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
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March 18, 2010
Good Article about the 10th Amendment. NYTimes: This Federalism Thing Seems to Be Catching On Virginia Tenth Amendment Center …
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January 21, 2012
… seemed on the superficial level to offer continuity, it was actually an ideological reversal, back to the Liberal wing of the Republican Party. Though he lambasted his opponent Michael Dukakis, tarring him with the “Liberal” label, which Reaganism 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, e…
Tags: Compassionate conservatie, Debate, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, nomination, Rick Santorum, Ronald Reagan
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November 14, 2008
…ly not the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression despite the politicking of Mr. Obama and his party. Let’s look at some of Reagan’s key policies and why they should still be the backbone of the Republican Party: 1. federalism; 2. smaller government; 3. lower taxes; and, 4. strong foreign policy without isolationism. Not one of the candidates for public office this year spoke of federalism. Neither side of the debate centered on giving …
Tags: Conservative, Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Obama, Republican
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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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November 30, 2011
…of the Obama Coalition”, Thomas Edsall, by pushing “takers” into a non-working, entitlement, nanny state, socialistic philosophical ideology. Republicanism is not lost but it is certainly a candidate for a “Progressive Lite” label….or what as “Congress is Useless” all about? http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/2011/11/congress-is-useless/ And all that is supported in academia today is under the myth of “academic freedom”. Collectivism and totalit…
Tags: First Amendment, Religion, Separation of Church and State
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October 30, 2011
… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
Tags: " "Dancing with the Stars, Chaz Bono, Fini Goodman, JR Martinez
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May 5, 2009
… the north and the Hollywood Moguls in California are all Americans. Even though we have our different opinions, religions and way of life, we are always Americans first. I remember reading an article many years ago about why Federalism works in the United States but doesn’t really work anywhere else except in a handful of countries. The article stated that when somebody asks an American overseas, where they are from, the answer is always “I’m an…
Tags: Abe Lincoln, Chris Mathews, Civil War, Hendrik Hertzberg, Keith Olermann, Rick Perry
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August 30, 2009
America was built on the fundamentals of Freedom. The Founding Fathers were a group of industrialists, businessmen and farmers that understood the basic principles of hard work, individualism and lack of governmental interference would lead to prosperity, economic freedom and happiness. They understood that government was necessary, but, they also understood it was a necessary evil. The first major political dispute in this country was the const…
Tags: Federalism, John Adams, Ted Kennedy, Thomas Jefferson
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February 4, 2010
Last fall this column published an article on Swedish Socialism. Here is an article that is not really a followup, but again points to the problems with European style Socialism that our president is so in love with. This time case in point, Denmark. So, as written by my colleague, Michael Cochrane . . . . . The other day I caught a portion of a story on NPR’s “All Things Considered” about tax rates in Denmark. It seems that ev…
Tags: Denmark, European Union, Federalism, socialism, Sweden
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