Shapiro: How Democrats learned to stop worrying and love federalism

Ben Shapiro · October 24, 2018  

In today’s polarized political environment, I’m often asked how I think America can come back together. My answer is pretty simple: we learn to leave each other alone. I didn’t like President Obama much; folks on the left don’t like President Trump. I wanted President Obama and Democrats interfering as little as possible in my life; Democrats presumably feel the same about President Trump and the Republicans. So, here’s a solution: the founders’ solution. It’s called checks and balances, federalism and localism.

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Kavanaugh, Cold Anger and The Reckoning….

Kavanaugh, Cold Anger and The Reckoning….

Posted on September 27, 2018 by sundance

They’ve gone too far.  “Donald Trump’s supporters are angry“, or “uneducated”, or “unenlightened”, or (fill_In_The_Blank). This hate-filled sentiment is clear within the latest vile,… nay,… evil and horrific smears directed toward Judge Brett and Ashley Kavanaugh and their cherished children.  Now the media narrative controllers are fully engaged along with their political brethren.  Do not look away.

The vulgar lies and filth are now extreme as the ideological entities utilize their microphones in a brutal attempt to tear down the Kavanaugh family.

As we bear witness, anyone trying to convince us this entire assembly of our union is headed in the right direction, well, they might want to revisit their proximity to the 2018 election ballpark. Because they’re not just out of the city – they’re also out of the same state the election ballpark is located in….. Then again, the media know that.

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Florida Judiciary Committee Passes COS Application #tcot

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Great news!  Thanks to your calls and letters, the Florida Judiciary Committee passed the COS application earlier this morning.

The vote was a bipartisan 7-2.  You can watch the video or listen to the audio here.  You can also email and call members of the committee by referencing our previous blog post.

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In Memory of a True Patriot – Henry Lamb – #tcot

Henry Lamb, Jr. (May 16, 1938 - May 23, 2012)

HENRY LAMB

Henry Lamb was the founder of the Environmental Conservation Organization, founded in 1988, Sovereignty International, Inc., in 1996,  and Freedom21, Inc., in 1999.  He also served on various boards and committees of other organizations that promote environmental stewardship, private property rights, and Constitutional values.
Arrangements: Dilday-Carter Funeral Home 731-986-8281.
Mr. Henry Wilbur Lamb, Jr, 74, of Hollow Rock, Tennessee, passed away Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at the Baptist Memorial Hospital. Mr. Lamb was born May 16, 1938, in Winston Salem, North Carolina, to the late Henry Wilbur Lamb, Sr. and Mary Keiger Lamb. He was a self-employed publisher and a member of the Bruceton Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife, Irene Lamb, a daughter, Julee Williams of Florida, four sons, Meritt (Karen) Lamb of Old Town, Florida, Casey Lamb of Ohio, Kelly Lamb of Florida, Mark (Marie) Lamb of Hollow Rock, Tennessee, and a sister, Dorothy (Jim) Rule of Arcadia, Florida. He also leaves eight grandchildren and several great grandchildren.
Sign guest book

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Get dollar-pollution out of the race – #tcot

By Henry Lamb

Super PACs, indeed, polluted the Republican primary elections, and it will get worse during the general election campaign.  The short-term cure for this situation is to require that any public announcement in support or opposition to a candidate be approved publicly by the candidate named, and the cost of the announcement be disclosed by the named candidate.  This will not stop the money flow, but it will slow it down.  And, it will identify the individuals and corporations who are spending the money.  The real solution is the plan originally provided by our Framers in the U.S. Constitution.

The Office of President of the United States should seek the man; the office should not be available for purchase, theft, fraud – or by popular election.  Our Framers saw the potential for corruption in the process of choosing a president.  The method they designed eliminates that corruption and should replace the current system.

Goldberg: To heal government, go local

The best solution to our current mess might be disempowering the national elite and allowing more decision-making at the state and local levels.

