More on the re-emerging doctrine of state nullification
From Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr., via LewRockwell.com: “On Independence Day weekend Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett and I appeared on Freedom Watch, Judge Napolitano’s new program on the FOX Business Network. In the first segment, the Judge and I discussed my new book, Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, which argues that the states have the right to prevent the enforcement of unconstitutional federal laws within their borders. In the second, we were joined by Monica Crowley and Professor Randy Barnett, the latter of whom was skeptical of nullification as a valid constitutional doctrine or a plausible strategy against the growth of federal power….”
The Potemkin Congressman
Paul Hodes, or more likely someone writing as Paul Hodes, took to the safe confines of the Daily Kos to pretend the CD-2 congressman and soon to be private citizen is in fact a vertebrate. That is to say, he went to the socilist progressive locker room to talk smack about the opposing team.
That alone speaks volumes.
So here’s an excerpt, (original KoS Kontent here)
“I’m sick and tired of Democrats getting weak knees every time the right-wing media flexes their muscles.”
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And every time we respond to their attacks with weak knees and cowering in the corner, we give them credibility. Even worse – we encourage them to keep it up. When faced with a bully, we progressives should stand and fight – not run and hide.
Bully? Stand and Fight? Bwahahahahaha!
I’m Batman
A "little bird" suggested to me recently that in New Hampshire congressional district one, there were two candidates driving hard for the attention of the grass roots, Frank Guinta and Sean Mahoney. The comment caught my attention because it was just a tiny bit derisive, as if neither of them even deserved that kind of support. He was obviously backing someone else so I left it alone, but I did find it interesting that he thought Mr. Mahoney was courting the grass roots. Mr. Mahoney never struck me as the grass roots type. I always pictured him as more of an institutional republican, someone like Rich Ashooh; active and connected, has money or knows people with money, with a hint of the K-street ruling class mentality. You know, like Charlie Bass.
I guess I just didn’t recall Sean Mahoney and no offense to whatever his other redeeming qualities might be, courting the roots, the tips, the tea leaves or anything else. But I can’t know everyone, even though I know enough "someone’s" to have second or third hand access to almost everyone in the NH grass roots. Maybe Mr. Mahoney really was trying to make in-roads and was simply not doing a very good job of it? Or maybe I’d missed out on a well hidden patch of Fescue or Rye and there was something to this?
THE RICHES OF OUR RULING CLASS
Huge Salaries Cost California City Officials Their Jobs… WOO HOO!! Get a government job and get IN on it! "BELL, Calif. (July 23) — Three administrators whose huge salaries sparked outrage in this small blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles have agreed to resign, the City Council said Friday. Council members emerged from an hours-long closed session … Read more
Hodes Anoints
Back in April Paul Hodes took the original tack of reminding us that Kelly Ayotte was ‘picked’ by the GOP establishment. It’s a common theme played up by the left so Hodes was just being a good democrat an repeating what he’d been told. I don’t know what Ms. Ayotte, who was essentially picked by … Read more
Want a quick reason why we oppose Progressives?
From a article by Michael Barone, this caught my eye:
But that was no longer the case in 1910. By then, another vision was being advanced, the vision of the Progressives—the vision of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, of political philosophers Herbert Croly and John Dewey.
The Progressives explicitly repudiated the Founders’ vision of limited government. They argued that government needed to redistribute property, to take money from one group of citizens to help others, and to regulate economic activity in ways previously considered unconstitutional. The Constitution, they said, was a “horse and buggy” document, suited perhaps to the simpler society of the 18th century, but dangerously out of date in a complex industrial society which could not expect ordinary citizens to make their way without government guidance and assistance. They were acting, they said, in the interests of the people. Their critics said they were acting out of hunger for power.
At every point, the Progressive ideal is directly opposed to that of the original intent of the Founders:
- Instead of maximum individual freedom, Progressives want subservience to a technocratic elite so as to "better order" society
- Instead of maximum choices made by solely by individuals for themselves and their families, Progressives believe that they have the right and the power to keep people safe from themselves – and limit what people can do on their own
- They denigrate traditional values held dear by most Americans; they dislike the absolute idea of right and wrong, of self-responsibility, and "quaint notion" that charity comes not from a government bureaucrat but from an individual’s heart as a result feeling true compassion towards their friends and neighbors.
