Tag: State Ratification Conventions

  • The Battered State Syndrome

    The Battered State Syndrome

    “FREE, SOVEREIGN AND INDEPENDENT” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Aug. 8, 2016) — Any semi-conscious individual with a modicum of intelligence would advise anyone caught up in an abusive relationship of any kind to sever all ties to the opprobrious partner. Yet, almost to a person, these same people would readily…

  • Squeezing the Constitution (Public Lands)

    Squeezing the Constitution (Public Lands)

    WHY DOES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MAKE CLAIM TO STATE LAND? by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Mar. 8, 2016) — (*Author’s note: In light of what happened recently in Oregon and what happened in Nevada in 2014, including the arrest of the Bundys, a journalist and several members of the militia, all…