By Jonah Goldberg

March 20, 2012

Representatives walk down the House steps to leave for the Christmas holiday on Dec. 20, 2011. "Pushing government decisions down to the lowest democratic level possible -- while protecting basic civil rights -- guarantees that more people will have a say in how they live their lives," writes Jonah Goldberg. (Michael Reynolds / EPA)

The bleating about broken government and partisanship continues. Why can't those boobs in Washington agree on anything? We're constantly told that the way to fix the country is to dethrone the left and right and empower the middle. Handing things over to these middling mincers and half-a-loafers — Americans Elect, No Labels, the "gangs" of six or 14, conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans — is supposed to be the answer to all of our problems.

The Ultimate Authority . . . Resides in the People Alone: The People and the Constitution

The Ultimate Authority . . . Resides in the People Alone: The People and the Constitution

When Ronald Reagan proclaimed in his first inaugural “We are a nation that has a government—not the other way around,” he was not taking off on some libertarian tangent or making an obscure philosophical point. He was following in the footsteps of the Founding Fathers who erected a frame of government that began with the words “We the People.” He was also trying to return government to its important but limited role in people’s lives—a role that both political leaders and the people understood until 1912 but has been mostly misunderstood and abandoned since then. At Philadelphia in 1787, the Framers of the Constitution created a national government that would be effective—even energetic—in its functions but also limited to those functions. The people were to be the ultimate guardians of both the effectiveness and limitations of government. The only way such a republic—unprecedented in modern history—could work would be if the people acted as a vigilant and constitutionally-minded sovereign jealous of their rights.

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General Misunderstandings – Tenth Amendment Center

General Misunderstandings – Tenth Amendment Center

 

by Michael Maharrey

Paul Abrams trotted out one of the favorite progressive arguments for virtually unlimited federal power in a March 9 Huffington Post article.

The good ole’ “general welfare” clause.

Abrams brings quite an academic pedigree to the party. Yale educated, summa cum laude, multiple advanced degrees…which goes to show an Ivy League education doesn’t necessarily guarantee a student will actually graduate knowing anything.

OK, perhaps that’s a bit harsh. He may be a fine lawyer and an excellent medical doctor, but a constitutional scholar – not so much.

Abrams’ argument goes like this.

M912TC Joins Freedom21 to Repeal the 17th Amendment

The Martin 9/12 TeaParty Committee has been selected to get the word out in Florida of the new campaign by Freedom21.org to organize more grassroots leaders for the purpose of promoting legislation to repeal the 17th Amendment.

Many people have not even heard of the 17th Amendment, and have no appreciation of its devastating effect on the balance of power in the original design for our federal Republic.  This campaign, under the guidance of Henry Lamb, renowned author and lecturer for Sovereignty International and other policy-analysis institutions, intends to bring this issue into the popular conversation.

To that end, we are sending this information to the organizers of Florida’s grassroots campaigns who have shown their colors as true conservatives in the Tea Party / 912 tradition.  Link to the introductory information that will show you the logic that leads to our assertion that this is the FIRST STEP, and that enforcing the 9th and 10th Amendments is not likely without it. 

We recommend your participation in this effort and caution you that this will be a long process with unsteady progress.  We are ready to fight for as long as it takes to accomplish this first necessary step in recovering the Republic.

Read the organizers' information below and take action today. 

Jim McGovern
Martin 9/12 TeaParty Committee
IN GOD WE TRUST

LINK TO COMPLETE MESSAGE.

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A great New Year’ s Resolution

By Henry Lamb

In hopes of returning to a previous, “better” condition, millions of Americans will resolve to:  quit smoking, lose weight, or engage in some other activity to make their life better in some way.  Suppose there were an activity in which Americans could engage that would make the entire world better, especially that portion of the world we call the United States of America.  There is!

We can resolve to restore the original, unique Republic created by our founders.

George Washington, Ben Franklin, James Madison and the handful of other great Americans who assembled in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, used nearly half of the Convention time debating the single issue of representation in the new government.  Shall the new government be a government of the states, or a government of the people?

The Articles of Confederation created a government of the states, and any amendment to the Articles required unanimous approval.  This arrangement was inadequate; no state could be compelled to comply with any directive from the government.  James Madison’s Virginia Plan proposed a new government of the people; Andrew Hamilton wanted a strong central government, with the President to be elected for life.