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Latest Articles: U.S. Constitution
“Official Notice of Dispute” Filed with New Hampshire Attorney General on Four Presidential Candidates’ Eligibility (Rubio, Cruz, Jindal, Santorum)
Post Date: 2015-11-14 17:57:34 by Hondo68
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New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster took office in May 2013. New Hampshire’s attorney general is appointed by the governor rather than elected by the people.(Nov. 13, 2015) — [Editor's Note: The following email was sent to Attorney General Joseph Foster on November 13, 2015.]From: Robert LaitySent: Friday, November 13, 2015 5:17 AMTo: New Hampshire Board of Elections ; Joseph Foster, Attorney General of New Hampshire Subject: Fw: OFFICIAL NOTICE OF DISPUTE; AS TO the Non Bona Fides of FOUR Republican Candidates for Presidency of the United States of America From: Robert LaitySent: Friday, November 13, 2015 5:13 AMTo: electionlaw@doj.nh.gov ; Joseph Foster, Attorney ...
States Don’t Have to Comply: The Anti-Commandeering Doctrine
Post Date: 2015-11-09 19:06:04 by tpaine
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tenthamendmentcenter.com States Don’t Have to Comply: The Anti-Commandeering Doctrine Most Americans believe that the federal government stands absolutely supreme. Nobody can question its dictates. Nobody can refuse its edicts. Nobody can resist its commands. This is simply not true. Laws passed in pursuance of the Constitution do stand as the supreme law of the land. But that doesn’t in any way imply the federal government lords over everything and everybody in America. First off, as James Madison asserted in Federalist 45, the powers of the federal government are “few and defined.” So federal power actually extends into only a few spheres. Most power and ...
MARK LEVIN: ‘DESTROY-THE-CONSTITUTION’ TPP DEAL WOULD ALLOW OBAMA TO ‘TAKE US TO FAST TRACK TO HELL’
Post Date: 2015-11-09 14:04:24 by tpaine
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www.breitbart.com MARK LEVIN: ‘DESTROY-THE-CONSTITUTION’ TPP DEAL WOULD ALLOW OBAMA TO ‘TAKE US TO FAST TRACK TO HELL’ Mark Levin by Tony Lee9 Nov 20151,761 Conservative talk radio host and scholar Mark Levin says no conservative in Congress should vote for the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, which he referred to as a “destroy-the-Constitution deal” that would enable President Barack Obama to take “us to the fast track to hell.” Speaking to host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125, Levin said that even people “who are required to comply with it are not going ...
State Law Makes it a Felony to Touch a Police Officer Even Off-Duty and Out of Uniform
Post Date: 2015-11-03 08:27:51 by Deckard
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Two short-tempered men run into each other in a bar in Enid, Oklahoma. The combustible mixture of alcohol and ego produces the predictable reaction – a brief, stupid, and inconclusive fight in which neither side is seriously injured. When police officers arrive on the scene, onlookers expect that both parties to the altercation will be hauled away in handcuffs.However, after one of them produces a police credential, he is allowed to handcuff the other and place him under arrest for a felonious assault on an off-duty law enforcement officer. It doesn’t matter that the individual making the arrest might have been the same one who started the fight.This scenario is made entirely ...
Drinking and Driving vs. Drunk Driving
Post Date: 2015-11-03 08:11:23 by Deckard
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It is important to make distinctions. To know exactly what we are talking about before we “do something” about it. For instance, drinking and driving and drunk driving. There is a distinction to be made here. An important one. Why on earth should it be illegal – a crime – merely to have been drinking and driving? Emphasis on merely. Put another way, why should it be a punishable offense to have been drinking when one’s driving can’t be faulted? Unless of course the object of the exercise is to impose a kind of low-rent Prohibition – to punish people for drinking – this makes no sense at all. But it does seem to be the object of ...
Law Enforcement: Traveling From Anywhere To Anywhere Is Suspicious Behavior
Post Date: 2015-11-01 14:37:59 by Deckard
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from the a-nation-of-300-million-drug-dealers dept Want to travel from anywhere to anywhere in the United States without being hassled by law enforcement officers? Good luck with that, citizen. USA Today's Brad Heath pointed out an interesting footnote in an asset forfeiture filing that made the assertion that traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles is inherently suspicious. (One presumes the opposite is also true.) If you can't see the embed, the government's footnoted assertion reads: Chicago is a known consumer city for narcotics and Los Angeles is a known source city where narcotics can be purchased. Also of note: suspect had a backpack, an item used to carry stuff -- ...
