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• Progressive Dementia: Claiming Kopel Doesn’t Know Gun Laws - 17 May 2013
  posted in Civil Liberties & To Bear Arms

  I normally don’t get into the pit with mudwrestlers, but the gob of muck that flew past my desk today was too rich to ignore. One of Colorado’s lefty pressure groups is claiming that the Independence Institute’s Research Director Dave Kopel fed the 2013 Colorado legislature false information on gun bills. II’s “credibility . . [...]

• Repeal the Second Amendment First. - 04 Apr 2013
  posted in Alerts & Civil Liberties

  ALERT: Neither the federal government or any state government can lawfully debar the People of the right to “keep and bear arms” without first amending the Constitution! Take Action! Blast Faxes to Congress. Conservative American, One-hundred and forty-seven years ago this week, Supreme Court decided Ex parte Milligan. The case, one of the first to [...]

• Just Selling Soap - 13 Mar 2013
  posted in Columns & Media & Natural Law & Natural Rights & Principles

  When I was about 4 years old, television was a very new thing. In those very early years of my life, I remember watching a program in which a clown, probably “Clarabell” defied gravity by floating across the screen. Unnerved by seeing something so strange — something I knew couldn’t be real — I asked [...]

• Classical Centrist - 04 Mar 2013
  posted in Civil Liberties & Columns

  Listeners to my Constitution Radio program on KCAA 1050 AM on Saturdays at 2:00 Pacific often email me to ask questions about things I say on the show.  One of the most common questions is my reference to myself as a Classical Centrist. What is a Classical Centrist? To understand my self-proclaimed political designation, one [...]

• How the Courts have Clarified the Constitution’s Amendment Process - 01 Mar 2013
  posted in Columns & The Constitution

  One source of security we have in using the Constitution’s amendment process is that the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have a long history of protecting the integrity of the procedure. Many of those who pontificate on the subject are largely unaware of this jurisprudence. Some have never investigated it. Some think the courts [...]

• American sheriffs unite to defy Obama’s gun grabbing laws - 20 Feb 2013
  posted in Politics & Govt & States & Tyranny

  Joining a growing number of the nation’s law enforcement officials refusing to partake in unconstitutional actions ordered by the federal government, the sheriff of Linn County, Ore., sent a preemptive letter to Vice President Joe Biden  stating he is prepared to refuse to enforce federal regulations “offending the constitutional rights of [Linn County] citizens.” According [...]

• Article II has now been erased - 30 Jan 2013
  posted in Columns & Executive & The Constitution & Tyranny

  Barack Hussein Obama, the community organizer who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, got there by violating Article II of the Constitution of the United States not once but four times in four years. Add his four violations of Article II with two violations of Article I since becoming the “Occupier,” and we have six impeachable [...]

• Bring the Monster Out - 25 Jan 2013
  posted in Civil Liberties & Columns

  When taxes become destructive they surpass the consent of the governed bending to the will of tyranny.  When regulations strangle competition instead of securing it from evil combinations they become counterproductive and defeat the very purpose for which they were proposed.  When foreign entanglements bleed the nation but do not secure the peace or defeat [...]

• My country ‘tis of thee: time for Americans to pay attention. Part I of VII - 08 Jan 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Civil Liberties & Columns & Economy

  I have been troubled very much during most of the Obama administration by otherwise good people, some in my inner circle of family and friends, who choose not to be good Americans. They do not even take the time to pay attention, yet they have an opinion on everything. It is a phenomenon that I [...]

• It’s (not quite) a Riot! How the Constitution’s language differs - 02 Jan 2013
  posted in Columns & The Constitution & Uncategorized

  “. . . it opens a door to the appointment of a swarm of revenue and excise officers to prey upon the honest and industrious part of the community, eat up their substance, and riot on the spoils of the country.” – Judge Robert Yates, New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention (warning in Dec. [...]