’re joined by two guests, Dani Rascon of Oath Keepers-Los [...]
Will Failure to Preserve Federalism Cost Us Our Liberty?
Many do not know that we live under two political systems: one primarily national in function, the other primarily domestic. It’s called federalism—the two share power and are equal. Neither was to be subservient to the other and each was to have separate duties. Thomas Jefferson explained it best when he said, “The states are [...]
George Washington on avoiding the 2 party system
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissensions, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute [...]
The hyper-regulating executive branch
Over at National Review Online, Jim Lacey has done everyone a favour by illustrating the utter contempt the federal government has come to have for the document that gives it its very life – the U.S. Constitution. He draws a hideous picture of an executive branch engaged not in some occasional rule-making of a trifling [...]
More states defying feds on no child left behind act
From the Associated Press: At least three states are vowing to ignore the latest requirements under the No Child Left Behind law in an act of defiance against the federal government that demonstrates their growing frustration over an education program they say sets unrealistic benchmarks for schools. The law sets a goal of having 100 [...]
PA-13 Rep. Allyson Schwartz – Balanced Budgets are “Extreme”
cross-posted from the Pennsylvania Tenth Amendment Center Personally, I’m not big on the balanced budget amendment either. I think the 2/3 override vote will become a “rubber stamp” for future congresses (if there’s one thing both parties can agree on, it’s spending money!) and Constitutionally limited spending would be less than 18% of GDP anyway. [...]
PolitiFact Florida Truth-O-Meter: Right on Haridopolis Tweet, Wrong On Constitution
cross-posted from the Florida Tenth Amendment Center In Fridays July 15th,2011 St.Pete Times, the PolitiFact Florida Truth- O- Meter takes issue with a tweet from Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolis. The tweet reads: “Florida’s proposed Health Care Freedom Act “will allow Floridians to opt out of Obama’s govt. takeover of healthcare!” You can read the original article [...]
‘Gang of Six’ Plan Is Lousy
My colleague Dan Mitchell discussed the good, the bad, and the ugly in the deficit reduction plan released by the bipartisan group of senators known as the “Gang of Six.” As Dan noted, the plan is more of an outline and a complete assessment isn’t possible until more details emerge. However, the fact that President Obama immediately embraced [...]
