Abandon the Constitution to Save it?
Based on ideas from Cokie Roberts’ recent article found here, it is hard to draw any conclusion other than she prefers a dictatorship of the federal government to the balance of power guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Obamacare has been signed into law. However, there are a number of other checks and balances built into [...]
Valentine, Boldin on the Tennessee AG
The Phil Valentine show on Tuesday – talking about the supremacy clause, and reading my post about the Tennessee Attorney General…
Wasting Time with Negativity?
Here’s a “special interest” post that might lead to some fun ones in the future – not political per se, but something of interest from the Tenth Amendment Center inbox over the past week or so. I thought some people might be interested in this little back and forth I had by email with someone [...]
Why the Left Should Oppose “Obamacare” Too
Jane Hamsher over at Firedoglake gives the full overview of why this new health care reform law is a slap in the face of the left who wanted something far different. Real health care reform is the thing we’ve fought for from the start. It is desperately needed. But this bill falls short on many [...]
Rachel Maddow’s Blog Targets VA Tenthers
I guess we should be pleased; Rachel Maddow’s blog reads the Virginia Tenth Amendment Center. It’s true, her blog linked to a picture we posted from the January 18th Lobby Day. Of course, it was done in the context of describing us tenthers as “out-there,” but when you’re as unappreciated as the Constitution is these days, any press is good press. Later, [...]
Nullification In the News: Get Used to It
As predicted, Congressional passage of President Obama’s sweeping health insurance “reform” bill has not ended the constitutional debate between federal and state authority. On the contrary, America seems poised to confront those issues directly, and with a force not seen in over a century. As with the the first time around, those who shill for centralized power do so at the expense of [...]
Dora the Census Explorer
Children, spy on your family. BTW, funny to see the constant stress in census propaganda about “getting good things for our town, like day care centers and schools.” That is, in return for your written nudo-scan, politically connected businessmen can get richer constructing more federal anti-family indoctrination halls at your expense. What a deal! (Thanks [...]
The Politics of Obammunism
The Obammunist’s socialized health care legislation promises to cut Medicare spending by hundreds of billions of dollars while increasing Medicare spending by hundreds of billions. At least half of all Medicare enrollees vote Republican; almost all Medicaid enrollees vote Democrat. This is why the Obammunists are so euphoric today. Wicked Witch Pelosi (D-Botox) says this [...]
Tenthers are Obstructionists!
First we were called racists, now we’re something else because we demand that the government follow the constitution – every issue, every time. No exceptions, no excuses. Brian Melendez, head of the DFL party in Minnesota, has this to say in a recent interview with MN public radio: “The tea party tends to identify themselves [...]
Good News: Taxes Are Voluntary
And you thought you had to pay them? Ridiculous! Senator Harry Reid says, “the government doesn’t force you to pay taxes.” Reid says that he “doesn’t accept the phraseology” that the government “forcefully takes money from you.” Really, I am not joking. Oh … and he says that the reason our system is called a [...]
Smearing Oath Keepers
Mother Jones and The New York Times have published substance-free attack pieces on the constitutionalist organization Oath Keepers (OK). And what are Oath Keepers guilty of? Vowing that they will refuse to violate Civil Liberties! Check out their 10 orders they won’t follow. The only one I could see the left getting upset about is [...]
American Thinker’s Curious Coverage of Nullification
J. Robert Smith writes A Curious Dalliance with Nullification at American Thinker today. By using three citations from a single page in a single book, he determines that the idea of nullification is mistaken and that those of us who support nullification as a remedy to federal overreach are misguided. Here are the the article [...]
The Tenthers
Nolan Finley is a very conventional columnist for the Detroit News. Nolan has just published a very good column (for the most part) on the Tenth Amendment movement. However, he just has to get in that one little comment that separates him from the radical states’ rights movement (radical … meaning scholarly and “no surrender”): [...]
Centralizers vs Tenthers on the Economy
“If only D.C. were more like Bejing!” In an article that could have easily been entitled “Abolish the States,” Harold Meyerson of The American Prospect, laments the ways the states have prevented the bureaucrats in D.C. from centralizing even more power. Why? Because the states aren’t draining wealth from their citizens fast enough as the [...]
Intellectual Consistency on the Left? Now That’s What I Call Progress
Even before recent health care nullification efforts, writers at the Tenth Amendment Center were calling for a federalism-driven debate on standard liberal issues like gay marriage, REAL ID, and medical marijuana. Finally, it seems, someone on the Left has recognized the wisdom of that strategy. I almost fell out of my chair this morning upon [...]
Eeek, a Dissident Idea
The most important job of regime intellectuals of all stripes, besides promoting wars past, present, and future, and anything else that enhances the glory, power, and centralization of the state, is to smear opponents. Here Salon attacks Tom DiLorenzo and Tom Woods for dissenting from official history. Of course, mullification orginates with Jefferson and Madison [...]
NY Times Dislikes Anti-Government Movement
The serfs pause in picking the regime’s crops. They raise their heads, and look piercingly at the handsome tax-eater castle on the hill, and wonder about the justice of their plight. The tax-eaters, always unsure of their control over the serfs anyway, grow more nervous, and one of their house organs, the NY Times, expresses [...]
Question With(out) Boldness: In Which Glenn Beck Jumps the Shark
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. – Thomas Jefferson At the risk of being redundant, I must join Michael in pointing out the sheer hypocrisy of Glenn Beck’s hatchet job of a radio [...]
Chris Matthews Smears Debra Medina
Why, she can’t be for (the Principles of 1798 as enunciated in Jefferson and Madison’s Virginia and Kentucky Resolves) nullification and interposition! Who does she think she is, John C. Calhoun? That’s Jim Crow, says the ignorant and evil regime shill Matthews. (Thanks to Travis Holte) cross-posted from the LewRockwell.com Blog
A Question for Glenn Beck on Global Warming and Conspiracy
Glenn: I’m under the impression that you consider the science behind global warming to be inaccurate, and that the efforts to promote it include hiding truth. A grand conspiracy, of sorts. On your TV show in November, 2009, you said: Count them. There’s Jones, Mike, Keith, Gene and Caspar, whoever they are. Potentially deleting emails [...]
States Can’t Nullify, Because I Said So!
Funny to watch the establishment’s reaction to the reappearance of the idea of state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws. This isn’t allowed, of course — the right of Ivy Leaguers to impose their theories on the country shall not be infringed. The extremely conventional Sanford Levinson trots out all the old arguments. My book on [...]
A Few Answers to the DSCC
Last week, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee made some news with a memo of how they plan to “marginalize” republicans with some direct questions. Not that I have any interest in either party, or being involved in office in any way, I still thought it would be interesting to post a few responses. Do you [...]
Repeal the 17th Amendment
Does it seem cold to anyone else right now? I’m sure the answer is yes. More signs that the sub zero temperatures have extended as far down as hell appeared today, or at least what I read in the today’s Huffington Post seemed equally shocking. In Tony Blankley’s latest piece for The Huffington Post he took [...]
Jan 29, 2010 | Categories:Commentary, The Opposition | Tags: 17th Amendment, Decentralization | 5 Comments »