ALL states must invoke power to repel invasion

By A. Dru Kristenev ——Bio and Archives--May 22, 2023

The Biden administration has become the enemy of the People as it ushers illegals (approximately six million since taking office) into the country, hands out free cell phones, feeds, clothes, transports and houses them anywhere they desire to go within the United States.

Secretary Mayorkas is escorting illegal border-crossers to new digs in every state, busing and flying them to ports of entry all across the country. In so doing, along with myriads traveling independently by car or rail, every state has phalanx after phalanx of unvetted, unprocessed, economic aggressors fortifying unassimilated communities covering the map. Reticent Border Patrol agents are coerced by DHS to hand out thousands of free entrance passes – I-862 forms brandishing court appearance dates as much as 10 years in the future.

Only one governor whose state straddles the Mexican border has finally requested other states to bolster the woefully inadequate number of law enforcement officers and National Guard available for deployment. In answer, Florida, Idaho and Mississippi are sending reinforcements but even those numbers will be hard-pressed to hold the line in Texas......... .To Read More..

 

The Federalism Fix

How to bring peace to Washington’s partisan wars 

Brian Riedl May 5, 2021 @ City Journal. Published with permission.  I recommend subscribing, it's free.  

 

Imagine a world in which your favorite policy proposals are no longer blocked by Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Bernie Sanders, or Ted Cruz. In this world, Washington’s longstanding partisan warfare no longer paralyzes action on health care, welfare, education, and infrastructure.

Impossible? Not at all. The simple solution is federalism. Rather than watch lawmakers in Washington fight for the right to impose a one-size-fits-all solution on America, we can let state governments, which are closer to the people, tailor local solutions to local problems.

We’ve already seen what happens when Washington calls the shots for everyone. Take health care. Thirty years of partisan fights have raised billions in campaign contributions for both sides, flipped control of Congress in 1994 and again between 2010 and 2014, and brought several high-profile Supreme Court cases. Yet in all this time there have been just two transformational health reforms: the creation of the Medicare prescription drug benefit in 2003 and the 2010 Affordable Care Act. The ACA then saw a disastrous rollout, followed by a repeal fight that dominated domestic politics for the next decade. Much of the debate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary centered on whether to support Medicare For All—a policy with no chance of passing in Congress anytime soon.

Similar patterns of partisan conflict play out on other issues: welfare, taxes, the minimum wage, transportation, and education. So much fighting for so little progress.

Why does Washington have to decide all these issues for the states? Did Vermont voters elect Bernie Sanders to the Senate to impose his socialist vision on Texas? Did Texas voters send Ted Cruz to Washington to bring conservative policies to Vermont? True, the Framers intended the U.S. Constitution to create a degree of gridlock, but they also wanted to empower state and local governments to provide their own solutions for their populations.

Surveys show that voters trust their governors and mayors to solve problems. A 2016 Gallup poll revealed that 55 percent of respondents preferred power to be concentrated in state governments; 37 percent preferred the federal government. A group of surveys also shows that Americans strongly prefer state and local governments to lead on health insurance (62 percent, versus 38 percent preferring federal leadership), welfare (68/31 percent), unemployment (55/26 percent), education (75/25 percent), pre-kindergarten education (71/25 percent), transportation (78/22 percent), law enforcement (73/20 percent), job training (75/20 percent), housing (83/18 percent), and paving roads (77/9 percent). These preferences reflect the widely shared belief that state and local governments are more competent, fairer, and less wasteful than the federal government.

Decades of geographic partisan sorting also make empowering states more important than ever. Americans have divided themselves into deep red and deep blue states and communities. As far as presidential and Senate elections are concerned, 35 states are essentially one-party states, and 80 percent of counties are considered “landside counties,” with regular partisan splits of more than 20 points. At the same time, both parties are growing more ideologically homogeneous and extreme.

Though America has sorted itself into communities with shared values and political views, Washington has increasingly imposed one-size-fits-all solutions. This has led to political warfare. Lawmakers from California and Alabama battle over which side gets to impose its solution nationwide. Centralization has also encouraged poor policies: there are few good reasons that Brooklyn and Alaska should adopt similar approaches on poverty or education policy. Nor is there any good for reason Hawaii and South Dakota to have similar health-care systems. And why is Washington deciding which local roads to expand?

Many American states have economies, populations, and geographical footprints comparable to those of European countries. If all states were divided into separate countries, California would be the world’s fourth-largest economy, while Texas would be ninth, and New York the eleventh. Virginia’s economy is roughly as big as Poland’s, Louisiana’s matches Finland, Montana’s matches Serbia, and Vermont’s economy—the smallest among the states—is about as big as that of the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia. If those countries are large enough to determine their own policies, why aren’t U.S. states?

