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Nullification 101: A Intro to Defending Liberty
The federal government is out of control, unable to limit its spending or satisfy its insatiable appetite for consuming the people’s liberties. And these tendencies seem to get worse with each...
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State Non-Compliance is Its Own Penalty
Imagine for a moment that you are a basketball player. The opposing team has the ball and you’re playing defense. What would happen if you turned around to find that the court had doubled in size and...
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San Diego Mayor Calls for Jury Nullification
Don’t look now, but nullification is about to spread to the courtroom. NBC 7 in San Diego reported this week that the city’s mayor, Bob Filner, has called for jurors to refuse to convict the operators...
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Book Review: Reclaiming the American Revolution
After lying dormant for the better part of 150 years, nullification has been gaining momentum in recent years. My own awareness of nullification, the idea that the states have the constitutional right...
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Is Obamacare on Life Support?
Remember a couple of months ago when the Obama administration sent letters to four states promising to use federal agents to enforce Obamacare if the states failed to? Well, it appears that smug...
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Federal Laws: To Infinity and Beyond!
How many federal laws are on the books? 500? 1,000? 5,000? Go ahead, take a guess.Give up?Yeah, well, so does the Library of Congress. In an attempt to answer the frequent question of how many...
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Federalism is for Liberals
In a recent article in The Atlantic, Emily Bazelon makes the claim that “states’ rights are for liberals”, citing the examples of state support for marriage equality and the legalization of marijuana...
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Spying on Kids to Improve Education?
Bill Gates has an idea. In order to improve academic performance, teachers should be monitored all day, every day. A preposterous waste of resources and manpower, you say? Well, not to worry,...
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Jackson County, Michigan Passes 2nd Amendment Preservation Resolution
By a 9-0 vote on June 18, the County Commissioners in Jackson County, Michigan unanimously approved a resolution in support of the 2nd Amendment.The resolution promises to reject any attempt by the...
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Abortion: A State Issue, a National Nightmare
News broke recently that Florida Senator Marco Rubio plans to sponsor a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks. With Rubio’s reputation recently taking a hit in conservative circles, a cynic...
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Some Utah Republicans Get It, Some Don’t
Some sentences are so contradictory, so self-evidently oxymoronic that they stop you in your tracks. For example, maybe you have a friend who says something like, “I’m a vegetarian, but I really love...
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Founders Turning in Their Graves
“A republic, madam, if you can keep it.”So said the ever-quotable Benjamin Franklin upon emerging from the Constitutional Convention debates in 1787. Franklin’s now-famous statement to an inquisitive...
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Political Pressure is Like Real Estate
I have a confession. I’m not one of those suave guys who always does everything right. I once put diesel fuel in my car only to find out that diesel fuel and unleaded gasoline are not...
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A Long History of Constitutional War Power Violations
Barack Obama is clearly not the first president to ignore the framers’ intent regarding the executive’s war powers. In many ways Obama is merely building upon the framework of George W. Bush, whose...
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Has Eric Cantor Read the Constitution?
Virginia Republican Congressman Eric Cantor met with President Obama on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Syria. Shortly after his conference with the president, Cantor released a statement saying,...
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Wisconsin Nullifies Park Service Shutdown Order
Scott Walker is at it again.The governor of Wisconsin, who has previously publicly stated his intention to resist Obamacare, had his state’s Department of Natural Resources reject federal requests to...
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A Lesson from the “Shutdown”
We have entered week two of the federal government’s “shutdown” and, amazingly, Americans are still hanging in there. This is a fact that has chagrined federal politicians to no end. In an effort to...
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Governor Kasich Loves Obamacare
You have to love Ohio politicians. Some of them are the only people on earth unprincipled enough to make Massachusetts politicians blush.Now it appears that John Kasich, Ohio’s Republican governor,...
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Is Allen West why the Constitution is in Tatters?
Tweens and Justin Bieber’s music.Anyone and the Kardashians’ TV shows.There are some people who are extremely popular with the masses, but whose appeal I just can’t see.Here’s another one. The tea...
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Esquire Whiffs Again
You have to give Esquire’s Charles P. Pierce credit. He’s consistent.He’s also wrong. Conspicuously, unrepentantly wrong. But at least he’s consistent.We first encountered (and refuted) Pierce a...
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