Who Would Protect Us?
Written by Joel Poindexter If there were no government police, protection services would be provided like any other. Yesterday, Tom Woods posted this video on the LRC blog. Decades of corruption and ineptitude in the Detroit Police Department, along with the failures endemic to a government-monopolized service, meant residents were desperate for protection services. So [...]
A Basic Civics Lesson for Pseudo-Historians
I need a civics lesson. This according to the keepers of acceptable opinion at two divergent publications. Both The Economist and the Montgomery Advertiser recently ran opinion pieces skewering nullification, specifically state efforts to block unconstitutional federal gun laws in Kansas and Alabama. Interestingly, both the author of The Economist piece and the editorial bored over at the Alabama newspaper [...]
Common Core: An Attack on Freedom and What to Do About it
Written by debra goodwin So what is happening in our education system? We reviewed a discussion of this topic with a representative of the American Principals Project. And here are just some of the anti-constitutional and Orwellian goings on. What is this Common Core about? It is about the ideal of collective thought, your children [...]
How Much Control Does Supremacy Clause Give Feds? – Andrew Nappi #N3
Published on May 8, 2013 Stream: http://NextNewsNetwork.com Facebook: http://Facebook.com/NextNewsNet Twitter: http://Twitter.com/NextNewsNet Sub: http://bit.ly/Sub-to-N3 Hashtag: #N3 Earlier this year, Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas signed into law a measure that would forbid federal officials from enforcing anti-gun laws in that state. On April 26, Attorney General Eric Holder wrote a letter to Governor Brownback insisting that [...]
Obama Pursues Gun Control via Executive Action After Senate Blow
Written by Alex Newman in The New American In the wake of a humiliating defeat for gun-control advocates in the Senate last month, President Obama and a coalition of allied anti-Second Amendment extremists vowed not to give up the fight. Unlike its failure in keeping many promises, however, the administration is already making good [...]
On Target Pressure Points: Militarized Police
Published on May 7, 2013 In conjunction with the upcoming release of his new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, John W. Whitehead sits down to discuss several “pressure points” that are threatening the Bill of Rights and undermining our essential freedoms. In part one of this special series, Whitehead examines [...]
CS/CS/HB 1355 – Purchase of Firearms by Mentally Ill Persons-Analysis by Paul Henry
Analysis by Paul Henry The bill basically says if a voluntary commitment would have been involuntary, then the notification kicks in. This of course provides a great deal of leeway for physicians. See II (B) above, red text. I did not find any language in the bill regarding the 5-year period certificate. There is existing [...]
Sheriff Bradshaw and the Palm Beach County Psihuska
Written by Will Grigg “What does it hurt,” asked Sheriff Ric Bradshaw of Florida’s Palm Beach County, “to have somebody knock on the door and ask, ‘Hey, is everything OK?’” The answer to that question obviously depends on the identity of the “Somebody” who is making that inquiry. What Sheriff Bradshaw had in mind was a strike force [...]
Disposing the Doctrine of Judicial Supremacy
Written by Walt Garlington In addition to Robert Nagel’s column on rejecting judicial remedies for our political disagreements (posted earlier on the Tenther blog), National Review Online has also treated us to two columns by Prof. Robert Lowry Clinton. The first, “Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution,” disposes of the doctrine of judicial supremacy by looking at the Supreme [...]
Paul Henry Analyzes Florida’s DHSMV Omnibus bill and finds it UNFRIENDLY to LIBERTY
Here is my analysis of the red light device portions (Secs. 5-8) of the DHSMV Omnibus bill. I will link the latest enrolled version (#940416 5/2/13 @ 1:35 AM) that has passed the House & Senate here: http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/7125/Amendment/940416/PDF There was only 1 “no” vote on this bill: Rep. Betty Reed (D), Dist. 61, Hillsborough. Omnibus [...]
Yes, There Is a Correct Way to Interpret the Constitution
Published on May 2, 2013 Bestselling author Tom Woods talks to Prof. Brion McClanahan, author of The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution, about what the U.S.Constitution really means. http://www.LibertyClassroom.com http://www.TomWoods.com
Florida Update: Concealed Carry Permits Up, Violent Crime Down
Written by Bob Adelmann The recent report from ABC News that in Florida, where there are more concealed weapons permits than anywhere else in the country, violent crime has dropped to the lowest point in history, delighted Sean Caranna, executive director of Florida Carry, Inc. “We’re happy to have facts and statistics put into these debates, because every [...]