Surely not all federal policies should be devolved to the states. Those policies with significant spillover effects to other states—dealing with, for example, pollution, interstate communications, and interstate crime—should remain federal. Washington should also maintain control of obvious national policies such as defense, international relations, homeland security, macroeconomic stabilization, broad financial regulation, health and safety regulation, and federal research. Constitutional and civil rights must be enforced.

But that leaves vitally important functions like highways, roads, K-12 schools, the welfare system, and health care ripe for more state control. Leave it to states to tailor local solutions to local problems. A failed approach will harm one state instead of 50; over time, states will copy those that succeed.

There is room in America for both red and blue. Do we want 30 more years of paralysis as Republicans and Democrats in Washington fight to impose their vision on everyone? America is too large and diverse for such centralization. Let Vermont try single-payer health care, let Texas try free-market solutions—and we can all stop being held hostage by Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Bernie Sanders, and Ted Cruz.

Brian Riedl is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Follow him on Twitter @Brian_Riedl. His new report is titled “Devolution: Four Proposals to Empower States and Reduce Washington’s Political Strife.”

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Dear Red States: You Don’t Need the NCAA

Rob Jenkins Apr 18, 2021

A few short months ago, Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota was a rising star in the Republican Party, due largely to her deft handling of the pandemic. Unlike so many elected officials, even on our side, she refused to sanction lockdown orders or mask mandates in her state. 

Then she caved to the “transgender” lobby, declining to sign a bill that banned males from participating in women’s sports—legislation she had earlier promised to back. Overnight, she went from being a likely future Vice President of the United States, and possibly even President one day, to being a future former governor of South Dakota.  

Memo to the other 26 Republican governors: Don’t be like Kristi Noem. 

The reason for Noem’s reversal, she said, was a threat from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to withdraw tournament games and other sporting events from states that do not affirm “transgender rights.” The association has recently made good on that threat, issuing the

“The NCAA Board of Governors firmly and unequivocally supports the opportunity for transgender student-athletes to compete in college sports. This commitment is grounded in our values of inclusion and fair competition….When determining where championships are held, NCAA policy directs that only locations where hosts can commit to providing an environment that is safe, healthy and free of discrimination should be selected.”   

Anyone can see what’s going on here. It’s basically a form of extortion. The Left has never cared about sports, per se, except as an instrument of “social change.” Weenies that they are, Leftists aren’t really into the whole sweaty, physical competition thing. Nor do they believe in “the myth of meritocracy”—and no endeavor in life is more meritocratic than sports, where success depends entirely on ability, skill, and hard work.

Now the Left has co-opted the NCAA in its long, Gramscian march through the institutions. ..........To Read More...

Free States Must Strengthen Their Election Laws Despite the Works of the Woke

  It is up to “We the People” to re-affirm what it means to be an American, and what America means

By Dennis Jamison ——Bio and Archives--April 15, 2021

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 The hypocrisy and pseudo-compassion of the mega-corporations in conspiring against the state of Georgia has been on display since the state strengthened its election laws, and was heightened by the MLB retreat and removal of this year’s much acclaimed All-Star Game from the beleaguered state. At the core of this there exists an arrogance that only the despotic-minded, yet woke corporate elitists would be able to conjure up. Using the excuse of the Georgia election, MLB pulled the All-Star Game but was this effort the result of the election law, or was it because they mainly wanted to complete their deal with China?

Corporate bullying of the states into abandoning election integrity

Corporate bullying of any of the states into abandoning election integrity in the American tradition to provide fair elections for all people reveals a new level of internal attack from the Progressive/Leftist/Communist Criminal Cabal that is aligning with Globalist Elitists in order to seize control of the nation. This seems to have first surfaced during our last year’s presidential election as an organized “Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” as reported in a Time Magazine article earlier this year. Molly Ball’s article is quite revealing and indicates that the effort was initiated from the Left, but though the publicly designated “architect,” Mike Podhorzer, was praised in the piece, it is more likely that the real community-organizer-in-chief was Barack Obama. How else would he have gotten a third term as POTUS?............To Read More....

Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Includes Making ‘Diverse’ Neighborhoods Across America Through Zoning Laws

By Penny Starr 11 Apr 2021 

The focus of  President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure bill is allegedly to address aging infrastructure across the country, but the massive bill covers a vast amount of other spending, including money for “diversifying” neighborhoods.

This portion of Biden’s American Jobs Plan would change zoning laws to end single family home neighborhoods and allow for multiple unit “affordable” or low-income rental housing.

