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27 February 2009
You don’t hear much about States Rights these days. The death of some 650,000 Americans in Mr. Lincoln’s war in the early 1860s firmly settled the issue. After wrecking the economy and burning a few cities, the Yankees rode Dixie like a rented mule for many years after. The topic hasn’t come up much since then.
Obama’s desire to nationalize just about everything has got politicians in many states thinking again about their own power and state sovereignty. I find the change refreshing. Twenty-two states have passed or are considering passage of resolutions declaring their sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment of . . . → Read More: Preparing for the next Civil War
28 December 2006
“The practices of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.” ─ Alexander Hamilton
Since the events of 9/11/2001 particularly, but even before that, the shepherds of the Nanny State in Washington, D.C. have been insisting that our safety requires that the shepherds have ever greater authority over us. To keep us safe they need to know every detail of our financial, personal and private lives. We can never be safe until our bank, tax, telephone, internet, credit card, and medical records are fully available to the authorities.
Weapons of Mass . . . → Read More: The Biggest WMD of All
13 July 2005
Liberals demanding Constitutional shelter from big government, like thieves demanding justice, are always good for an ironic chuckle.
Except for the sacred right to kvetch in print, I no more expect to hear the left hollering about Constitutional rights than I expect to see union teachers packing pistols. Once you accept the idea that government should provide protection, education, food, shelter and medicine, you must either ignore the Constitution’s quaint notions of rights, gold and guns, or vilify them as outdated throwbacks to barbarism.
Never the less, the Supreme Court’s loathsome decision in Kelo . . . → Read More: Supreme Ironies
21 February 2005
George II recently described his campaign to bring democracy at gunpoint to the Mesopotamian desert as a “catastrophic success.” Our silver-tounged leader inadvertently hit on the perfect description not only of the results of the Iraqi war, but of most government efforts to improve the world and the people in it.
One of government’s most comprehensive efforts at world improvement, public education, has made headlines lately with yet another study confirming the breath taking ignorance of American high school students — in this case regarding the purpose and application of the First Amendment. This, by the way, is . . . → Read More: Catastrophic Success
1 February 2005
A rash of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuits here in sunny Key West reminded me of the catfish lawyer joke sent to me by my brother-in-law, the attorney.
Question: What’s the difference between an ADA lawyer and a catfish? Answer: One is a scum sucking bottom feeder and the other is a fish.
The ADA is feeding a growing industry of unprincipled lawyers who shakedown thousands of American businesses every year. The 1990 law passed with the usual good intentions. It has since spawned a grotesque modern Hydra of unintended consequences.
The ADA lawsuit industry began in . . . → Read More: Protecting the Ethically Challenged
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