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Kansas Republican-Dominated House Working Hard to Keep the Status Quo on Common Core

Kansas Republicans Passed a Resolution back in 2013 opposing Common Core. Today, the Republican-dominated state House took the End Common Core bill, HB2292, which passed committee on 02-18 – and withdrew it from the House calendar, sending it back to the committee. Is this a death-knell for the bill? Quite possibly. They really don’t want to do…

Tennessee Committee Passes Resolution in Support of Creating a Bullion Depository

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Mar 8, 2016) House Joint Resolution 516 (HJR516) from Rep. Brad Hulsey passed the House Finance, Ways & Means Committee this afternoon. The resolution “expresses support for the storage of gold and precious metal bullion and coins in a Tennessee bullion depository” similar to what Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law in Texas…

Connecticut Bill to Reject Some FDA Restrictions on Terminal Patients Clears Committee 24-2

HARTFORD, Conn. (March 8, 2016) – A Connecticut bill that would set the foundation to nullify in practice some Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules that deny access to experimental treatments by terminally ill patients passed out of an important joint committee Monday. A coalition of six representatives and senators introduced House Bill 5270 (HB5270)…

Louisiana Bill Would End Warrantless Drone Spying; Hinder some Federal Surveillance

BATON ROUGE, La. (March 8, 2016) – A Louisiana bill would significantly limit drone surveillance in the state, and also serve to thwart one aspect of the federal surveillance state. Rep. James Armes (D-Leesville) prefiled House Bill 811 (HB811) on March 4. The legislation would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before conducting drone…

Arizona Senate Committee Passes Bill Setting Foundation to Reject Federal Acts

A bill that would set the stage for the state to refuse cooperation with federal acts passed an important Senate committee today with an amendment that would make the proposed law more likely to be implemented in practice.

Why I Believe in Nullification

I believe in nullification because the federal government simply cannot be trusted to limit itself.

The US Tax Code: A Tool to Illegally Sidestep Constraints of the Constitution

Should government be allowed to tax everything? Should elected officials have the power and the latitude to tax every transaction, every activity, every non-activity, and every single little thing in our brief little lives? As it is, government already taxes income, production, consumption, ownership, death, and sin. And if they wanted to they could tax…

New West Virginia Law Takes First Step to Legalize Raw Milk; Sets Foundation to Nullify Federal Prohibition

CHARLESTON, W. Va. (March 7, 2016) – Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin signed a bill into law last week legalizing limited raw milk consumption in the state. This begins a process of nullifying the federal prohibition scheme in practice. Sen. Robert Karnes (R – Upshur) introduced Senate Bill 387 (SB387) in January. The legislation allows West…