2011: Some Personal Highlights
I wanted to share my personal list of top experiences and milestones from the past 12 months that have me going strong into the new year: Nullify Now! Los Angeles – This event was possibly the most challenging Nullify Now! event of the entire tour. The stakes were high- we could not allow anything short [...]
Top-10 Articles from 2011
From a segment on the 28th Episode of Tenther Radio – starts at approximately 8 minutes into the show. Here’s a collection of the most-read articles from the Tenth Amendment Center website over the course of the year. Remember reading any of these? Any others that you found important that weren’t on the list? 10. [...]
Top-10 Constitutional Violations of 2011
From a segment on the 28th Episode of Tenther Radio – starts at approximately 40 minutes into the show. Here’s a collection of what we think are the worst constitutional violations of 2011. There are a LOT more, and so many are so bad it was hard to keep them off the list. What do [...]
The Time Has Come
As we all set our intentions for 2012, I want to leave you with a thought. One of my many tasks at the Tenth Amendment Center is to spend some time getting to know our prospects- those who have volunteered to take on an organizational role with the Tenth Amendment Center. Today, the recruit I [...]
Tenther Year in Review
Add to iTunes Welcome to our special Tenther Radio “Year in Review” episode! First, Michael Boldin and John Bush reviewed the “Most-Read Articles of 2011″ from the Tenth Amendment Center Website. And then, John Bush gave us an update on the Nullifcation: The Movie. The documentary will be premiering at the CPAC convention in Washington DC [...]
Free Kansas
The “revolution in a corn field” that is happening today in Governor Sam Brownback’s Kansas is potentially as important as what happened here in 1776. Because in the last two years the states have learned that they don’t have to do what the federal government tells them to do. They can think for themselves and [...]
The Constitution and the Founders
The vision of our founders that was captured in the document we call the constitution is nothing short of a miracle. As we look at the political environment today, it is clear how truly brilliant our founders actually were. The Constitution was created to limit the government from controlling the lives of the governed. For [...]
Who Was the Least Bad U.S. President?
Martin van Buren. Jeff Hummel makes the case in a paper delivered at a conference I attended and spoke at myself 1998, while still a lad. Here’s Murray Rothbard making the case for van Buren about a decade earlier, with the important caveat that he was unlibertarian on the Indian question.
Jury Nullification in Montana!
Writes David Kramer: “A judge in Montana was unable to seat a jury in a marijuana possession case because no one was willing to even sit on the jury in order to hear the case. Eventually, the judge had to let the innocent man go.”
TSA vs Cupcakes
Folks may know how I like to pick on the cupcake craze because I see it as just one of many boom-bust absurdities that were born during the years of excess spawned by government monetary policy that encouraged and triggered credit addiction and high time preferences. During the boom years, we saw the rise of the cupcake craze, just [...]
Treason, Counterfeiting and Piracy
There are only THREE crimes that permit constitutional police action on the part of the Federal government- treason, counterfeiting and piracy- so one has to wonder which of those crimes was alleged when a Predator B drone was used by the Feds to arrest three alleged cow thieves in North Dakota this past summer. Since [...]
The FDA Weighs in on Sperm Safety?
The FDA has asked a sperm donor to cease-and-desist in the case of his community service, er, um, sperm donation. Trent Arsenault, a minister’s son from the San Francisco Bay area, just wants to help women who cannot afford governmentized sperm donor banks. Trent has fathered 14 children in five years and has four more bunnies on [...]
A Christmas Gift for my Daughter
by Harry Browne Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in December, 2002. A previous version of it was published on December 25, 1966, dedicated to Harry’s then 9-year-old daughter.) It’s Christmas, and I have the usual problem of deciding what to give you. I know you might enjoy many things – books, games, clothes. [...]
Be not afraid
The Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary with a simple salutation. “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” But Mary didn’t react with joy to the celestial message. In fact, Luke says, “Mary was greatly troubled by his words…” Greatly troubled. Doesn’t that seem to describe the state of America today? We [...]
The 2011 Wastebook
The office of Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has released the 2011 edition of its annual “Wastebook.” The document spotlights 100 particularly ridiculous expenditures of taxpayer money from the past year. From an entertainment standpoint, it’s pure gold. But it’s also infuriating, depressing, and a painful reminder of what happens when politicians and bureaucrats spend other [...]
Benton McMillin?
Benton McMillin? What, you never heard of Benton McMillin? Well, in order to find out who he is, lets start with some recent catch phrases and work our way back. I’m sure we have all heard the battle cry of our progressive leaders in Congress and the White House of “spreading the wealth” and the [...]
Temporary: Maybe it’s Our Turn…
The Congress and the president have come up with yet another temporary “fix” to the latest funding extension to a budget that hasn’t been passed in over two years plus. It seems we are always scrambling to avoid another federal government shutdown. Well I say let the place shut down. Then at least we will [...]
Jack Link’s Presents: Messin’ With Taxpayers
If you’re a taxpayer and you like beef jerky, I have good and bad news. The good news is that Jack Link’s is expanding the production facilities at its corporate home in Minong, Wisconsin. The bad news is the expansion is being “made possible” with a $365,000 federal grant to Minong for infrastructure upgrades. The money comes [...]
FDA escalates war against Amish dairy farmers
KIZERS, Pa. – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ratcheted up its war on Amish raw dairy farmers on Dec. 6, filing a “motion for summary judgment,” with Pennsylvania judge Lawrence Stengler, asking for a permanent injunction against dairy farmer Dan Allgyer. If granted, the injunction would forbid him from selling fresh milk to out [...]
How Dare They?
cross-posted from the Pennsylvania Tenth Amendment Center Debt Slavery: Debt bondage (or bonded labour) is when a person pledges him or herself against a loan. In debt bondage, the services required to repay the debt may be undefined, and the services’ duration may be undefined. Debt bondage can be passed on from generation to generation. With more than $15 Trillion in [...]
Did George W. Bush destroy America? Will Gingrich?
Ruling class suggests Kim Jong-il’s son is in charge, as sclerotic North Korea like Greece pitches its third family member. And Jeb Bush likewise hovers this morning again at the top of the WSJ op ed page as his family seeks, strives and hopes for a brokered convention. Because without Bush (III) there is no [...]
Sheriff’s First! Tenther Radio 12-21-11
Please join us for TRX: Tenther Radio on December 21, 2011 here – listen live by clicking the play button at that time on the right. Take part in the conversation with your comments and questions in our chat room here, or leave us a voice message in advance at 213.785.7848. Add to iTunes Recently [...]
The Fed vs. The 14th Amendment and Christian Tolerance
“Christians came up with the idea of Tolerance.” Says Bill Federer, an individual whose work seeks to reassert the conveniently ignored influence that Christianity played in history of the United States. Mr. Federer, author of America’s God and Country, and The Original Thirteen, appeared on Frank Turek’s Cross Examined in order to explain his position. [...]
Baby Boomers: From Selfish to Selfless
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. -Greek proverb One thing that’s certain about this movement to save the republic from our own centralized state, is that the fruits of our labor are far, far off. You cannot reverse decades of centralization in one [...]
Dec 28, 2011 | Categories:Activism, Commentary | Tags: Activism, baby boomer, youth | 3 Comments »