Authority over every issue not enumerated, or assigned to Congress, is reserved for the individual states.
Last week the national debt pushed above $26 trillion.
Just 35 days ago, the debt eclipsed $25 trillion. And 28 days before that, the national debt stood at a “mere” $24 million.
Here’s some perspective. The debt first crossed the $2 trillion threshold in 1986. It took 210 years to run up a $2 trillion deficit. We just added another $2 trillion in just over two months.
Continue reading “What can’t go on forever doesn’t”
WASHINGTON, DC — Despite growing calls to hold police accountable for using excessive force in non-threatening circumstances, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review any cases challenging the doctrine of “qualified immunity,” which shields police from liability for official wrongdoing.
Continue reading “Supreme Court: No Consequences for Police Who Destroy Home, Mistakenly Shoot 10-Year-Old Boy, or Sic Police Dog on Suspect Already Under Arrest”
By: Mike Maharrey
Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine that shields cops from liability for actions taken in the line of duty unless they violate rights “clearly established” by existing judicial precedent. No statute exists granting qualified immunity. It evolved over time based on a series of Supreme Court cases.
Continue reading “How Federal Courts Gave Us Qualified Immunity”
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”— George Santayana
Watch and see: this debate over police brutality and accountability is about to get politicized into an election-year referendum on who should occupy the White House.
Don’t fall for it.
Continue reading “Engineering a Race War: Will This Be the American Police State’s Reichstag Fire?”
Remember film cameras?
Back in the day, we had to wait for several days to see how our photos turned out. First, we had to finish off the roll of film. Then we had to get it to the processing place. If we were willing to pay extra, we could get our pictures back in 24 hours.
Hard to imagine in the era of digital photography, isn’t it?
Continue reading ““The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches…””
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you—pull your beard, flick your face—to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you.”—John Lennon
Brace yourselves.
Continue reading “This Is Not a Revolution. It’s a Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation”
Mike Maharrey
Over the last month or so, I’ve realized I’ve been thinking about government and my rights all wrong.
Like most people who believe in the founding principles, I’ve always thought government was instituted to first and foremost protect my rights. After all, it says so right in the Declaration of Independence.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
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By John W. Whitehead
“The fundamental political question is why do people obey a government. The answer is that they tend to enslave themselves, to let themselves be governed by tyrants. Freedom from servitude comes not from violent action, but from the refusal to serve. Tyrants fall when the people withdraw their support.”—Étienne De La Boétie, The Politics Of Obedience
Don’t pity this year’s crop of graduates because this COVID-19 pandemic caused them to miss out on the antics of their senior year and the pomp and circumstance of graduation.
Pity them because they have spent their entire lives in a state of emergency.
Continue reading “From 9/11 to COVID-19, It’s Been a Perpetual State of Emergency”
“You have no right not to be vaccinated, you have no right not to wear a mask, you have no right to open up your business… And if you refuse to be vaccinated, the state has the power to literally take you to a doctor’s office and plunge a needle into your arm.”—Alan Dershowitz, Harvard law professor
You have no rights.
That’s the lesson the government wants us to learn from this COVID-19 business.
Well, the government is wrong.
WILMINGTON, Del. — Taking issue with the manner in which state governments have subjected churches to more strident COVID-19 restrictions while allowing exceptions for big-box shopping stores, liquor stores, and guns shops, The Rutherford Institute is asking a federal court to ensure that churches are not being unfairly discriminated against in their efforts to worship in accordance with their religious beliefs. In a First Amendment lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for Delaware, Rutherford Institute attorneys argue that Gov. John Carney’s state of emergency orders restricting indoor gatherings deprive Delaware churches of the equal protection of the law. The lawsuit, Rev. Dr. Christopher Allen Bullock v. Gov. John C. Carney, was filed on behalf of Rev. Bullock, the founder and pastor for Canaan Baptist Church near New Castle, Del., who believes the state’s restrictions are too intrusive, overstepping the wall of separation between church and state.
Continue reading “Rutherford Institute Sues Delaware for Overstepping First Amendment Restrictions, Meddling in Church Affairs and Violating Religious Freedom”