“Amazon.com filed a lawsuit on Monday to fend off a sweeping demand from North Carolina’s tax collectors: detailed records including names and addresses of customers and information about exactly what they purchased. (more…)
“The latest Rasmussen poll sends Beltway Republicans a message.” (more…)
“Arizona declares weapons exempt from national firearms paperwork.” (more…)
“Washington is out of control. It does as it likes, without restraint. … We have no influence over them, no way of resisting. Except, perhaps, to ignore them. …
“The feds do not have the manpower to enforce federal laws within California without the help of the police of California. What happens if a state passes a law saying that its citizens cannot be forced to buy health insurance? What can Washington do? It can persecute individuals, but a state, or thirty states, are another thing. The FBI can arrest any one person, but it cannot arrest Wyoming. …
“At bottom, Washington’s power is economic.” (more…)
In this video (less than 6 minutes long), “Ron Paul tells it like it is: There is no ‘right’ to health care. Obamacare will be repealed by a national bankruptcy. The IRS is hiring new agents to steal more money. Central economic planning has failed. A much bigger economic crisis is coming. And, every country in the world is technically bankrupt.” (more…)
“Stevens points to one important ‘speech right’ that the — now discarded — campaign finance laws upheld:
There is yet another way in which laws such as §203 can serve First Amendment values. Interwoven with Austin’s concern to protect the integrity of the electoral process is a concern to protect the rights of shareholders from a kind of coerced speech: electioneering expenditures that do not “reflec[t] [their] support.” 494 U. S., at 660–661. When corporations use general treasury funds to praise or attack a particular candidate for office, it is the shareholders, as the residual claimants, who are effectively footing the bill. Those shareholders who disagree with the corporation’s electoral message may find their financial investments being used to undermine their political convictions.
Sarah Palin could have even more impact if she used this strategy than she could if she were president. (more…)
“…[C]onservative and libertarian voters want to feel that they have done something important when they vote for “their man” in The Big One. They still believe in the modern conception of the Presidency. They have emotionally accepted the legitimacy of centralized political power. They have not only abandoned the Articles of Confederation; they have abandoned Madison, Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams, who ran for Congress and won after he lost the Presidency in the election of 1828.
“People want to play in the World Series without learning the game in the minors. …
“What matters is the red section of the country in the map of the counties: the heartland. These are the counties that voted for George W. Bush. There are over 3,000 counties in the United States. There are over 100,000 offices to get elected to, if you count school boards. This is the playing field that matters, not the Presidency.” (more…)
“[Kitty] Werthmann is the head of the South Dakota chapter of Eagle Forum, and was born in Austria. Werthmann lived for seven years under the Nazi rule of Austria, eventually coming to the United States…. She said conditions in 1930’s Austria were very difficult. Unemployment was high, food was short, and many businesses were going bankrupt. …” (more…)
“After a murderous jihad at Fort Hood or the Christmas day airplane bombing attempt, did you hear: ‘Of course, not all Muslims are bad?’ That brings up the question of how do you even tell if a Muslim is bad? Or good?” (more…)