Tag: secession

  • It Started in 1787 (Part One)

    It Started in 1787 (Part One)

    “CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED” by Michael Gaddy, ©2015, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Dec. 29, 2015) — (Author’s note: I continue to be flabbergasted at how many people in this country call for demonization of all things Southern and the removal of all images and symbols of the South based on lies and distorted history.…

  • Secession, Civil Disobedience, or Nullification

    Secession, Civil Disobedience, or Nullification

    WHICH CAN “RESTORE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC?” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2015, blogging at Order of the Ephors (Dec. 26, 2015) — On October 30, 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama stood on a platform in Carnahan Quadrangle at the University of Missouri. Speaking to a crowd of several thousand starry-eyed students and Democrat Party faithful, Obama said, “After…

  • Secession or War – American West Against the East

    Secession or War – American West Against the East

    FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2015, President, NARLO (Dec. 6, 2015) — When is the Western half of the United States going to get tired of being aggressively bullied by Washington DC and the corrupt, one-world government United Nations, openly supported by DC politicians and reluctantly financed by the oppressed taxpayer?…

  • America at the Tipping Point

    America at the Tipping Point

    “FRIENDS DON’T ALLOW FRIENDS TO VOTE DEMOCRATIC!” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2015, blogging at Order of the Ephors (Jul. 24, 2015) — On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 split decision, declared that the institution of marriage is not limited to individuals of opposite genders… one man and one woman.  Five…

  • The Democrat Party Flag

    The Democrat Party Flag

    “THEY OWN IT” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2015 (Jul. 5, 2015) — Listening to the incessant racist whining from the political left, one would think that the raising of the Confederate battle flag on the statehouse lawn in South Carolina is a well-conceived suicide plot by conservatives and Republicans.  Nothing could be farther from the truth. …

  • Why “The Spanish Vote” Hates the Rule of Law

    Why “The Spanish Vote” Hates the Rule of Law

    ASSIMILATION OR AMNESTY? by OPOVV, ©2014 (Apr. 8, 2014) — Forget borders. Let’s do away with immigration; we don’t enforce it anyway. So if we Americans don’t have any respect for the law, why should anyone else have respect for our laws and, worst-case scenario, for us? Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner. The PC…

  • Let’s Stop Wagging the Dog

    Let’s Stop Wagging the Dog

    A NEW AND INDEPENDENT NATION? by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2013 (Oct. 19, 2013) — In the midst of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandals of the late 1990s, Hollywood produced an art-imitates-life film titled Wag the Dog, in which the president of the United States is caught in the act of making improper sexual advances toward an underage…

  • Petitions to Secede Are Wrongheaded

    Petitions to Secede Are Wrongheaded

    HOW LAWFUL GOVERNMENT CAN BE RESTORED by Dan O’Brien, ©2012 (Nov. 18, 2012) — People in over thirty states are petitioning usurper Obama, via www.Whitehouse.gov, to allow their State to secede from the Union.  Huh?  Asking the fox for permission to leave the henhouse?  Sheeple asking the wolf for permission to leave the flock?  This…

  • The Coming De Facto Secessions

    “DECADES IN THE MAKING” by Don Fredrick, ©2012, blogging at Colony14 (Nov. 16, 2012) — After the November 6 election, petitions were added to the White House web site asking for “Obama’s permission” to secede. There are now 50 such petitions, one for each state, and some have more than the 25,000 “signatures.” They are…

  • Common Cause

    CAN THE STATES BECOME SOVEREIGN ONCE AGAIN? by Dan O’Brien (Aug. 9, 2011) — In reply to JB Williams’ excellent article in the August 8th edition of The Post & Email subtitled, “CAN AMERICANS FIND A “COMMON CAUSE’ TO EFFECT CHANGE?”  I would suggest that sooner, rather than later, we must reactivate the Continental Congress,…

  • The Myth of American Indivisibility

    DO STATES HAVE THE RIGHT TO SECEDE AFTER ALL? by Jim Delaney, blogging at Opinerlog (Jul. 23, 2011) — No nation is immutable; historically, nations evolve and devolve. And there’s no historical precedent which would uphold the assertion that America will be an exception to this rule. And though our Founders had hoped their carefully…

  • Public Official Calls For 13 Southern California Counties to Secede From the State

    COULD THERE BE A MODERN-DAY EXODUS FROM BIG GOVERNMENT? by Jim Campbell, blogging at A Charging Elephant   (Jul. 6, 2011) — My comments below are in response to an original article here, which begins:   Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone apparently thinks so, after proposing that the county lead a campaign for as many…

  • Just Say “No More!!!”

    “SILENCE MAKES COWARDS OUT OF THE BEST OF MEN” by Jim Delaney, blogging at Opinerlog (Jul. 3, 2011) — ON THIS JULY 4TH, and after a few years now of trying to write many of what I had hoped were some sober and well-researched informational posts, allow me the luxury of simply blowing off steam for…

  • The Right to be Wrong

    WITH SOCIALISM, INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY DOES NOT EXIST by Marc Shea (Jun. 2, 2011) — The Marxist revolution unfolding from the White House is the culmination of a hundred-plus years’ worth of collectivist efforts to strip the individual of his or her unalienable rights.  The core principle of Marxism is, of course, that the State is…