Can States Nullify the New Federal Mandates?

With the new mandates expected to impact more than 80 million people - the question for many - can the states do anything about it right now? Exploring the strategies to take it on without waiting for the feds to limit their own power.

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Shocker: Politicians Lie!

No, no, not just the politicians you don’t like. I mean pretty much all of them – with a few rare exceptions. It’s like part of the political DNA. This is one of the reasons Patrick Henry declared: “Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on […]

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The Evil and Cynicism of Federal Foreign “Donations”

The question arises: Why should the U.S. government be making “donations” to anyone? Why not instead leave the money in the hands of the American people and let them decide what to do with their own money?

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U.S. Senate Votes to Expand the National Police State

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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A Better Direction Entails Fundamental Change

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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Blame Biden for Losing Afghanistan?

It is becoming increasingly clear that the strategy of interventionist dead-enders is to blame President Biden for losing Afghanistan to the Taliban. If only he had kept U.S. troops there a bit longer or even indefinitely, their argument goes, the crooked and corrupt U.S.-installed Afghan puppet regime could have won the war and finally brought “enduring freedom” to Afghanistan.

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