According to the White House Fact Sheet, the housing effort is “an innovative new approach to eliminate state and local exclusionary zoning laws, which drive up the cost of construction and keep families from moving to neighborhoods with more opportunities for them and their kids”:..........To Read More...

My Take -   First, let's get the obligatory caveat out of the way so I won't  have to repeat it.  There are many fine Americans who happen to be black.  Okay, happy?

In the meanwhile, do you like your nice quiet suburban neighborhood with low crime and little traffic? Biden aims to destroy it.  And we're surprised at this why?

When the federal government got involved in private real estate transactions and forced desegregation of neighborhoods this was inevitable, and in point of fact, this isn't a new innovation, it's been done before, with disastrous results.  It's political pandering and social engineering to appease the unappealing.

Racist? Discrimination? Prejudice?  Words that are all constantly being misused for political gain in order to 'shame' whites and impose white guilt on America. Here's what those words really mean.

• A racist simply hates people for the race to which they belong, just like that lady who was a co-founder of BLM who hates whites and wants to kill them. 
  
• Prejudice means to prejudge.
• Discrimination means to evaluate and decide what you like or dislike.

Here's the reality.  Not liking someone for the way they act isn't racism.  I don't dislike black people, however, I do dislike black culture, which has destroyed entire cities like Detroit in America.  

 

I didn't prejudge that culture, I evaluated that culture based on reality and found it wanting.  I find a culture that's filled with crime and abortions. I find that culture is filled with single parent families with multiple illegitimate out of control children, from different absentee fathers, who refuse to attend school and when they do they refuse to learn but are great at perpetrating violence, not only against weaker students, especially if they're white, but also against black students trying to learn for "acting white", and teachers.  

 

Black culture is a culture with a 70% illegitimacy rate,  grown men standing around on street corners in the middle of the day instead of on a job, and on the government dole.  A culture with a crime rate out of control per ratio to their population.

Bureau of Justice Statistics released its 2018 survey of criminal victimization. According to the study, there were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding homicide) between blacks and whites last year, including white-on-black and black-on-white attacks. Blacks committed 537,204 of those interracial felonies, or 90 percent, and whites committed 56,394 of them, or less than 10 percent............Blacks are also overrepresented among perpetrators of hate crimes—by 50 percent—according to the most recent Justice Department data from 2017; whites are underrepresented by 24 percent. This is particularly true for anti-gay and anti-Semitic hate crimes.

 

 In Color of Crime the author noted:

 

According to the Missouri Uniform Crime Report (MUCR), 408 suspects were arrested for murder and non negligent manslaughter in 2018. Two hundred eighty, or almost 69 percent, were black.  One hundred twenty-six, or just under 31 percent, were white, despite the 83 percent white population.  This means blacks were 15.5 times more likely than whites to be arrested for murder—and in this case, Hispanics are lumped in with “whites,” so the black/white difference is probably even greater.

It would be hard to argue that arrests of blacks reflect some kind of “police bias.” Murder is the crime all police departments take most seriously. The idea that the authorities are rounding up innocent blacks or deliberately letting off white killers is ridiculous.

There are many homicides in St. Louis, which had an estimated 135,150 non-Hispanic whites (about 42.9 percent) and 149,895 blacks (about 47.6 percent), with much smaller numbers of Hispanics, Asians, and mixed-race people.

Who’s doing the killing?

The city’s police department reports that in 2013, 2014, and 2015, over 95 percent of homicide suspects were black. The 2018 report listed 187 homicides, and over 83 percent—or 156—of the victims, were black. Twenty-six were white with one Hispanic and one “other.”

 

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 And I should think all that's fine?  Well, I don't! 

 

Now, for all those who have always lived in white neighborhoods, never travel in or through black neighborhoods, don't do business in black neighborhoods, never attended a black dominated school, don't send their children to black dominated schools, and would never in a million years live in a black neighborhood who wish to insist I'm a prejudiced discriminatory racist.  Well, I'm long past caring.

 

There's a reason why blacks want to live in white neighborhoods and why whites don't want to live in black neighborhoods.  And it's much like why citizens of communist nations will do anything to come to America and no one except lunatics want to live in communist controlled countries.  But if they did, there's no line to stand in if you want to live in Russia, China, Venezuela and that's true of where people want to live in America also.  

 

Let's not confuse pandering by calling it reality, fairness, equality or anything other than it is.  Hate filled leftist pandering, and it would be well to remember hate is one of the foundations of the Democrat party.  

