VA Senate Kills Intrastate Commerce Act Without a Vote
Another year, another trip to the Senate Death Star for the Intrastate Commerce Act (HB1438). Without even recording a vote, the elected “representatives” on the Senate Commerce and Labor Sub-Committee #1 left Virginia residents and businesses exposed to the economic and regulatory ravages of every federal agency from the EPA to the FDA to the BATF. When will [...]
Taking America back
I rarely find anything worth my time in the mainstream press, but this letter to the editor in the Washington Times is not just good, but worthy of repetition. I hope that more people will follow James Vetter’s example, and write their own paper with a similar sentiment. Here’s an excerpt: The first order of [...]
The Political Inquisition Begins
If this article doesn’t frighten you, it’s probably because you aren’t doing anything that really threatens to limit big government. As I read this article, a sinking feeling started to develop in the pit of my stomach. Is this what happens when patriotic citizens and state legislators begin to actually challenge entrenched RINOs and upset [...]
Think Nationally, Act Locally
Varg Freeborn, president of the Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) chapter at Youngstown State University in Ohio, had no idea the levels that his local government would stoop to in order to not only deprive him of his rights but also to silence any public protest. The City of Campbell enacted an ordinance in January [...]
Why I Care About the Constitution
The debates that one sees in the comments sections and forums these days is a fascinating mix. Everyone in DC sat down in a new chair 2 years ago and so it’s easy to get the sense that our political world is in flux, with progressives bashing Obama and conservatives nodding their heads at the [...]
Can we make it stop?
Late last year, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) was asked about the constitutionality of the pending Obamacare legislation. He answered that “most of the stuff we do is not authorized by the Constitution.” Not a surprise to anyone paying attention, and a bit of a lowball estimate, IMHO. The extraordinary thing about this was that it [...]
Health Care Freedom in Colorado?
Last Thursday morning, Amy Oliver who is a talk show host on am 1310 KFKA was gracious enough to have me on to talk about the Constitution, the Health care mandate, and the Health Freedom Rally that was held in Greeley on Friday night. The rally was well attended and the speakers did a great [...]
Tea Party Crashers
From reading this article on the “crash the tea party” movement, http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/13-7 it seems obvious what Mr. Levin thinks about the population at large. It seems that he believes we all walk around wearing Nazi uniforms and spewing racial hatred. He can’t have been to a Tea Party rally before because he would have had [...]
Independent Thinkers Needed
Thomas Jefferson was the epitome of independent thinking and was a political genius. His genius was his true understanding of human nature. Jefferson knew how groups of people that fomented mob mentality were a danger to individual liberty. He was a man of faith but knew how allowing the men of cloth to dominate political [...]
5 Positives from Obamacare’s Passage
Understandably so, many of those who consider themselves to be conservative or libertarian in philosophy have felt disheartened by the passage of Obamacare. Even though I saw it coming for some time, I share in everyone’s being upset with our leaders and their actions. But I am here to tell you that not all that [...]
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 [...]
Strategy Discussion
I wrote the following for THE NEW AMERICAN: This is the first FFA in the nation where federal officials could be criminally prosecuted for trying to enforce federal firearms laws. While that might sound good to some, the states need to be cautious about appearing as the aggressor. One false move could tarnish the state [...]
The Overton Window: Two Concepts for Activists
Introduction In this essay, we will look at two ideas which effect nullification and Tenth Amendment efforts in America today. One of these ideas, the idea of incentives, is familiar to all of us. Another idea, the Overton window, may be less familiar. Incentives People are influenced by incentives. As Dr. Perry often writes at the [...]
Out of Control and Back Again
The prospect for a better future can never be realized if we continue to set our eyes on a central “authority” to fix this mess. This current economic and political mess was created because we took our collective “eye” off of the US Constitution and turned the focus on politicians in Washington DC. Since FDR [...]
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 [...]
The Real Truth About the 10th Amendment Movement
Every level of centralized government that is broken down gives average Americans more control over what they put in their bodies, where they go and how they choose to spend their earnings. Every layer of authoritarian control traps within it a bevy of natural rights and we are quite simply empowering average people to take back what is their birthright.
The Patriots’ Trident
“Somebody ought to do something!” “I’m tired of shouting at my TV but what am I to do? Write a letter? Send an email? A fax? What for? “They” don’t care about us and they’re not listening!” “What are we supposed to do?” Sound familiar? Well, Patriots, there’s not one thing you can do—there are [...]
Obama is not lying, but he thinks he is.
All the pundits are blasting Obama for his comments this week declaring similarities between the momentum that brought him the Presidency and the momentum that brought Scott Brown to the Senate. Obama said: “Here’s my assessment of not just the vote in Massachusetts but the mood around the country: The same thing that swept Scott [...]
“Hope 2.0″: Left and Right United Against DC
“What we need is Hope 2.0: the realization that our system is too broken to be fixed by politicians, however well intentioned – that change is going to have to come from outside Washington.” -Arianna Huffington 1/19/10
Is Liberty Doomed?
Recently, Republican Congressman Tom Rooney from Florida’s 16th congressional district filed HR 1006, which is a statement of support for the 10th amendment to the Constitution. While I agree with Congressman Rooney that Congress should respect the 10th amendment and states’ rights, I find it disquieting that Congress needs to pass a bill that is [...]
Virginia 10th Amendment Rally Draws 2,400 to the Capitol Grounds
Yesterday, I joined a record-breaking Lobby Day crowd of Virginians at the steps of the bell tower on Richmond’s Capitol Grounds. I had the privilege to be one of the speakers who addressed the gathering on topics like the Tenth Amendment and its fundamental importance in our American system of divided sovereignty. They didn’t need [...]
VA Intrastate Commerce Act up for key vote tomorrow
If we choose to exercise it, the Tenth Amendment explicitly gives us the power to enforce the Constitution’s letter and spirit through political action, regardless of the opinions and preferences of the ruling class.
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