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Constitution Day: A Day of Deceit

by Michael Boldin | Sep 17, 2015 | Constitution, Eleven Years, Federal Power, Strategy, The Opposition

The Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787. Once ratified, it made law that the powers of government would be limited to those which had been delegated to it – and nothing more. The founders felt so strongly about this principle that a few years later, in...

Left and Right Agree: Don’t Nullify Because it Will Work!

by Mike Maharrey | May 7, 2015 | Eleven Years, Nullification, Nullification, Strategy, The Opposition

From left to right, the mainstream agrees. Don’t nullify. Why? Because it might actually work. Last year, Ian Millhiser, Senior Fellow at the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress Action Fund and Editor of Justice at the...

Mark Levin Doubles Down on James Madison and Nullification. He’s Still Wrong

by Mike Maharrey | Jan 7, 2014 | Eleven Years, Featured, Founding Fathers, Nullification, Nullification, The Opposition

Radio pundit Mark Levin still insists James Madison opposed nullification wholesale despite direct evidence to the contrary. Madison did write several letters and articles in the 1830s that appear on the surface to oppose nullification. But he was addressing a...

A Nullification History Lesson for Jesse Jackson

by Michael Boldin | Oct 18, 2013 | Eleven Years, History, Michael Boldin's Column, Nullification, Nullification, The Opposition

Saul Alinsky, the king of community organizers, once wrote in his book Rules for Radicals that one should “pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” There’s little in American politics that is more polarizing than race, and there’s few better at...

Spalding, Heritage: Wrong on Nullification. Again.

by Mike Maharrey | Aug 4, 2013 | Eleven Years, Featured, Nullification, Nullification, Personal Liberty Laws, The Opposition

When nullification opponents need some conservative cred to back up their arguments, they turn to the Heritage Foundation. And when Heritage needs to smack down nullification, it turns to its big gun – Matthew Spalding, Ph.D., Vice President, American Studies...

February 19, 1942: A Black Stain on American History

by Mike Maharrey | Feb 19, 2013 | Eleven Years, Featured, Tenther 101, The Opposition, War Powers

NOTE: Today marks the anniversary of FDR signing executive order 9066, which authorized the “indefinite detention” of nearly 150,000 people on American soil. The order authorized the Secretary of War and the U.S. Army to create military zones “from which...

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