- Most Americans believe in a higher Power than themselves and truly accept that their Rights stem directly from our Creator; Progressives crassly dismiss that as superstition, reject the idea that they will be held to account by God, and that one’s Rights are solely a result of superior lobbying by an oppressed victim group.
- Instead of equality before the Law, and in the Rule of Law, they have decided that that what one earns can be taken from them in the name of Social Justice – in other words, you do not own you; rather, you are responsible for providing for the needs of the collective.
GraniteGrok has now endorsed a number of people:
Democrat Deficit Deficit Disorder
How many times have you heard people say, "Well the state can’t print its own money?" Well J-Lynch and the democrats have found a suitable equivalent; just pretend it’s there anyway and call it even. But it’s not enough to just pretend you balanced the budget, you have to follow it up with a cover story and … Read more
Brainstorm: Creating, Running, and Owning Your Own Business is a Fundamental Right.
According to the current chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernake, small businesses employ about half of all Americans. Small business is even more important in a recession, because small businesses tend to lead the way in recoveries by creating about 60% of new jobs. Even more important, new small businesses less than two years old—which … Read more
Real honesty as to the unemployment disaster….
(H/T: Powerline)
Where America Stands on Obama….
Obama’s approval numbers have been on a continuous slide as he and the Democrats attempt to remake America into a socialist country (like the dying welfare states of western Europe). He last saw a 50% approval rating on January 7, 2010. The numbers have been below that ever since. Now we have a state breakdown … Read more
Behind The Curtain
No, we are not surprised to hear that a cabal of media elites (defenders of the ruling class) has been working to co-opt the message and suppress public discourse they do not approve of. From The Daily Caller Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal … Read more
What John Lynch IS Good At
William F. Klessons has stretched credibility to the breaking point. Who is Klessons you ask? He is Salem’s self-styled print equivalent of Keith Olbermann. A Kool-Aid stained liberal apologist and basher of all things to the right of Mussolini in the pages of the Salem Patriot, and the Observer.
Klessons came to my attention when someone sent me a copy of his most recent piece of fiction. In it he proclaims the greatness of Governor Lynch. While everyone is entitled to their opinion Klessons justifies this because of some budget surplus he has imagined, and then lauds the little governor for his business acumen as the catalyst for all the good in the Granite State. Not to knock you off your dung wagon Bill but having no state or income tax is why we are better off than most states and Lynch and the democrats did their best to screw the state up despite that.
What Do You Mean “It’s A Tax?”
I’ve lost track. Is this health care lie number 76 or 176? And how do the boobs at Boo Hoo Hamphsire feel now that the individual mandate rules and fines written into the Health Care bill are being defended by their glorious leader and his Depatment of Injustice as not just a tax, but a … Read more
Read This Now
No, not my latest essay. I’m not that arrogant. I’m referring to (This!) by Angelo M. Codevilla at the American Spectator. Every one should read it. Everyone. Here’s the opening and I will leave you to trust me or not. As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican … Read more
TEA Party – co-opting by The Republican Establishment – or by those seeking its coattails?
Fights aplenty this political year – and not just between the Republicans and Democrats. Simply put, this is shaping up between the Political Class (those that are in high positions within Party or Governmental structures) and those that are governed. Waking up this morning, this was not a pleasant reminder that there are those that put the Constitution first, and then there are those that put themselves and their position/power first:
Any possible shred of doubt remaining in anybody’s mind about former Senate GOP leader Trent Lott’s true allegiance have now been definitively removed: Lott is a paid tool of the Washington Establishment who hates the Tea Party and all other insurgents who have had it with politics-as-usual.
"We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them," Lott told The Washington Post in an incredibly revealing story.
