At Forbes, Trevor Burrus: No Taxation Without Representation: How A Fundamental American Principle Is A Technicality To The New York Times (responding to this editorial in the New York Times). From the introduction: The Origination Clause was included in the Constitution to ensure that the body that taxed the people, the House of Representatives, was also the most accountable to…
Nullification. Tenth Amendment. Opponents react hysterically to these words with name calling – racist, secession, Civil War, slavery, confederacy. Clever strategy – conjuring up such emotionally-charged words from a dark period in our history so that average Americans cringe when they hear nullification or tenth amendment – shutting down any healthy debate. However, it is interesting…
Major developments are taking place in the medical marijuana community that are opening eyes everywhere, much to the chagrin of the feds. A number of testimonials continue to emerge that indicate the tremendous healing power of marijuana rich in CBD, the non-psychoactive ingredient in the cannabis. It appears to yield benefits in treating a host…
Is there a way around Obamacare? There is, and it saves you money. Tom Woods spoke to Dale Bellis of Liberty HealthShare on his show yesterday. Listen below! Is the show useful to you? Keep the show going by joining Tom as a Supporting Listener – get transcripts of all the interviews, plus special discounts at a bunch of liberty-friendly retailers!…
Millions have lost their lives. And yet, you are not free. Could it be worse? Maybe. But today, you are a criminal if your toilet is too large, if you get the wrong type of light bulb, if you grow the wrong plant, if you prefer to not be scanned or felt up at an…
From the “you’re glad you’re not in my line of work” files: Sometimes when you send out a press release to 500-700 national reporters and alternative media contacts, you get no responses. Sometimes, you get a handful. And sometimes you get a lot of them. And sometimes, you get a phone call on a Friday…
Here’s something that cannot be repeated enough. In just the last week, Congress failed – once again – to do anything right. And, they failed on two of the biggest issues of the day. As expected, they gutted the USA Freedom Act, which now only sounds good but actually puts into law that NSA surveillance…
The USA Freedom Act was lauded as a great first step in trying to stop the abuses of the NSA. However, to even pass out of committee many changes altered the initial text of the bill. These changes didn’t improve privacy. And, unfortunately that’s just half of it. The amended bill which passed the House…
Last week I joined a group of distinguished scholars on this amicus brief filed in support of plaintiffs/appellants in Tuaua v. United States, the Samoan citizenship case now at the D.C. Circuit. As I’ve discussed before, the issue is whether the Constitution allows the United States to treat inhabitants of American Samoa (a U.S. territory) as something less than American citizens…