Real ID: A Threat to Security
Guest Commentary by Brian Trent There’s a lesson in the Aesopian tale of the man who wanted to cook a frog. When he tossed the amphibian into a pot of boiling water, it leapt out to safety. The thwarted cook then changed tactics. He placed the frog in cold water… and slowly brought up the [...]
REAL ID: Opposition in Tennesssee
A Letter from a Reader: Why this Conservative Tennessean Opposes REAL ID 1. REAL ID is a de facto national identification card. At least Lamar Alexander, in recent comments, was honest enough to admit this. Has America sacrificed so much for freedom only to create a “papers please†society? 2. REAL ID does an end-run [...]
States Rights and REAL Id
Guest Commentary by Thomas Andrew Olson Published with Permission from LewRockwell.com Recently, I watched Lou Dobbs, and his handmaiden, Kitty Pilgrim, get all hot, bothered, and appalled by the Maine state legislature voting overwhelmingly to refuse to enforce any provisions of the REAL ID act, an unfunded mandate passed by Congress in 2005, and which [...]
REAL IDiocy
Guest Commentary by Becky Akers Published with Permission from LewRockwell.com Maine’s state legislature “RESOLVED” almost unanimously last week that it will “refuse… to implement the REAL ID Act….” As if that weren’t enough, it “implores the United States Congress to repeal the REAL ID Act…” What? Go ahead and re-read it. Took me a few [...]
Unconstitutional Legislation Threatens Freedoms
by Rep. Ron Paul Last week, the House of Representatives acted with disdain for the Constitution and individual liberty by passing HR 1592, a bill creating new federal programs to combat so-called “hate crimes.” The legislation defines a hate crime as an act of violence committed against an individual because of the victim’s race, religion, [...]
May 09, 2007 | Categories:Liberty | Tags: crime, Enumerated Powers, enumerated-power, Federalism, Guest Commentary, hate-crimes, Limited Government, Ron Paul, State Sovereignty, tenth-amendment | 6 Comments »