State resistance to REAL ID is growing. The Associated Press reports from New Hampshire: The New Hampshire Legislature took a baby step Tuesday toward rejecting what they say amounts to the creation of a national ID card. The House Transportation Committee voted unanimously to recommend barring the state from complying with the federal REAL ID [...]
Mar 21, 2007 | Categories:Activism | Tags: 10th Amendment, bill-of-rights, Constitution, constitutional-amendments, Enumerated Powers, national-id, new-hampshire, Positive Grant, Real ID, State Sovereignty, tenth-amendment |
The war on drugs continues unabated. As the New York Times recently reported: Frustrated by government policy and inaction, a group of advocates for medical marijuana sued two federal health agencies on Wednesday over the assertion that smoking it has no medical benefit. The group, Americans for Safe Access, a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, [...]
Mar 13, 2007 | Categories:Drug War | Tags: dea, Drug War, drug-enforcement-agency, Enumerated Powers, marijuana, medical-marijuana, ninth-amendment, State Sovereignty, tenth-amendment |
President Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative has reached the Supreme Court. As reported in the Christian Science Monitor: President Bush’s faith-based initiative is a signature program of his administration. But not all Americans share the president’s belief that the government should work in close partnership with religious organizations willing to perform nonreligious public services, like running homeless [...]
Mar 05, 2007 | Categories:Government | Tags: 10th Amendment, Constitution, Enumerated Powers, Faith-Based Initiative, government-funding, government-programs, socialism, Taxation, Welfare, welfare-state |
