Tag: Tenth Amendment
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A Constitutional Rupture, Feds Diminishing Federalism
by William L. Kovacs, ©2026 (Feb. 16, 2026) — The citizen protests in Minneapolis and the conflict between the state and local governments and the federal government highlight the need for cooperative federalism. In today’s polarized political climate, it may not be achievable, but it is necessary to keep the Union together. Recent headlines tell the…
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Abraham Trump and Barack Milhous Obama
by Thomas Reiner, Quartz Mountain Commentary, ©2025 (Jul. 30, 2025) — America keeps getting better every day under the Trump Administration. He instills confidence as he confronts the calcified metastatic bureaucracies infecting both the Federal government and your pocketbook. Our blooming debt threatens to make America the next USSR, which fell due to bankruptcy. Paring…
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Great Hate in the Town Square
by Thomas Reiner, Quartz Mountain Commentary, ©2025 (Apr. 7, 2025) — “Math is hard, let’s go shopping” – Teen Talk Barbie Barbies and Kens from across America came out in full force this weekend, openly displaying their ignorance of the economic tidal wave hurtling towards America. Our sleepy berg of Prescott, Arizona, located in the…
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The Tenth Amendment: One Path to Cut the National Debt
by Robert Kalebra, ©2025 (Jan. 25, 2025) — “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” – Tenth Amendment The U.S. Constitution, particularly through the Tenth Amendment, sets clear boundaries on the role of the…
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U.S. vs TX, Forget Invasion, It’s the Tenth Amendment
by William L. Kovacs, ©2024 (May 2, 2024) — Litigation between Texas and the United States over Texas’s right to defend itself by securing its border with Mexico from the onslaught of illegal immigration addresses momentous yet unexplored constitutional issues. Can Texas defend itself? Can the federal government force Texas to absorb the financial and…
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“Devolution of Power” Offers Solution to a Federal Government Teetering on Collapse
by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 7, 2024) — William L. Kovacs’s “Devolution of Power: Rolling Back the Federal State to Preserve the Republic” outlines a commonsense, step-by-step process by which the federal government, through congressional legislation and state cooperation, can save the United States from certain destruction brought on by more than a century of unsustainable…
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It’s Easy To Create Jobs
by Don Fredrick, The Complete Obama Timeline, ©2024 (Feb. 11, 2024) — A conservative friend of mine was recently harassed by a leftist who insisted that Joe Biden was the greatest thing since sliced bread, particularly because of all the “new jobs” he is supposedly creating with his “infrastructure” program. There would be new jobs…
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National Debt Will Force Devolution of Power to the States
by William L. Kovacs, ©2023 (Nov. 7, 2023) — [Part I: Fix a Government Too Big to Govern: Devolve Power to the States.] As the spending minuet plays out between the House and Senate over appropriations, supplemental spending for wars, and government shutdowns, a wall of debt is being built around the Congress. With an…
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Star Wars and 21st-Century America
by Bob Russell, ©2022 (Aug. 19, 2022) — I have been watching the Star Wars series on the Turner Broadcasting System and have seen similarities that are both frightening and disturbing. In the movies a Galactic Republic was established to provide liberty and security for all inhabitants of the galaxy. The Republic came under the…
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The Swamp of Silence
by Don Fredrick, The Complete Obama Timeline, ©2022 (May 10, 2022) — Hello, abortion our old friendWe Dems must call on you againBecause November’s only months awayThe pollsters say expect a sure doomsdayWhen the power we have longed for disappearsWith our tearsInto the swamp of silence Barack Obama had big schemesTo fulfill his Marxist dreamsThen…
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Neither the 9th Nor the 14th
by Don Fredrick, The Complete Obama Timeline, ©2022 (May 4, 2022) — Abortion advocates rely on the 9th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution to defend the life-snuffing practice. The 9th Amendment states: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”…
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For an Immediate and Orderly Defense of the Constitutional Order
From the website “From Rome“ Dear Governors of the Several States, What America witnessed yesterday in Washington, D. C., was not a disgraceful tragedy of unruly protestors, but the disgraceful and shameful behavior of the Vice President, Mike Pence, in proceeding to regard the Electoral Ballots of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as…
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What Do I Mean by a Freedom Pod?
by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2020 (Nov. 27, 2020) — How do we effectively fight to restore liberty in America? Most think that just getting a president elected is the answer, but what if we lose that race? Or, what if we win the Presidency but lose the House of Representatives and the Senate?…
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USA 2.0 Day
ENDING THE “SOFT LOCKDOWN” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Apr. 14, 2020) — Over the years, your faithful servant has offered several “modest proposals” dealing either with the Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. constitutional eligibility issue (discussed here and here) or the illegal alien issue (discussed here. It may be time for another modest proposal. These are…
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The New California Tar Pit
“THE CONSTITUTION IS NOT A SUICIDE PACT” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2018 (Dec. 30, 2018) — This is a follow-up to an earlier post on Newman, California Officer Ronil Singh’s death. May his wife, Anamika, and her son one day heal from this wholly preventable and politically-inflicted catastrophe. The tragedy of Officer Singh’s murder grows even…
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States Are No Longer States Under the Constitution
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2018, President, NARLO (Jun. 17, 2018) — “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all…
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Commentary: Sanctuary City Here?
OXNARD, CA CONSIDERS THE DESIGNATION by George Miller, ©2017, Publisher, CitizensJournal (Feb. 28, 2017) — Does the name Jamiel Shaw, Jr. mean anything to you? How about Kate Steinle? No? Then how about Brian A. Terry? These are just three fine Americans killed by illegal alien (that is the legal term) felons. Many more were killed…
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When Does Federal Law “Trump” State Law?
OR DOES IT? by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 25, 2017) — At approximately 10:15 AM EST on Friday, this writer received a text notification of an Amber Alert for a six-year-old child at the other end of the state, in Bridgeport, CT. Within the next half-hour, a second message was received stating that the Amber Alert…
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A UN and Tribal Takeover?
HIDDEN PROVISIONS IN CONGRESSIONAL ENERGY BILLS UNDERMINE AMERICA’S WATER AND PROPERTY RIGHTS by Lawrence Kogan, ©2016 (Sep. 17, 2016) — A massive 792-page Senate Energy Committee bill threatens to authorize federal bureaucrats to cede extensive control over western state water and property rights, energy development and forest management to Native American tribes, local UN sustainability councils…
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Why It Always Gets Worse and Never Better
“ACTS OF TYRANNY” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jul. 30, 2016) — Author’s note* As previously noted, discussions with readers and friends brings up subjects I have previously written about. Recently, I had an email exchange about those who are in and those who seek political office in this country are…