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Signed by the Governor: California Right to Try Act Rejects Some FDA Restrictions on Terminally-Ill

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Sept. 27, 2016) – Today, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that sets the foundation to nullify in practice some Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules deying access to experimental treatments by terminally-ill patients. A massive bipartisan coalition of 29 Assembly members introduced Assembly Bill 1668 (AB1668) on Jan. 15. The legislation gives terminally-ill…

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New Jersey Township Says No to HUD, Refuses Federal Funds

Yet another town has rejected grants covered by HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, effectively nullifying a federal program designed to gain control over local communities. Castle Rock, a city of 55,000 people in central Colorado, along with Sedgwick County, Kansas, and Douglas County, Colorado, have all recently refused funds from the federal government’s Department…

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New Jersey Township Says No to HUD, Refuses Federal Funds

Yet another town has rejected grants covered by HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, effectively nullifying a federal program designed to gain control over local communities. Castle Rock, a city of 55,000 people in central Colorado, along with Sedgwick County, Kansas, and Douglas County, Colorado, have all recently refused funds from the federal government’s Department…

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Tenther Tuesday Episode 4: What they Didn’t Talk About in the Debates. And Protecting the Constitution Locally

What wasn't mentioned might far more important than what was - the Constitution, of course, was barely an afterthought for both candidates.

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Podcast: States’ Rights

We hear the term states’ rights thrown around a lot, but most people don’t really know what it means. In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I talk about the concept of states’ rights and its importance in the American constitutional system. What do we mean when we use the term states’ rights? Are…

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Sitting on the Sidelines is not an Option

TAC memberships help us produce more educational tools like this. Members can download this video and read the full transcript at this link. “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar…

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Tennessee Town Now Has the Ability to Track Drivers Through Their License Plates

LEBANON, Tenn. (Sept. 23, 2016) – A small-town Tennessee police department recently deployed an automatic license plate reader (ALPR) system that allows officers to collect and store data on the location of drivers in the city and potentially feed it into a federal database. The Lebanon Police Department debuted its new M Mobile ALPR Camera…

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The Perversion of the Presidency

What would the Founding generation say about the time, energy, and money spent on the modern presidential elections? After all, if we followed the Constitution’s prescription for the separation of powers, specifically the power of the executive branch, the presidential election would largely be a non-event. Because the powers delegated by the states to the…

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