The Constitution is not in force in any meaningful way, but when did things get like this? Some people think 1861, or 1913, or 1933 - but the answer may surprise you.
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Just because I point out that a government has a particular power doesn't necessarily mean I think it should use that particular power.
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Earlier this month, the Senate voted 95-3 on a non-binding budget resolution to fund the hiring of 100,000 police officers. The vote doesn't authorize any funding but affirms the Senate's support for including the money in the budget.
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This month marks fifty years since President Richard Nixon closed the “gold window” that had allowed foreign governments to exchange US dollars for gold. Nixon’s action severed the last link between the dollar and gold, transforming the dollar into pure fiat currency.
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Brutus takes Alexander Hamilton to task over his support of power “without limitation” to raise and fund armies in Federalist No. 23. He disputes the need, and argues it would reject the principles of the Revolution to form a militarized nation in the image of the European monarchies.
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In practice, the law prohibits any state or local government agency from entering into, renewing, or extending a contract, agreement, intergovernmental service agreement, or memorandum of understanding that authorizes a state or local government agency, or a private correctional detention facility to house or detain individuals for federal civil immigration violations.
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Last month, the first legal medical marijuana business opened in South Dakota, but it wasn't in a place you might expect.
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All of this federal money has a huge impact on local policing, creating, in effect, a national police force.
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The U.S. doesn’t only project power across the globe through its massive military. It also weaponizes the U.S. dollar, using its economic dominance as both a carrot and a stick.
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A national-security state needs official enemies to justify its existence, power, influence, and ever-increasing budgets. That’s how the United States got the Cold War after winning World War II. A new official enemy was needed to justify the conversion of the federal government to a national-security state. That official enemy became “godless communism,” the Soviet Union (i.e., Russia), Red China, North Korea, North Vietnam, and the rest of the communist world.
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