Michael Boldin and Mike Maharrey talk about state efforts nullify federal healthcare schemes and undercut federal asset forfeiture programs. They also go off script a bit and discuss more generally the importance of political decentralization.
One way to ensure your activism efforts will fail is to try to go it alone. You need to build a strong coalition.
Some people believe that we can’t use sound money because there’s “not enough gold.” But they couldn’t be more wrong.
In this podcast, learn the original meaning of the words themselves, the meaning of "general welfare" in the preamble, and the original meaning and understanding of the clause.
In Federalist #78, Alexander Hamilton wrote "there is no position which depends on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised is void."
Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Half-witted academic: “The only difference between the United States Constitution and the Confederate States Constitution was slavery.” Or maybe you heard Eric “the Red” Foner tell Judge Napolitano that “No one was talking about the tariff” in the months leading to the War in 1861. No one. Or…
Kevin Gutzman, best-selling author and expert on American Constitutional history, discusses the 14th Amendment and the Incorporation Doctrine, how the doctrine has given us government by judiciary instead of government by representation.
Tyler faced a near coup by his cabinet and was expelled from the Whig Party for vetoing their crappy legislation. What did he do? He gladly accepted their resignations, appointed his "state's rights" buddies to his cabinet and moved on.
Today is the 194th day that the GOP has failed to repeal Obamacare. But we’re discussing a different problem this week. A couple of weeks ago, at the behest of Jeff Sessions, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a directive meant to ramp up asset forfeiture across the country – even in states that require…
In this installment of the Activist 101 Podcast, I explain exactly what I saw, and the first steps I took to get the word out.