JUNEAU, Alaska (Oct. 26, 2016) – Today, a new law allowing parents to opt their children out of standardized testing in Alaska goes into effect. The new statute gives parents a powerful tool to push back against Common Core. Rep. Wes Keller (R-Wasilla) introduced House Bill 156 (HB156) last year. The legislation broadly defines the rights…
Calling the national healthcare scheme the “Affordable Care Act” has to rank among the most Orwellian names every hung on a piece of federal legislation. Since its passage, the ACA has served to make health insurance increasingly unaffordable, and it looks like millions of Americans will suffer another round of Obamacare sticker shock in the…
A while back it was reported that the U.S. Navy had fired on radar installations of the Houthi rebels in Yemen, after the Houthis fired missiles at U.S. navy ships. The constitutional implications of this affair have (as far as I know) not been much discussed. Obviously there is no congressional authorization for military action…
In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I talk about the insidious nature of identity politics, and the Lockean conception of equality. Virtually every political issue today eventually gets framed in terms of race or some other group identity. How useful is this? Can we really legitimately lump individuals into large homogeneous groups? Why…
BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio (Oct. 24, 2016) – An Ohio town will consider regulations on drones that may include limits on law enforcement surveillance. The legislation would not only establish important privacy protections at the local level, it would also help thwart the federal surveillance state. According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, earlier this month, the…
The Liberty Essays: Restoring a Lost American Principle by Pat McGeehan and Ashely Stinnett is a comprehensive reintroduction of traditional American cultural values and a call for reform among the American faithful. The book covers a variety of topics, but what sets it apart is its direct appeal to American Christians. Both writers hail from…
This is last Friday’s Tenther newsletter, which everyone in the nullification movement gets daily or weekly. Be one of them. The Tenth Amendment Center is standing up to some of the most dangerous and unconstitutional programs in history. And I need your help right now. ATF, NSA, HUD, EPA, BLM, TSA, FRN – I could make the…
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (Oct. 23, 2016) – The Miami Beach city commission will consider an ordinance that would take the first step toward limiting the unchecked use of surveillance technologies that violate basic privacy rights and feed into a broader national surveillance state. Commissioner Michael Grieco introduced the measure earlier this month. The ordinance would…
People keep telling me I need to vote for Donald Trump because of Supreme Court justices. In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I talk about that. If I care about the Constitution and limited federal power, I have to vote for Donald Trump no matter how bad he might seem because of the…
Learn how to stop the feds, without waiting on the federal government to limit itself. Part 1: Using examples from pre-revolutionary times through today, learn what kind of strategy should be used to stop the feds. Part 2 shows you how to use these strategies on 10 major federal programs, from mass surveillance to gun…