Welcome to the Constitutional Crisis
Past rulings indicate that judges are, as Jefferson warned, simply people too; with political ambitions and a willingness to apply arbitrary opinions over rule-of-law. In fact, Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, the most recent Supreme Court appointee, publicly argued the merits of rulings based on social justice over rule-of-law. Can an idea be any more dangerous to liberty than that?
Obamacare? We Should Have Seen You Coming
The only way forward is to nullify through the statehouses. If we are to pull this one out, we will have to nullify this law. There is no other option.
My Response to the Census
This letter was sent to the Census bureau on 03-19-10. Â To date, no response has been received.
The American Pipe Dream
Turn your attention to your state house and demand your legislators draft nullification legislation, and begin the winning process of ignoring the federal government. It’s time the States entered the room.
The Census and the Constitution
The Census Bureau tells us that this year, it will use a shorter questionnaire, consisting of only 10 questions. From what I see, only one of them serves the constitutional purpose of enumeration
The Unconstitutional Census Gestapo
Why does the U.S. Census Bureau not only ask unconstitutional and personal questions, but demand that they be answered? Why in fact do these same cretins threaten anyone who doesn’t comply with their Gestapo-style tactics?
“Race To The Top” is fixed: just say No!
The Obama administration’s “Race To The Top†(RTTT) stimulus grant program should really be called the “Race to Nationalize Educationâ€. Like the Bush administration’s “No Child Left Behind†program, it is nothing but another measure designed to enable the central government to take over control of our local schools and establish a government of occupation in the territory that exists between our children’s ears.
About the 2010 Elections: Principles vs Shallow Rhetoric
This time, we need to set the stage right, and we need to demand specific answers to specific questions. “I’m not a lawyer,†“Let me get back to you,†and changing the subject will not cut it this time around.
Now the Left Opposes (!) Confrontational Tactics
I’ve seen a lot of political hypocrisy in my lifetime, but the Left griping about confrontational tactics has got to be some kind of record. Of course, leftists have no problem with strong-arming when they do the strong-arming.
REAL ID by Any Other Name Stinks As Bad
Just as they did with REAL ID, the Feds insist that PASS ID is not a national ID – oh, my, no. So what if every American has a uniform card that he must constantly show to government’s goons? That’s not a national ID, you silly citizen, you!
PASS ID: National ID v3.0?
Regardless of whether you felt REAL ID represented critical improvements in security standards or a federal government ID system outsourced upon the states, Secretary Napolitano recently affirmed that, at least by name, that Title II of the Act was dead
Should Congress Impose Health Care on Us?
As the Senate and House of “Representatives†deliberate whether to give even more control over your health care to bureaucrats, ask yourself what taxation with representation has wrought.
Massachusetts Sues Feds Under the 10th Amendment
Massachusetts, which legalized same-sex marriages in 2004, claims that the federal definition of marriage under DOMA violates its authority under the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution to define marriage as it sees fit.
Real ID on its way Out
Yielding to a rebellion by states that refused to pay for it, the Obama administration is moving to scale back a federal law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that was designed to tighten security requirements for driver’s licenses, Homeland Security Department and congressional officials said.
Moving Towards Tobacco Prohibition
Last week, another bill was passed and signed into law that takes more of our freedoms and violates the Constitution of the United States.
It was, of course, done for the sake of the children, and in the name of the health of the citizenry. It’s always the case that when your liberty is seized, it is seized for your own good. Such is the condescension of Washington.
If It’s Broke, Don’t Fix It
If it ain’t broke you shouldn’t fix it. But in this case – if the federal Highway Trust Fund is going broke, the best thing may be to let it stay that way and put states back in control.
New Hampshire: Sovereignty over Marriage
New Hampshire on Wednesday became the sixth U.S. state to authorize gay marriage, deepening a New England niche for same-sex weddings and the spending that comes with them.
Real ID in Oregon? Lawmakers say No!
Today, the Oregon State House passed Senate Bill 536 (SB0536), which “Prohibits state from expending funds to comply with federal Real ID Act of 2005 unless certain requirements are met.”
The Bill, which passed by a vote of 39-6 also “Directs Department of Transportation to analyze cost of complying with Real ID Act of 2005 and make report available to public.”
Thoughts on Sovereignty
During the decades leading up to the American Revolution, the major European powers of that age jousted for the rights to the spoils of the new world. The American Colonials were little more than pawns to be sacrificed back and forth for minor gains for their mother countries. Often, after great hardship and bloodshed, the European powers would sign treaties returning things to pre-conflict states, which meant that what had been won or lost was irrelevant and the death and sacrifice of the colonial militias for king and country was all in vain.
Tenth Amendment Showdown
The very recent revival of the Tenth Amendment on both popular and political landscapes has underscored the ever-present demarcation between liberty and statism. It has also brought to light an interesting demarcation within the group of liberty-minded anti-statists.
Obama and US Congress: maybe REAL ID needs changes
Congress and the Obama administration are considering ceding key ground in a long-running battle between the federal government and the states over Real ID, the 4-year-old federal program that requires all states to start issuing more secure driver’s licenses by the end of the year. Proposed legislation being circulated on Capitol Hill would give states more time, flexibility and money to meet federal Real ID requirements.
Turning the Constitution on its Head
With its decision in Nordyke v. King last week, in which the recent Supreme Court Heller decision was applied to state law, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took another step down the long road of “incorporating†the Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. In doing so, it continued down the path toward completely inverting the model of government to which The People agreed when they ratified the Constitution.
Recrossing the Rubicon
Few Americans today understand the concept of ‘separation of powers,’ and fewer still are willing to defend it during times of crisis, whether real or manufactured. Yet, it may help to remind them that James Madison, the author of the Constitution and president of the United States, said he had structured a system to be run by devils, where they could do no harm.
