Archives for

state legislatures

Credit Cards Have Expiration Dates. Laws Should Too

Jeff Jacoby, THE GREAT state of Minnesota, you’ll be glad to learn, is no longer interested in the size and color of your bug deflector. The legislature in St. Paul recently scrapped the 1953 law regulating that automotive accessory, one of almost 1,200 antiquated or bizarre laws that Governor Mark Dayton recommended repealing as part […] Continue reading →

Let’s Hope Minimum Wage Hike Fever Doesn’t Spread to D.C.

Hector Barreto Sometimes it seems like everything in Washington is pure politics – even the simple act of two government workers deciding where to grab their Friday lunch. Of course, that’s especially true if the two coworkers are President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Last month the duo ducked into the Washington, D.C. […] Continue reading →

Multiple States Launch Plan to Legally Stop Obama… Without Congress

The federal government has grown in leaps and bounds over the course of American history, far beyond the original intentions of size and scope that the Framers had in mind. The government has routinely ignored the Constitutional constraints that are supposed to limit it, and instead have encroached upon the rights and sovereignty of the […] Continue reading →

Amend the Constitution to control federal spending

George Will From the Goldwater Institute, the fertile frontal lobe of the conservative movement’s brain, comes an innovative idea that is gaining traction in Alaska, Arizona and Georgia, and its advocates may bring it to at least 35 other state legislatures. It would use the Constitution’s Article V to move the nation back toward the […] Continue reading →

Food industry seeks voluntary GMO labeling

People who want to know more about genetically modified ingredients in their food would be able to get it on some packages, but not others, under a plan the industry is pushing. Large food companies worried they might be forced to add “genetically modified” to packaging are proposing voluntary labeling of those engineered foods, so […] Continue reading →

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Bigger and More Dangerous Than ObamaCare

The New American – by William F. Jasper We all remember Representative Nancy Pelosi’s infamous statement that we have to pass the ObamaCare legislation so that we can find out what’s in it. That was in 2010 and Mrs. Pelosi was then speaker of the House of Representatives. Well, Congress followed her advice and passed ObamaCare, […] Continue reading →

Nearly 100 Lawmakers Descend on Mount Vernon to Talk Convention of States � Updated

Close to 100 legislators from 32 states met in Mount Vernon, Va., Saturday to discuss the possibility of adding amendments to the U.S. Constitution through a convention of the states. Such a convention, as outlined in article five of the Constitution, would allow state legislatures to vote on amendments to add. Opened & closed […] Continue reading →

The US Military Does have the Legal and Lawful Jurisdiction to Arrest Obama.

The Lone Star Watchdog It is obviously clear. President Obama is a threat not only to the American people. He is destabilizing the United States every way he can. He did this paying for Treyvon protest trying to start race wars as one example. He is a threat to world peace. He has to be […] Continue reading →

20 Of the Most Obnoxious Quotes From College Professors

John Hawkins: College classrooms are supposed to be politically neutral, not indoctrination centers for liberalism. Yet, we have conservative parents who save money for decades to send their children to universities that teach everything conservatives believe is wrong. We have Republican state legislatures that fund colleges whose first goal is to teach college kids to […] Continue reading →

5 Reasons Why a Constitutional Convention Is a Better Idea than Electing More Republicans

$Gfrac$ Joseph Ashby Mark Levin’s new book The Liberty Amendments proposes that state legislatures use their Article V power to call a convention to propose new constitutional amendments for state ratification. The unorthodox process seems impractical at first — it’s never been used, it’s off the mainstream political radar, few people even know it exists, etc. […] Continue reading →

Mark Levin’s The Liberty Amendments

Thomas Lifson Today marks the publication of Mark Levin’s important new book, The Liberty Amendments. I must confess that I had some trepidation when starting to read it, for as the editor of American Thinker I turn down most submissions that propose amending the Constitution as a solution for what ails us. The reason […] Continue reading →