Bush, Obama: Signing Statement Buddies
The only power the president has with respect to making law is his signature or the veto of law passed by Congress, or threat thereof. That veto power requires that he return the bill with “his objections” for reconsideration which Congress can override by a two-thirds vote. He may also suggest an area needing the [...]
Charity and the Federal Government
David Boaz’s post on bizarre and utterly preposterous claims that the federal government’s “social safety net” has been shrinking brought to my mind James Madison’s position that “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” “The Father of the Constitution” wasn’t being cold-hearted when he took this position during a 1794 debate [...]
Why I Changed My Mind
At “An Evening with Tom Woods,” an event at this year’s Mises University program, I talked about how I went from being a boring, middle-of-the-road GOP guy to a defender of a free and humane society. The students seemed to like it. Tom Woods will be a featured speaker at Nullify Now! Kansas City. Get [...]
Tenther Radio Episode 7: Ryan Bowman, John Dennis
Add to iTunes In this episode, hosts Phil Russo and Michael Boldin talk about Rick Perry flip flopping on his Tenther views and now advocating more central control in DC over social issues in the states – somthing the founders were strongly opposed to in the Constitution. They welcome John Dennis, 2010 republican challenger to [...]
Washington Post Article Calls for Nullification of No Child Left Behind
cross-posted from the North Carolina Tenth Amendment Center The Obama administration’s Department of Education has a plan to offer ‘waivers’ regarding the closing of schools as mandated by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) federal education law. States are unable to meet the requirements, and apprehension is growing that penalties will kick in as goals [...]
Super Congress A Gift to K Street
by Ron Paul The Super Congress created by the recent debt ceiling increase deal is a typical example of something nefarious attached to a bigger bill that is rushed through Congress without giving Members ample opportunity to consider the full ramifications. This commission may turn into an early Christmas present for the well-heeled lobbyists of [...]
The Tea Party Under Attack
The Tea Party movement is under assault and there is a concerted effort to define them as radical outsiders and hell bent on destroying the federal government. The attacks are coming from politicians that believe they know best about the things we need, and will take all the resource necessary to deliver on their grand [...]
Tenther Radio 08-10-11. Guests, Gary Marbut, Will Stewart-Starks
Please join us for TRX: Tenther Radio on August 10, 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, Gary Marbut and Will Stewart-Starks. Add to iTunes [...]
Can I Ask You A Question?
cross-posted from the Tennessee Tenth Amendment Center Can I ask you a question? Do you remember the junior high prank that starts with that phrase? It would usually be followed with a request to restrict your answer to a simple “yes or no”. For maximum effect, this prank is usually done in front of a [...]
Entrepreneur of Ideas
Lew Rockwell graciously permitted me to interview him on his own podcast, The Lew Rockwell Show, several days ago. Lew, as Robert Wenzel notes, is one of the great entrepreneurs of libertarian ideas. Here we talk about all kinds of things: how he first became interested in these ideas, his work on the Goldwater campaign, [...]
Florida Sheriffs Decline To Enforce Law Against TSA Gropers
Liberty Movement activists and the Florida Sheriff’s ended the Sunday afternoon of July 31,2011 with at best an agree to disagree opinion of taking action to end TSA groping of law abiding airline passengers. We suggest that since the Sheriffs will be standing for re-election in 2012, this issue be kept alive and in the forefront of Liberty Movement [...]
The negative effects of nationalism
War is coming. Not foreign but a war domestic, the war for control of Washington, D.C., in 2012. Look what hangs in the balance: energy and education policy, income and corporate tax rates, agriculture subsidies, environmental regulations, retirement pensions, the health care system, and more besides. Quickly! Quickly! To the blogs, to the streets, to [...]
Verify, Never Trust
In the scramble amongst the Republican candidates for 2012, there has been a lot more discussion of the Constitution than in previous elections. Congressman Ron Paul‘s criticism of both Democrats and his fellow Republicans has been their failure to follow the Constitution, either through bloated social programs or endless wars. His campaign message in Congress and in Presidential campaigns [...]
Bread and Circuses
This debt deal just delays the inevitable as it cuts the rate of increase in projected spending but does not actually reduce actual year over year spending. And it does nothing about unfunded entitlements. To quote the article below… “All these “cuts” are modest reductions in the growth of outlays envisioned in President [...]
Confused About an Article V Amendments Convention? New Article Provides Answers
As I predicted in this column, Congress’s continued inability to deal effectively with the debt crisis is AGAIN provoking interest in bypassing Congress with one or more corrective constitutional amendments. We could do this if the state legislatures use their constitutional power to bring about what the Constitution calls a “convention for proposing amendments.” I’m delighted to report [...]
Debt Deal: Spending in Perspective
The following chart looks at total projected federal spending according to the Congressional Budget Office’sadjusted March baseline and its score of the debt deal. The chart only considers the reduction in outlays resulting from the deal’s cap on discretionary spending, which the CBO says will save $917 billion over the next ten years. It does [...]
If not D.C. then WHO!?
cross-posted from the Oregon Tenth Amendment Center I was talking to a friend of mine and we were discussing the recent Bond ruling that recognizes individual standing to claim Federal 10th Amendment violations when defending in Criminal Court. I referenced the fact that the Federal Govt. shouldn’t be allowed to try cases of constitutional law [...]
Gang of Armored Government Criminals Raid Raw Milk Seller. Again.
Infowars and the Huffington Post are reporting that a combined army from the LA County Sheriff’s Office, the FDA, the Dept. of Agriculture, and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) raided Rawesome Foods – again – and three people have been arrested and “are being charged with conspiracy to sell unpasteurized raw milk products.” One of the detainees [...]
Healthcare Expansionism
The progression of the ‘one-party, two-name’ forced healthcare system in the U.S., the most recent installment of which is known as “Obamacare” (passed 2010, but rejected by the majority of Americans), requires a brief history of how we got here and why it’s important to understand the one-party, two-name moniker. In 1965, the Social Security [...]
The Department of Education Has Failed
cross-posted from the Nevada Tenth Amendment Center Why do public schools spend millions of dollars designing, implementing, and evaluating high-stakes accountability tests? Why is the 650-plus page No Child Left Behind Act shamefully 43 times larger than the Constitution only to impose exceptionally burdensome regulations on states, districts, and schools? Why is it that the Department of [...]
What do We Mean by State’s Rights?
Governor Perry seems to have taken two completely contradictory positions by saying he is OK with the mighty state of New York allowing gay marriage but also coming out and saying he would support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/30/rick-perry-gay-marriage_n_914060.html). It would seem that such an amendment would would interfere with a state’s ability [...]
The Joshua Glover story
Michael Maharrey will be a featured speaker at Nullify Now! Kansas City. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/kansascity/ – or by calling 888-71-TICKETS In March 1852, a posse led by a federal marshal and a former “master” apprehended a runaway slave in Wisconsin. They drug him from his home and locked him in a jail in [...]
My reply to Marco Rubio on the debt
~“And so that is the first thing we need to do, is figure out how to create jobs in America and I think there is bipartisan agreement on things we can do to do that.”~ Let me say this about the quote. Our Central Government has no business in “creating jobs”! In fact it is [...]