 

They used to hate blacks and kept them as slaves.  No Republican ever owed a slave.  Then when it became popular, and politically convenient, they hated the Japanese and violated their Constitutional rights.  Now, it's convenient for them to hate whites and would more than happily end the Constitution to get what they want, and that's to end the American identity, American culture, American economy, destroy the Constitution and impose a tyrannical system of governance in it's place.

 

It isn't that they just hate whites, it's merely convenient.  After that, they can hate all of America.....openly!  Because the left is irrational, misanthropic and morally defective. 

 The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals

Big Data to the Rescue: The Electoral College Meets Data Pattern Science

November 13, 2020 By Jay Valentine

 

 Too many Americans who never had a civics class are learning about the Electoral College, which they are coming to realize may be James Madison’s “Do-Over Button” for times just like these.  (If you are under 35, Madison was a president a long time ago.)

The Electoral College is the last chance to stop a presidential election from going off a cliff.  Let’s take some examples. What if the presidential candidate of a leading party were caught taking bribes from an American enemy and that was learned after the vote counting began?  What if his son delivered prima facie evidence, and a witness stepped forward weeks before the election and the media suppressed it so the voters never heard a word?  What if a candidate were in early stage dementia and his party and the media hid it?  What if millions of American voices were suppressed utilizing social media, so only the voices of one party were allowed to speak?

Oh my gosh!  How could such things happen?

The Electoral College has a “do-over button.”  States fail to certify the vote, and Congress decides.  Remember, Congress is the house of the people -- Nancy Pelosi notwithstanding.  Madison and his pals actually thought that through over two hundred years ago, no kidding.   It applies only to the presidential vote, not to senators or representatives.  The Founders knew how important it was to get the executive thing right. So just how do we make a case to the Electoral College that massive voter fraud, on an industrial scale, thwarted the will of the American people?

Remember, the Electoral College at this point means six Republican legislatures in swing states!........To Read More...

• The Law Is There’s No Presidential Transition Until Congress Certifies the Election

The Founders Outsmarted the Presidential Election Fraudsters

Who chooses the President of the United States?

 

By Gary Gindler  @ American Thinker

 

This question is by no means rhetorical.  For example, the mass disinformation media has chosen Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election.  Many people liked this news, but I must disappoint them – the television broadcasters have, according to the U.S. Constitution, nothing to do with who will live in the White House for the next four years.

Maybe the Supreme Court chooses the President? No, the Constitution does not provide for this.  Could it be that the citizens of America choose their President? Following the U.S. Constitution, no.  So, who then chooses the President?

Before answering this question, let us note that, contrary to popular misconception, the President of the United States is not a representative of the American people.  State legislators and governors are representatives of the people, and at the federal level so are the members of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress.  (Currently, senators are also representatives of the people, but before the ratification of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution in 1913, they were appointed by state legislators).  So, who does the President of America represent?

The President of the United States of America, according to the Constitution, represents state legislators' interests and no one else.

In general, the federal government's structure in America reflects the numerous attempts of the Founding Fathers of the United States to introduce a system of effective state control over the federal government.  The fact is that the main difference between our country and all other countries, without exception, is that it was organized "from the bottom up," that is, individual colonies voluntarily united against a common enemy – the British Empire.  All other "republics" on the planet were created "from the top down," when the already existing provinces were graciously granted some independence by the already existing central government.

In building the American state, the fundamental principle was state control over the newly created federal power structure.  Therefore, from the Founding Fathers' point of view, the federal government in Washington should consist of both representatives of the people (congressmen) and representatives of the state leadership – the federal President and senators.  This is how the institution of the Electoral College was invented and implemented.  The electors are appointed by the state legislatures, and they are the ones who elect the President of the country.

So why do American citizens need to participate in the presidential elections? Well, strictly speaking, it is not necessary.  It is just that there is a long tradition in America – state legislators appoint electors in such a way that these appointments correspond to the mood of the people (in some states, this is even enshrined by law).  This is a tradition, but according to the U.S. Constitution, the participation of the people in presidential elections, generally speaking, is not required.  According to the Constitution, the people participate in the direct elections of their legislators, which is quite enough.

There is nothing reprehensible in this – after all, the President of America is not the representative of the American people.  He is the representative of state legislators.  From the point of view of the states, the President (and pre-1913, two senators from each state) are the "overseers" of the federal government.  In other words, the President, from the point of view of state legislators, is "our man in Havana" (that is, in Washington), who is responsible for the observance of state rights by the federal government.

Thus, under the Constitution, state legislators have the right to generally ignore the results of the voting of citizens of their state and appoint those who they deem necessary to the Electoral College.  Why did the Founding Fathers of the United States give state legislators such unprecedented power? Because most of the Founding Fathers were geniuses with impressive foresight.  They did not know precisely when this would happen, but they knew it would eventually happen: the election's published results would have nothing to do with how the citizens voted.

