During the last eight years, the Obama administration failed to live up to its promise reverse the Bush era’s mass surveillance of American citizens. In fact, it was expanded and justified. If you were silent, the sweeping power controlled by the president may not be on your radar for the right reasons. While there is…
Relying solely on state legislators and bureaucrats to nullify a federal act is a bad strategy.
"I picked out my 4 favorites from Tom Woods's latest update and wanted to share them with you."
Tom Woods literally wrote the book on Nullification. This video is a short clip of the keynote speech he gave at the TAC's 2011 nullification conference in Philadelphia.
DENVER, Colo. (Nov. 24, 2016) – In yet another example of extreme federal overreach, the U.S. Department of Justice recently fined the Denver County Sheriff’s Office because it disqualified non-citizens from applying for open deputy positions. In early 2015, the sheriff’s office kicked of a major hiring push, adding more than 200 deputies. The department…
In the wake of the presidential election, Hillary Clinton supporters have cried foul because their candidate won the popular vote, but lost in the Electoral College. So now they want to abolish it. In response, Tom Woods recently hosted an episode of his podcast discussing the Electoral College with historians Kevin Gutzman and Brion McClanahan. The…
If these academics have their way, government-backed paper money will further approach its intrinsic value - zero. They hope that this will drive cash-based savings into bank deposits, which generate fee revenue and a source of leverage for the banks while at the same time supplying governments with taxes and police oversight of citizens' financial lives. However, governments attempting to eliminate cash usage risk destroying trust in the 'coin of the realm', leading to cash-based savings being moved into assets such as real estate, precious metals, and cryptocurrencies instead of bank deposits. Continue reading →
"Three bankers in New York, London and Siena, Italy, died within 17 months of each other in 2013-14 in what authorities deemed a series of unrelated suicides. But in each case, the victim had a connection to a burgeoning global banking scandal, leaving more questions than answers as to the circumstances surrounding their deaths." Continue reading →
"Eight days into demonetisation, the death toll has reached 47. These are confirmed deaths reported in the national media. The number of unreported deaths may be higher. While most deaths are of the elderly waiting in long bank queues, there are quite a few suicides, especially of housewives." Continue reading →
Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution - that’s the so-called “general Welfare clause.” It had a very specific meaning to the Founders. It’s one that government-run schools haven't been teaching us - or our children, unfortunately.