Cato Video on $2 Trillion in Spending Cuts
A new video produced by Cato’s Caleb Brown and Austin Bragg does a typically stellar job of visualizing the alleged $2 trillion in spending cuts currently being negotiated on Capitol Hill as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling. The video is based on my recent chart, which shows that $2 trillion in cuts [...]
Moving Forward to a New Digital Gold Standard
This is a great article on how we can use gold & silver in everyday transactions. It answers the points raised by oh-so-many legislators: “Gold and silver are too heavy to carry around a bag of metal to pay for everyday purchases.” “Gold is too valuable, we’d be using pieces the size of rice to [...]
Reining in Congress: An Enforceable Balanced Budget Amendment
There is growing sentiment that one or more constitutional amendments may be necessary to rein in the runaway Congress. The principal mechanism the Founders built into the Constitution for such contingencies is the procedure in Article V by which two thirds of the state legislatures force what the Constitution calls a “Convention for proposing Amendments.” [...]
Not in YOUR front yard.
I have a friend that I am going to call Sally for the sake of this post. I would best describe Sally as a left leaning progressive. She believes strongly in using the strong arm of government to facilitate “social justice.” Today Sally found the thumb of regulation on the other hand. And it pressed [...]
Constitutional Sentence Frags
There is one trick that the progressive left likes to use which is to fragmentize the constitution in order to get the meaning that they want. A good example of this is the commerce clause where they use the narrow phrase ‘regulate commerce’ to suggest that congress has the power to regulate commercial activities. They [...]
Texas Leadership Fails Texans
Co-authored by Steve Baysinger and Brian Roberts This week after a little time to reflect, Texans are wondering what happened to the TSA bill last week. A month ago it looked like shoe-in, then it looked dead, then it was reborn, then it was delayed in creative ways only to find the dustbin at the [...]
Tea Time interviews NJTAC on Nullification
Peter Kavalus and Brenda Poland of the New Jersey Tenth Amendment Center sit down with Tea Time to discuss Nullification. Tea Time is sponsored by the NJ Tea Party Coalition. We would like to thank the NJ Tea Party Coalition for inviting us, and encourage everyone to visit their website and youtube channel. The Tea [...]
How to Arrest The Economy-Strangling EPA
The Supreme Court ruled on June 20, 2011 that the power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (primarily carbon) rests with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), saying that the EPA is better equipped to deal with the science of greenhouse gases (aka global warming, climate change and CO2). The Clean Air Act has been expanded [...]
Beware of Republican Apologist Teaocons
by Tona Monroe While Tennessee has two Republican Senators, neither is particularly known for being a principled conservative. Senator Bob Corker quickly earned the nickname “Bailout Bob” after voting for the TARP bailout and the list of his unconstitutional votes is a mile long. Yet, a recent article would have the public believe that Tennessee Tea Partiers are actually [...]
Mitch Daniels and the Federal Money Grab
For much of the nation’s history, policymakers recognized that the federal government’s powers were “few and defined,” as James Madison noted. Issues like education and community development were largely left to the states. Unfortunately, the separation of responsibilities between the federal government and states has been eroded to the point that federal funds now account [...]
Bad Boyz?
What have we allowed to happen in our country, when police can arrest you on your own property without warrant, or probable cause?… Police who take this sort of license disgust me. I have followed up on the net You can find accounts of the story here, here, or here. The underlying claim of the [...]
Poor Rick Scott. He Was Only Following the Law
“I don’t know that I would have made the decision to go forward with this if I had been around three or four years ago,” he said in St. Petersburg at the Florida Press Association/Florida Society of News Editors annual meeting. “I walked in with this set of facts.” He said his attorneys told him [...]
The Price We Pay
February 8, 1924 dawned cold and icy, just like any other winter morning in Emory Gap, Roane County, Tennessee. But the day would prove far from ordinary. Constable James Jett had information about an illegal moonshine still on the Newport family farm. This was the era of Prohibition, and the U.S. Constitution had been amended [...]
Passing Thoughts
When people qualify the word “justice” with adjectives like “social” or “racial” or “environmental”, what they usually mean is, “injustice”. Justice applies to individuals, not groups. It is impossible for the federal government (or anyone else) to provide justice to groups by violating individuals’ rights. === My truck is not the planet’s thermostat. Neither is [...]
Independence Forever
An Independence Day article cross-posted from the Tennessee Tenth Amendment Center. Worth a read the day after. ******* “Independence Forever” These words were uttered by John Adams, as a toast to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Iindependence. Those words were also among his last as both he and Thomas Jefferson died that [...]
The Tenth, Texas and the TSA
By Becky Akers As originally published at American Daily Herald“ Ohio’s “GOP-controlled Senate” recently passed a resolution that ”would place an issue on the November ballot … prohibit[ing] any law from forcing Ohioans to participate in a health care system.” The measure now heads to Ohio’s House. It needs 60 votes there, which seems likely [...]
Think Federal Agencies are Interested in Success? Think Again
Today, an unprecedented amount of individual responsibilities have been delegated to the Federal govt. This trend has been to the detriment of our society. What is the goal of any human? The goal of any person is to make their life better, whether through more money, more security or less work; everything we do is [...]
Tenther Radio 07-06-11. Guest, Kevin Gutzman
Please join us for TRX: Tenther Radio on July 6, 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, Kevin Gutzman.
Two States Defying No Child Left Behind
from Andrew J. Coulson, Cato-at-Liberty: South Dakota joined Idaho this week in declaring that it will not raise its student proficiency targets next year as required by the NCLB. Under the law, states have been required to bring increasing percentages of their students up to the “proficient” level on their own tests. By 2014, NCLB demands [...]
Do federal elections really matter?
Do federal elections really matter? The answer around the Tenth Amendment Center seems generally to be No. Perhaps a more nuanced way of answering the question would be, in the near term, Yes, but in the long run, No. The trouble is with the place itself. Washington, D.C., has indeed become ‘ “the asylum of [...]
