In California, an important bill (SB828) would create a mechanism to turn off all material support and assistance, including water and electricity resources, to the NSA from the state of California. It passed in the state senate by a 29-1 margin, and is now in the Assembly Committee on Public Safety. It will need to pass through…
-- GOA-backed candidate defeats House Majority Leader
Legislators in Colorado, Louisiana and Missouri recently approved "Right to Try" legislation, and Arizona voters will vote on the measure this November. Under a doctor's supervision, people would be given the chance to try promising experimental drugs before they're given final FDA approval.
Since the tea party burst onto the scene, conservatives have talked a great limited government game and rejected much of the anti-Constitutional rhetoric of the Bush years with the exception of one crucial issue: war. There is a monumental disconnect between the military and the rest of the federal government within the conservative mind. They…
This is a 25+ page handbook that will be available as a free download later this month. It's filled with information on the NSA, Obamacare, protecting the 2nd Amendment, Hemp Farming and other important issues where states are taking action to push back against unconstitutional federal power.
At Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin has a thoughtful response to my defense of the President’s action: More on the legality of Obama’s decision to exchange five high-ranking Taliban terrorists without giving Congress advance notice. He concludes: Perhaps Congress would be unduly infringing on the president’s powers as commander-in-chief if it tried to make individual tactical decisions on a…
The feds lost the war on marijuana long ago. They know it. Now we get to watch Congress play catch-up.The will trip over each other desperately trying to position themselves on the "right" side of the issue.
"BNP Paribas is expected to plead guilty in the coming weeks to charges that it processed payments for companies and countries that were subject to United States sanctions. BNP Paribas is also expected to pay financial penalties of about $8 billion, which would leave a sizable, though manageable, dent on its balance sheet. Despite those potential punishments, some regulators want to do more. Specifically, Benjamin M. Lawsky, New York State’s top financial regulator, is considering whether to temporarily suspend BNP Paribas’s ability to process dollar payments, according to people briefed on the settlement talks." Continue reading →
US Patent 6630507: The Nail in the Drug War Coffin? US Patent 6630507 is owned by the federal government despite persecution of marijuana as a schedule I drug with no accepted medical uses… The nail in the coffin of the US War on Drugs is a medical marijuana patent owned by the federal government. At […]
In case you missed it, I was a guest on Tom’s “Tenther Tuesday” to discuss the latest in the Nullification Movement. Woods, as usual, was awesome.