Judge says drone was invading the privacy of the man who shot it (case dismissed)
Post Date: 2015-10-29 21:21:34 by Hondo68
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William Merideth, the man from Kentucky who shot down a drone earlier this year, told WDRB that he felt vindicated after a district judge dismissed the charges against him, even if the accuser can still take the case before a grand jury. He was originally charged for firing his gun within city limits, but the judge has decided on Monday that the drone invaded his privacy, giving him the right to shoot it. The judge came to that conclusion after two witnesses testified that the UAV flew below the tree line of Merideth's property. However, the Phantom 3 drone's owner and pilot, David Boggs, provided Ars Technica with a video back in August showing that his machine was flying 200 feet ...
Abolish All DUI Laws!
Post Date: 2015-10-28 06:02:34 by Deckard
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I start this article by congratulating you for having the courage to read past the scary title. Many people sadly don’t possess such intellectual courage.[1] Although you probably think I’m crazy and irresponsible for even suggesting we repeal all DUI laws, at least you are willing to invest the time necessary to learn why I suggest such a monstrously scary idea as simply abolishing all DUI laws. Additionally, I suggest we replace such DUI laws with absolutely nothing. Before I proceed with convincing you we can and should abolish all DUI laws, I invite you to ponder the concept of a paradigm shift. Because I expect to persuade you to my position, I am ...
Does Government Need A Good Reason For Restricting Your Freedom?
Post Date: 2015-10-27 08:33:56 by tpaine
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www.forbes.com Does Government Need A Good Reason For Restricting Your Freedom? The U.S. flag flies in front of the Supreme Court building. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg That is the question our courts must often deal with. Many judges don’t think it does; they adhere to the idea that unless a law or regulation blatantly violates what they regard as a “fundamental” right, they should brush aside challenges to it. On the other hand, some judges take an aggressive stance toward laws and regulations that take away people’s property, impede their ability to engage in legitimate commerce, restrict their freedom of speech, or interfere with their rights to defend ...
New health overhaul challenge reaching Supreme Court
Post Date: 2015-10-25 10:49:39 by cranky
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In this June 25, 2015, file photo, supporters of the Affordable Care Act hold up signs as the opinion for health care is reported outside of the Supreme Court in Washington. Opponents of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul are taking yet another challenge to the law to the Supreme Court. And they say they'll be back with more if this one fails. A new appeal being filed Monday, Oct. 26, contends the law violates the provision of the Constitution that requires tax-raising bills to originate in the House of Representatives.Opponents of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul are taking yet another challenge to the law to the Supreme Court, and say they will be back ...
Amish man challenges photo ID requirement to buy firearm as violation of his religious beliefs
Post Date: 2015-10-24 05:19:12 by Willie Green
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WILLIAMSPORT — An Amish man living in Northumberland County whose religious beliefs prevent him from being photographed is challenging the photo identification requirement to purchase a firearm. Andrew Hertzler claims in a suit filed Friday in U.S. Middle District Court that the requirement is a violation of his constitutional right to possess a firearm and of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Defendants are the federal government, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James B. Comey and Thomas E. Brandon and Christopher C. Shaffer, acting director and assistant director of public and government affairs, respectively, for the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and ...
More Legislators Think Underprivileged Cops Need 'Hate Crime' Law Protections
Post Date: 2015-10-23 20:55:50 by Deckard
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from the won't-someone-think-of-the-guys-with-power-and-guns?!!?! dept Another US city has stepped up to shelter some of its most privileged citizens from "hate crimes."The Red Wing (MN) City Council passed a resolution last week calling for crimes against law enforcement to be prosecutable as hate crimes. The picturesque town on the banks of the Mississippi River is believed to be the second place in the nation — and the first city — to pass such a resolution. “It seems that anyone wearing a blue uniform has become a target in the minds of a lot of people — a target not because of what they’re doing, but a target because of who they are, which for ...
