November 12, 2009
In the past few weeks, I have had numerous discussions with my friends and colleagues regarding the powers of the Federal Government and whether the Obama Administration was stepping beyond the boundaries of the powers given the Central Government in the Constitution. In fact, a number of people in my office had very little understanding of how American Federalism works. Just by coincidence my friend Michael Cochrane had recently wr…
Tags: Education, Federalism, Welfare
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May 17, 2010
…xas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, who take the brunt of the costs. In an article titled Criminal Alien Nation, by Edwin Rubenstein, criminal illegal aliens are a growing threat. In summary, he reports: “In 1980, our Federal and state facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens but at the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities.” The figure is estimated at double that today…
Tags: Arizona, Immigration
Posted in Ira Schwartz, Uncategorized | 19 Comments »
March 1, 2010
…th Amendment. The Tea Party movement and Ron Paul are just a small fraction of the groups which are actively supporting these theories and principles. To understand Nullification, one must first have a basic understanding of Federalism. The United States is a Federalist country. It has always been so from the beginning. A Federalist country is a group of smaller units, in this case States, which are joined together as a union for the common good…
Tags: Civil War, Federalism, Nullification
Posted in Frank DeMartini, Uncategorized | 9 Comments »
January 21, 2012
… had turned into a dirty word, Bush himself was every bit a Progressive. His admitted trouble with “the vision thing” prevented him from continuing with Reagan’s unfinished work: shrinking government, eliminating overreaching federal departments and returning power to the states. Though Bush was engaged on economics on the macro level, mixing comfortably with the G-8 and captains of worldwide industry, he seemed out of touch with how policy might…
Tags: Compassionate conservatie, Debate, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, nomination, Rick Santorum, Ronald Reagan
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January 16, 2012
Today is MLK Day, a federal holiday observing the birthday of the foremost spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the American civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Although Dr. King, a registered Republican, was born on January 15, the holiday is always observed on the third Monday in January as part of The Uniform Monday Holiday Act. The federal holiday wasn’t an easy one to get passed in Congress. It was initially introduced …
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March 29, 2010
…id it best. “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” So the fight will go on. As we speak, at least 13 state attorneys general filed suit against the federal government. The states that are definite are Alabama, Colorado, Florida, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Michigan, Nebraska, and Washington. One of the things they claim is that the federal government does…
Tags: Lita Epstein, Michael Boldin, Rasmussen, Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill
Posted in Craig Covello, Ira Schwartz, Uncategorized | 10 Comments »
May 13, 2010
…ry in response to the Arizona Immigration Law. In fact, the City of Los Angeles and other organizations are calling for a boycott of Arizona in response instead of recognizing that Arizona has a right to protect itself if the Federal Government refuses to do such. Arizona is merely exercising its Tenth Amendment Rights. A careful reading of the Arizona Law shows that it is nothing more than a state codification of the current federal law; all leg…
Tags: Immigration, Mexico, Patriotism
Posted in Conservative, Frank DeMartini, Uncategorized | 30 Comments »
August 14, 2009
…United States Constitution which is very short, but is also one of the most controversial sections of the document. There are many people who believe that it is the primary cause of the Civil War: i.e. did the states, not the Federal Government have the right to determine whether to be slave or free? Ronald Reagan believed in the amendment more than anything else, as did Thomas Jefferson. It simply states in its entirety: “The powers not delegate…
Tags: Economy, Ronald Reagan
Posted in Frank DeMartini, Ira Schwartz, Uncategorized | 10 Comments »
March 7, 2010
The Obama White House has been actively working on reforming our system of health care insurance in this country for over a year now, and I am sure we are all worn out by the prolonged conversation. It’s been a juggernaut chronicled by procedural missteps, back-room deals, blatant misrepresentations and special tax exemptions for the unions. All this was topped off with the outrageous proclamation that federal control over our American med…
Tags: Medicaid, Senate
Posted in Craig Covello, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
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