What If the Founding Fathers Win. Again?
cross-posted from the Iowa Tenth Amendment Center Ian Millhiser, writing for the Center for American Progress, poses an interesting question: “What if the Tea Party wins?” It turns out that this question is the only interesting thing among the standard progressive boilerplate served up by Mr. Millhiser. I know I shouldn’t waste my time in [...]
Silver Circle Trailer
The folks making the Silver Circle movie, which deals with life after a major economic collapse, have released a one-minute trailer:
Liberty and Independence: Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
cross-posted from the Virginia Tenth Amendment Center The following is modified from the text of a speech in which I competed in the National Christian Forensics and Communications Association and Stoa Speech and Debate last Spring during my senior year of high school. Though you are likely familiar with the subject matter, it is my [...]
Assassinating the Constitution
by Jack Hunter EDITOR’S NOTE: Jack Hunter will be a featured speaker at Nullify Now! Jacksonville. Get tickets here – http://www.nullifynow.com/jacksonville/ – or by calling 888-71-TICKETS The United States Constitution is the law of the land. Our nation’s founding charter was intended to reflect our British common law heritage, the lessons of Greek democracy, and [...]
Going ‘Page by Page, Line by Line’ through the Budget
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing Thursday on President Obama’s pledge to go “page by page, line by line” through the federal budget to eliminate programs “we don’t need.” I testified with an ideologically diverse group of budget experts. My testimony can be read here, but the following are [...]
The Jobs bill is a direct attack on the Constitution
Add to iTunes In this episode of TRX: Tenther Radio, Michael Boldin and co-host Jason Rink ask “What happened to Grover Cleveland?” – discussing the idea of a president actually vetoing a bill on Constitutional grounds. They also discuss the recent Sound Money Summit, which Jason attended in Utah, and get an update on it [...]
Feds announce medical marijuana crackdown
The federal government launched a new offensive in its “war on drugs” this week, targeting medicinal cannabis programs legal under state laws. Late last month, federal prosecutors sent letters of warning to “owners and lienholders of properties where illegal marijuana sales are taking place,” in California, telling them they must shut down the businesses within [...]
Another health care case filed
by Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog The state of Virginia, seeking to revive its constitutional challenge to a key part of the new federal health care law, asked the Supreme Court on Friday to rule that the state has a right to be in court. This is the fifth of the petitions seeking review of the new [...]
ATF Makes Brazen New Attack on the 2nd Amendment
Please join us for TRX: Tenther Radio on October 12, 2011 right here – listen live by clicking the play button at that time on the right. Got questions, comments, feedback on this post that you want us to discuss on air? Post questions NOW in our chat room – here – or call our [...]
Whatever they can do for us, They can do TO us!
cross-posted from the Oregon Tenth Amendment Center Many of us in the Libertarian movement mistakenly view the Federal government as a stick with which to hit the State government like a pinata. I believe this view stems from the faulty belief that the Federal govt. can be limited by a simple piece of paper as [...]
Comparing Definitions of Freedom: The Source of Our Dilemma
Most people do not relate politics to philosophy, but that is exactly what they should be doing if they care to know the roots of the fruit growing from the trees of society and government. If they did, more could be done to communicate effectively to both citizen and politician. History tends to prove that [...]
Muzzling Ministers and the Constitution
Freedom Sunday, held Oct. 2, is now over. This was the Sunday when 539 ministers throughout the United States defied the IRS and federal government and did at least three things in common in their Sunday sermons. They identified where the candidates stood on the issues, what the Bible says on these issues, and where [...]
Passing Thoughts 5
cross-posted from the Pennsylvania Tenth Amendment Center -*- If the power to nullify an unconstitutional law is prohibited to the states, it can be prohibited in one, and only one, place — The Constitution. This fact leads to a simple question which can settle the debate. “Where is the text in the Constitution that prohibits [...]
Don’t Implement ObamaCare Exchanges, Send Back Grants
by Michael F. Cannon, Cato-at-Liberty Back in March, Heritage Foundation scholar Ed Haislmaier wrote that states could blunt ObamaCare’s impact (A) by creating non-ObamaCare compliant, “consumer-centered” Exchanges and/or (B) by creating ObamaCare-compliant, “defensive” health insurance Exchanges. Many states, including some that are suing to overturn ObamaCare as unconstitutional, saw this as a green-light from the free-market groups and forged [...]
ONE WEEK Before Collapse, Cain Says Economy Great
Amazingly, Herman Cain’s star continues to rise, which means Republicans think it’s all right for someone to endorse Mitt Romney, as Cain did, to support TARP (it’s not his fault, say supporters — he somehow had no idea it would be used to “pick winners and losers”!), and to be completely clueless about the condition [...]
The Constitution is About Limits
There is no better excuse to dictate policy than crisis. Our founders knew the propensity of humans to dictate their will through group think in emotional situations. The founders feared and despised central rule by a King and were determined in the constitution to protect against both dictatorship and group or mob rule. We are [...]
An Oath. To the Constitution.
Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers will be a featured speaker at Nullify Now! Jacksonville on October 22nd. Don’t Miss this event! Get all the info here: http://www.nullifynow.com/jacksonville/ ******* The mission of Oath Keepers fits hand in glove with those in support of the Constitution. They urge active duty military and police to remember that [...]
Jeffersonian Equality
It seems the word equality is used so many times that seems to shape the very debate of our modern political thinking. The writer of this article (http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/07/08/mills.debt.dream/index.html?iref=allsearch), Nicolaus Mill, wants to leave the impression that America was founded on the idea of establishing a egalitarian society but that is false. Its easy to take [...]
Tom DiLorenzo on Tenther Radio
Add to iTunes In this episode of TRX: Tenther Radio, Michael Boldin co-host Lesley Swann talk about the 10th Amendment gaining mainstream popularity, Google being brought in for anti-trust hearings by the Federal Government, Tea Party hero Senator Mike Lee banging the drum for federal intervention against Google, the endless grows of federal laws and [...]