Irwin Schiff Croaks in Jail
Post Date: 2015-10-20 18:04:02 by Willie Green
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Irwin A. Schiff, who built a national following by arguing that income taxes are unconstitutional and spent more than 10 years in prison for evading them and for helping thousands of others to do the same, died on Friday at a hospital affiliated with a federal prison in Fort Worth. He was 87.The cause was lung cancer, his son Andrew said on Monday.At his death, Mr. Schiff was an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution, where he was serving his third prison term, a 14-year sentence handed down in 2005.Mr. Schiff sold more than 250,000 copies of six self-published books, including “How Anyone Can Stop Paying Income Taxes” (1980), “The Great Income Tax Hoax” (1985) ...
Vampire Cops (Apparently, taking our money’s not enough.)
Post Date: 2015-10-19 12:51:53 by Deckard
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They want our blood, too.You may have heard about this. In Texas – one of America’s, uh, “freest” states – the cops have got the power to throw you over the hood of a cruiser and forcibly extract your blood if you decline to take a Breathalyzer test. After having been forced to stop for no specific reason at a “sobriety” checkpoint. Your refusal to cooperate – that is, to prove your innocence (that’s how it works in America nowadays) to the satisfaction of a cop is all the provocation necessary. Roll down your sleeve.Or else.Count (oops, Police Chief) Art Acevedo of the Austin PD wants to expand what had been a “pilot” program – ...
Warrants? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Warrants!
Post Date: 2015-10-15 05:46:49 by Deckard
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America is becoming unrecognizable. The landscape is still familiar; the flag looks the same. But it is a changed placed.And some places are more changed than others.In New Jersey, the state Supreme Court has just ruled that a cop can search your vehicle if you are pulled over for any reason – and without a warrant.A defective turn signal, for instance.Or a seatbelt “violation.”Basically, the NJ court has ruled that once a cop turns on his emergency lights, your Fourth Amendment rights have been forfeited.It used to be (and still is, in other states) that more in the way of evidence or at least, “reasonable suspicion” that the car’s driver or occupants had done ...
BERNIE SANDERS: GUN MANUFACTURERS MAY NEED TO BE HELD LIABLE FOR GUN CRIME
Post Date: 2015-10-11 23:49:09 by GrandIsland
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During the October 11 airing of Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd asked Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)16% where he stands on allowing shooting victims to sue gun manufacturers. Sanders made it clear that he is opposed to holding gun store owners liable, but he believes there is room to hold manufacturers liable to some degree. Todd’s question was based on the fact that Sanders voted for the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which President George W. Bush signed into law in 2005. Speaking on Meet the Press, Sanders acknowledged his vote for the PLCAA, then said: That was a complicated vote and I’m willing to see changes in that provision. ...
Ten Ways the War On Drugs Violates the U.S. Constitution
Post Date: 2015-10-11 15:59:38 by Deckard
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How our government's ongoing policy on drugs threatens all of us in unexpected ways. Image: Even while marijuana legalization has been approved in some states, the War on Drugs remains the biggest and greatest violation and imminent threat to our civil liberties and the preservation of the Bill of Rights under the Constitution. The War on Drugs is an enemy to the rights and privacy of U.S. citizens everywhere. And this war not only targets guilty drug users or traffickers; it is also waged against innocent Americans who may think they are safe from draconian drug war policies.This belief is a myth, and here's why: even if you don’t use marijuana, cocaine, pop pills or ...
Dunkin’ Donuts employee writes ‘#blacklivesmatter’ on Providence police officer’s cup
Post Date: 2015-10-05 13:17:38 by Rufus T Firefly
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The union representing members of the Providence Police Department released a statement condemning the Dunkin’ employee’s actions. Share 2.4 k Tweet 45 Pin Comment 231 Email The Dunkin’ Donuts on Atwells Avenue in Providence. The Dunkin’ Donuts on Atwells Avenue in Providence. Google Maps 2.4 k 45 231 By John Waller @jd_waller Boston.com Staff | 10.04.15 | 7:11 PM A uniformed member of the Providence Police Department ordered a cup of coffee at a Dunkin’ Donuts on Friday afternoon. When he was leaving the store, he noticed an employee had left him a message on his Styrofoam cup: “#blacklivesmatter.” Another Providence officer, William O’Donnell, then ...
