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Traitors to the American Revolution

By on November 4, 2009 in Featured, Founding Fathers, History

The American Revolution was waged against a highly centralized, nationalistic, governmental tyranny…

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Restraining Tyranny

By on June 27, 2008 in Federalism

As all major politicians move more and more towards centralization as the solution to virtually every problem in this country, there’s no greater need to start looking back to America’s founding principles of state sovereignty, argues Clay Barham at PopulistAmerica.com

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The United States Are, or The United States Is?

By on February 4, 2008 in Government

Guest Commentary by David Smith I have been pleasantly surprised by the Walt Disney Corporation’s recent foray into making decent movies, namely with the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and ‘National Treasure’ franchises.  I would like to draw attention to a particular line of significance in the most recent release in these lines, ‘National Treasure:  Book [...]

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Governors lose in power struggle over National Guard

By on January 12, 2007 in State Sovereignty

From Stateline.org: A little-noticed change in federal law packs an important change in who is in charge the next time a state is devastated by a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina. To the dismay of the nation’s governors, the White House now will be empowered to go over a governor’s head and call up National [...]

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