The new law prohibits government agencies in Alabama from accepting a CBDC as payment, and from participating in any testing of a CBDC by the Federal Reserve.
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The legislation would direct the Department of State Treasurer to study the costs and benefits that would result from a state-administered and state-audited vaulting bullion depository in North Carolina.
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A bill introduced in the South Carolina Senate would expressly exclude a central bank digital currency (CBDC) from the definition of money in South Carolina, creating potentially significant roadblocks to its use as such in the state.
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Despite a well-documented pattern of lawlessness by the FBI, including a failure to comply with even the most modest reforms, the secret court charged with ensuring FISA surveillance is lawful has essentially given the FBI unlimited mulligans for all of its unconstitutional acts.
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Lysander Spooner was right: Words aren't enough. We must resist.
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The Constitution nowhere authorizes the federal government to have anything to do with housing. This means no FHFA, no FHA, no Fannie Mae, no Freddie Mac, no Ginnie Mae, no HUD, no Federal Home Loan Banks, and no VA and USDA mortgages.
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The government can print paper money out of thin air. Every time it does, it makes everything more expensive and you have to pay an inflation tax.
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In May, the federal government piled another $240.3 billion onto the fiscal 2023 deficit, running it to $1.38 trillion with four months left to go
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States and individuals can stop the new pistol brace rule - without waiting for the federal government to magically do something it almost never does - limit its own power. It’s going to take hard work – and good strategy. The latter, we’ve got from the “father of the Constitution” – who gave us a four-step blueprint.
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Yesterday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill that could ban state cooperation with the enforcement of some federal regulations on oil and gas production in the state. But the new law has a big loophole that will likely allow state and local agencies to continue enforcing many if not all federal regulations.
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