When Insulting the Police is a "Crime"
Post Date: 2015-10-01 08:38:29 by Deckard
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Three residents of Arena, Wisconsin posted critical and provocative messages on the Facebook page of the local police department. All of those comments were purged by the officer who administered that page. Only one of them, however, resulted in criminal charges.Thomas Smith was arrested and charged with “disorderly conduct” and “unlawful use of a computerized communication system” in a fashion that “tended to cause a disturbance.” Following a brief and perfunctory trial in which Smith's written comments were the only “evidence” used against him, the 23-year-old was convicted and sentenced to a year of probation and 25 hours of “community ...
Is the Constitution Libertarian?
Post Date: 2015-09-30 21:21:39 by tpaine
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www.academia.org Is the Constitution Libertarian? In honor of the 221st Constitutional Day, guest speaker Randy Barnett gave the Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture at the Cato Institute in an effort to set the record straight about whether the Constitution is libertarian. Randy Barnett, a professor of legal theory at Georgetown University Law Center, explained that the Constitution is a governing document which governs those who are in power and who govern others. However, he explained that the Constitution also defines the limit of powers on those who govern us. “As it turns out, this is not an easy question to answer,” Barnett said. “There is a difference between ...
Are We Living In a Democracy?
Post Date: 2015-09-30 08:27:47 by tpaine
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www.palmbeachlwp.com Are We Living In a Democracy? Are We Really Living In A Democracy?
Most Of Us Have A Flawed Understanding Of Our Government, History Scholar Says Ignorance can be problematic for a society that depends upon its citizenry, and depending on citizens is just what the structure of government in the United States does.
However, there’s a large asterisk when it comes to understanding our governance, says history scholar Will Butts. “The United States is not now, and never has been a democracy,” he says. “From its very beginnings, the United States has had a republican form of government. But the words republic and ...
Quran vs. Constitution: Why they're incompatible
Post Date: 2015-09-22 12:41:15 by tpaine
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Quran vs. Constitution: Why they're incompatible Published: 09/26/2009 at 12:00 AM Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2009/09/111055/#OrxL51xmOl9dJTHh.99 President Barack Obama stated in Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009: "When the first Muslim American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the ... Holy Quran." The dilemma is: How can one swear to defend something upon a book that promotes the opposite? The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, yet the Quran states in Sura 4:89, "Those who reject Islam must be killed. If they turn back (from ...
Disturbing Video Shows Cop Threaten to “Lock Up” College Kids for Handing Out Pocket Constitutions
Post Date: 2015-09-21 07:58:01 by Deckard
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Glen Ellyn, IL – In an infuriating video, two students at the College of DuPage, a public university, were on campus exercising their First Amendment rights by passing out pocket Constitutions and fliers that read “America is a free speech zone,” when approached by a police officer and threatened with arrest. Filmed ironically only one day after “Constitution Day,” the footage show the officer infringe on the students’ right to freely express their political opinions by threatening to kidnap and throw them in a cage, claiming they are “soliciting.” The officer tells the students that they need to get a permit and that they can’t “just do it ...
Ready for SCOTUS: Federal Appeals Court Rules Obamacare’s ‘Religious Accommodation’ Illegal
Post Date: 2015-09-20 07:24:47 by cranky
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Next month the Supreme Court is almost certain to announce that it will hear arguments in a new challenge to part of Obamacare, now that a federal appeals court has struck down another part of President Obama’s namesake law. Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) merely requires that employers offering insurance include “preventive care” in their healthcare plans, Obama’s first secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius, issued a regulation referred to as the HHS Contraceptive Mandate, which interpreted “preventive care” to include birth control and abortion-related services. This is the regulation that was ruled ...
Court Clerk Kim Davis vs. Anti-Christian Judicial Tyranny
Post Date: 2015-09-11 09:59:57 by nativist nationalist
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“If the law supposes that, the law is a ass—a idiot.” Charles Dickens gave that line to Mr. Bumble in “Oliver Twist.” And it sums up the judgment of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis about the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, which said the 14th Amendment guarantees same-sex couples the right to marry. Davis refused to provide marriage licenses to gay couples lined up at her clerk’s office and was sent to jail for five days by a federal judge for contempt of court. Good for her. We need more like her. For behind her defiance are more authoritative sources than the five justices who gave us Obergefell: the Old and New Testaments, Natural Law, two ...
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