Shadow Lobbying and Liberty Lobbying
A friend forwarded a lengthy opinion piece called The Shadow Lobbyist to us, and after reading through it, one very obvious conclusion could be made: There is a lot of money involved in (for this case) federal lobbying. One firm alone reported $22 million in 2007, which had declined to “only” $13 million in 2012. Reading [...]
REPUBLICANS JUST DON’T GET IT ON GUN CONTROL
Written by Laurence M. Vance Because of the horrific nature of the shooting last year at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut — a shooting in which 26 people were shot dead (most of them children) — the subject of gun control has been in the news ever since like never before. It [...]
Understanding The 10th Amendment
Written by jim kearney in Tenth Amendment Center.com The “winners” write the history, and always in favor of their side of the “argument”. Government’s job is to “control” the people. Control takes power and power comes at a price: the people’s liberty. In a nutshell, government power stands as the enemy of liberty. And when it comes [...]
Florida poised to become first state with anti-drone law
Bill would require state police to obtain warrants for drone use in most situations.. Computerworld - A Florida bill that would impose restrictions on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, by state law enforcement officials is one signature away from becoming the first law of its kind in the country. On Wednesday, Florida’s [...]
Systematic House-to-House Raids in Locked-Down Watertown, Massachusetts
Published on Apr 22, 2013 WATERTOWN, MA — On Friday, April 19, 2013, the small Boston suburb of Watertown was completely locked down. Governor Deval Patrick ordered that people stay in their homes and that businesses close, as droves of police and soldiers closed down the city. Roads were blocked off, vehicles were prohibited from driving [...]
Three Years Later, an 80 Percent REAL ID Rejection Rate
While at the Capital today, John Hallman and I were walking to an appointment and I saw the DHSMV driver license table was in the lobby again. I had photographed it recently when I saw a couple of guys unsuccessfully trying to renew their licenses. Today was a slow day, as only one employee was there and [...]
Totalitarian
Written by Joel Poindexter There’s really no other word that would accurately describe the behavior of the many agencies that stormed through Boston and its suburbs this week. Thousands of State and local police, sheriff’s deputies, FBI SWAT employees, Homeland Security Shock Troops, and National Guard [...]
‘We Don’t Cower in Fear’: Reconsidering the Boston Lockdown
Written by WENDY KAMINER in The Atlantic What does it say if Americans further cut back on basic freedoms in response to last week’s bombings? And do any of us seriously think we won’t? Some of the stories we tell about ourselves in the aftermath of terror are true. Many people react reflexively with bravery and [...]
FL SUPREME COURT DENIES AG Pam Bondi’s ATTEMPT TO KILL RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS QUESTION
From the 1787 Radio Network http://floridacarry.org/litigation/21-statecourt/70-norman-v-state On Friday, April 19, 2013, Florida’s Supreme Court denied a motion by the State Attorney to prohibit the Fourth District Court of Appeals from considering the appeal of a Concealed Carry Licensee who was convicted of violating Florida’s Open Carry Ban and answering three questions which the county court [...]
A Threat to National Security or Public Safety
Posted on April 22, 2013 The title for this posting was clipped from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) page regarding deferred action letters. I’ve written about them on my companion REAL ID site after the Florida Legislature went into overdrive to give driver licenses to illegal aliens while providing no relief to citizens. The letters are basically [...]
Liberty First Network-YOUR Choice To Have A VOICE Has Arrived
Dear Florida Tenth Amendment Center Readers and Friends; I am pleased to tell you about a new weapon in the fight for liberty–Liberty First Network. Liberty First Network was established with one principle: To place Liberty first! The Liberty First Network mission is to restore the voice of the people in government through education and advocacy. While there [...]
Did REAL ID Stop These Terrorists?
Cross-posted from http://liberty2010.org/realidblog/?p=791 The news today is the Boston bombing was the work of two young Russians, one of whom was killed in a police shootout. I was sad to hear an officer lost his life in the apprehension, reportedly in an ambush, and another was listed as seriously wounded. Please pray for these officers [...]
