by William E. Morris, DelawareOnline.com The infamous $700 billion bailout is a symbol of the incompetence of big government. It results from previous government actions that have caused a recession, and threaten a depression. The bail-out to the risk we already had of severe inflation and a financial catastrophe. What if we started over to [...]
Dec 29, 2008 | Categories:Federalism | Tags: 10th Amendment, Constitution, Government |
by Rep Ron Paul Billions of dollars were recently lost in the collapse of Bernie Madoff’s self-described Ponzi scheme, in which too-good-to-be-true returns on investments were not really returns at all, but the funds of defrauded new investors. The pyramid scheme collapsed dramatically when too many clients called in their accounts, and not enough new [...]
Dec 24, 2008 | Categories:Government | Tags: Government, madoff, ponzi scheme, Ron Paul, Social Security |
by Greg Heller, The Holy Cause Does the “liberal” Obama respect the Constitution more than the “conservative” Bush? From the Contra Costa Times: After months of battling with the Bush administration, California may be close to getting permission from the federal government to set its own standards for tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks. President-elect [...]
Dec 21, 2008 | Categories:State Sovereignty | Tags: 10th Amendment, bush, environment, greenhouse gas, obama, pollution, State Sovereignty |
Robert Sharpe, Policy Analyst for Common Sense for Drug Policy, makes the point pretty clear in this letter to the Sheboygan Press: While there have been studies showing that marijuana can shrink cancerous tumors, medical marijuana is essentially a palliative drug. If a doctor recommends marijuana to a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy and it helps [...]
Dec 18, 2008 | Categories:Drug War | Tags: 10th Amendment, Drug War, marijuana, medical-marijuana, State Sovereignty, war-on-drugs |
by Rep Ron Paul The freedom to fail is an essential part of freedom. Government- provided financial security necessitates relinquishing the very essence of freedom. Last week, the big 3 American automakers came back to Capitol Hill with their hands out to the government. Congress spent this past week debating how much money to give [...]
Dec 15, 2008 | Categories:Economy | Tags: Economy, freedom, Government, Ron Paul, socialism |
by Clarence B. Carson, Fee.org Several developments have contributed to making the meaning of federalism obscure. Some are old, some recent. Some may be more or less innocent; others are destructive of federalism itself. One of these that may be more or less innocent is the habit of referring to the United States government as [...]
Dec 08, 2008 | Categories:Federalism | Tags: Constitution, Federalism, Government, State Sovereignty |
by David Gordon, Mises.org The dedication of Restoring the Lost Constitution, “To James Madison and Lysander Spooner,” at once alerts us that we confront an unusual book. During the Constitutional Convention, Madison supported a strong national government; Spooner, by contrast, subjected to withering criticism the notion that the people of the United States had consented [...]
Dec 01, 2008 | Categories:Liberty | Tags: Barnett, Constitution, Founding Fathers, Government, James Madison, Lysander Spooner, Restoring the Lost Constitution |