Well, he certainly is confident, isn’t he? Honest, too – I’ll give him that He knows that he’s basically unelectable in the future but is making his $$ as a lobbyist. Like many, he’s taken the attitude of "hey, the TEA Party is just a fad…and we’ll be here afterwards". Certainly,like many, I thought he got a bum’s rush by the hyper-Politically Castraters (even as they protected their own KKK leader, the newly departed Robert Byrd) when he tried to say nice things about Strom Thurmond on his birthday. However, given the above, I’m over it. Good and over it. It rather shows that he and his type are betting that their perches are on solid ground – but is there an incipient earthquake already starting to tremble under their feet?
Sen. Jim DeMint, of course, is the South Carolina conservative Republican who last year formed the Senate Conservatives Fund to back precisely the kind of insurgent conservative Senate candidates most feared by the Lotts of the world.
Lott’s quote points to the all-too-familiar GOP-losers mentality that GOP officials can just go on as they did in the years before they lost their congressional majorities in the Senate and House, talking the talk of limited government but not doing anything concrete or permanent to make it a reality.
They live in denial – they believe that they can outrun what may be heading towards them, which is EXACTLY what polls are saying – they want limited government, limited spending, limited taxation, and limited intrusions into their business and personal lives. Yet, Lott and his ilk are laughing at it.
In New Hamsphire, if you videotape a police officer…
…you may be arrested. And they may prosecute you. And you may go to prison. Think it can’t happen? It’s happening all over the U.S. And New Hampshire has a law similar to the one that a motorcyclist is facing in Maryland. He’s facing 16 years in prison. Here’s the story, and there’s the video … Read more
Shea-Porter’s Money “Don’t know were it came from.”
Money laundering is illegal unless you are in congress. Once you are a member in good standing you earn the privelege of access to a hoard of cash accumulated by the hundreds and hundreds of congressional PAC’s fed by those buying influence. It is money that comes from lobbyists, special interests, the corporate culture of business big and small, unions, fringe groups, mainstream special interests, and everyone else. Carol Shea Porter is a willing recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars over her congressional career from this polluted well, but she would like very badly for to believe that "the money don’t know where it came from."
"The money don’t know" meme is the standard dodge reported ad nuaseum on television and in movies whenever one of our imperfect heroes discovers some stash of drug cash. It’s tainted money, accumulated by thugs and murderers on the lives, weakness, and addictions of others, (just like congress) but as the story goes…it’s ok to take it because the money don’t know where it came from. The heroes resist temptation. Shea Porter is no such hero.
From this mornings Nashua Telegraph, Kevin Landrigan quotes Sheep-Porter’s campaign manager Angela Ruslander as she justifies the paltry 200K in fundraising last quarter.
""Since Carol’s winning campaign in 2006 she has never accepted contributions from D.C. Lobbyists or business PAC’s,…Instead, Carol has always relied on a strong grassroots network. This support ensures that Carol can continue to stand up for Granite State veterans, soldiers, seniors, and middle class families."
Bwahahahahaha! Angela how the hell do you sleep at night?
Ever wonder where this stuff comes from? Here’s the answer.
Have you ever seen the emails being passed around the Internet that seek to demean Wal-Mart and the people who shop there? The ones with the pictures of ugly people supposedly shopping at Wal-Mart? Here’s the start of one I just received from a friend:
"Yes, it’s time for more Walmart Pictures…..brace yourselves!!!"
Here’s the first picture that accompanies the email.
The caption at the bottom of the picture says "Well, it is summer now, which means that we all get to witness more gems like this one."
Notice the "unhappy face" at the lower right of the picture, where it says "People of Walmart"? Why in the world would anyone want to take the time and effort to do this sort of thing? Here’s the second picture of a purported "Wal-Mart shopper" that came with my friend’s email, with the caption below it:
Caption: "Why do I have a feeling Jim Henson is behind her……working her arms?"
These emails seem to have come out of nowhere, and are purportedly "humorous." But of course they are not. There’s much more than that behind them, and a very interesting explanation of the phenomenon. I explain below, and it has nothing to do with "humor."