The scam that is the republican establishment is summed up by this quote from Mitt Romney: “Without Tom pushing it, I don’t think we would have had Romneycare,” Romney said. “Without Romneycare, I don’t think we would have Obamacare. So, without Tom a lot of people wouldn’t have health insurance.” If your only choice is…
In solidly red Arkansas, with Republicans now controlling both houses of the state legislature and the governor’s office, one would expect robust opposition to federal overreach, particularly Obamacare. But Arkansas Republicans were unable to come together in opposition to the Affordable Care Act during the 2015 legislative session. To make matters even worse, many Arkansas…
It happened in the blink of an eye. With one favorable Supreme Court decision, scores of libertarians joined establishment progressives and conservatives, picked up daggers and thrust them into the heart of the Constitution. It was bizarre watching people who used to talk about the evils of centralized government and federal usurpation of power suddenly…
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed litigation on Wednesday in an attempt to undermine the Second Amendment Preservation Act that passed by the Kansas legislature in April 2013. It hopes to overturn the law, leaving the firearm rights of Kansans in jeopardy. The Kansas Second Amendment Preservation Act was a historically significant defense…
The people of the state of Kansas are under attack and the weapon being deployed is aimed at depriving them of their right to keep and bear arms, and their right to enact state laws protecting that right. On Wednesday, July 9, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed suit in the U.S. District…
Kansas Star columnist Mary Sanchez wants the federal government to arrest suffering cancer patients using marijuana for pain relief and lock them up in cages. Granted, she’s not likely to admit it, but I think I stand on pretty solid ground making that assumption because she hates nullification. She said so in a recent column…
This morning, the Brady Center filed suit to block the new Kansas 2nd Amendment Protection Act – a bill that we worked tirelessly to support until it was signed into law last year.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: While you were having heated comment debates about the owner of a sports team, the “Supreme Court” of the United States refused to even HEAR a case about NDAA – meaning “indefinite detention” remains in full force. An iron boot is hanging over your head and this is what gets people riled…
It’s no secret that for years now the popular media personality Rachel Maddow has railed against nullification. Consistent with her partisan Democrat disposition she fear-mongered the return of institutional racism, secession and civil war whenever she approached the subject. Her conclusion was that nullification is a hysterical, reactionary, right-wing radicalism that has no place in modern…
As the first legislative session for the OffNow campaign unfolded, it became clear that the prime opposition to state measures prohibiting material support to the NSA would come from two main fronts: law enforcement and tech companies. The law enforcement lobby opposition didn’t particularly surprise us. Cops generally protest against anything that will place limits…