This is exactly what happened in 2020.

Of course, there have been falsifications in the counting of votes in America before.  However, in 2020, the Democrats went all-in with a scam, and for the first time in American history, they were close to success.  Actually, they simply had no other choice.  They knew very well that another Trump term would be enough to crush the American left to its core.  (However, even if Trump does not manage to stay in the White House, his departure from politics will be such that the left will not be envied.)

Now, more than a week after the elections, it is already clear what the Trump team is doing.  They are working in two directions.

First, they sue in states where there was a clear violation of the electoral law.  Violations include the counting of votes that came after polling stations closed, turnout of more than 100%, the use of computer systems that were systematically "wrong," always in favor of Biden, the thousands of Pennsylvania voters born on January 1, 1900 (or even on January 1, 1800), and much more.

For example, election results in some Democrat-controlled states violate fundamental laws of both mathematics and physics.  The votes cast for Biden do not comply with the statistical law of distribution of digits (Benford's Law), while the ballots cast for Trump do adhere to this law.  Thousands of mailed ballots were received even before they were officially sent.  Thus, the 2020 election showed compelling evidence of the possibility of time travel.

Secondly, the Trump team calls on state legislators to use their constitutional powers to rectify the local executive authority's criminal actions to the point of completely ignoring the falsified voting results.

These are the expected steps.  Any presidential candidate would and should take such measures.  Al Gore did the same in 2000, but then the case concerned only the state of Florida.  In 2000, the country did not know the name of the winner for 35 days, and in 2020 we should not expect a faster resolution of the issue because now we are talking about at least six "problem" states.

Only now is the reason for the frenzy with which the Democrats attacked the three Trump-nominated Supreme Court justices is becoming clear.  The fact is that the Trump-nominated current U.S. Supreme Court justices – Gorsuch, Kavanagh, and Barrett – were on Bush's legal team that secured the Supreme Court case in favor of Bush in 2000.

But the main difference between the 2020 elections and the 2000 elections is the involvement of the federal government's apparatus in investigating violations.  The investigation is carried out by both prosecutors of the Department of Justice and FBI agents.

According to the Constitution, all courts and all other voting problems must be resolved by the first Monday after the second Wednesday of December, which falls on December 14 this year.  If on December 14, the Electoral College fails to elect a president, then the Constitution also provides for this scenario.  Per the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, in this case, the President and Vice President will be elected by the House of Representatives (however, if for some reason the Vice President cannot be elected by the House of Representatives, then the right of his choice is transferred to the Senate.)

In the House of Representatives, state delegations will be voting, not the individual congressmen themselves.  Now in the House of Representatives, the majority of delegations – 26 – belong to Republicans.  In the Senate, the Republicans also have an advantage.  So, the only reason Trump can lose the election now, a week after the election, is his own admission of defeat.  But such a strange decision by Trump is unlikely – this guy is from Queens, and if he gets involved in a fight, he will see it through to the end.

It is also unlikely that Trump does not understand that if the chronic vote-rigging by Democrats is not stopped now, America will end.  The Trump team is well aware that such an opportunity to end the creeping socialist revolution may no longer be presented.

As a result, Democrats will likely not recover from this fraud.  The disinformation media (which Fox News joined on the election night) will not recover from deliberately covering up this fraud, this attempted coup.  If the Democrats went for broke, then Trump could, most likely, also go for broke.

Trump may have already destroyed the Democratic National Committee, but they just do not know it yet.

In military terms, Trump's team conducted careful reconnaissance and intelligence on the enemy for a week.  They collected numerous affidavits about the electoral fraud of Democrats, witnesses who confirm their testimony under oath.  But on the evening of November 10, the reconnaissance was completed, and massive artillery bombardment began in the form of lawsuits in several key states and the initiation of criminal investigations into violations by the Department of Justice.  If this does not help, Trump will bring into the battle the strategic reserves available only to the President of the American state apparatus – for example, in the form of a complete declassification of Obamagate.  In any case, our country is by no means at the end; we are at the very beginning of this process.

From a legal perspective, Biden is an impostor, a false president, at least until December 14 of this year.  If Biden can declare himself President-elect without any legal basis, then any other American citizen can also declare himself President-elect.

Therefore, I am forced to repeat my advice once again – to survive in this leftist madhouse, turn off the TV and start thinking for yourself.  If you have read the article so far, you will definitely succeed.  And remember – if the laws in our country are still observed, then the chances of the Harris-Biden administration (in this order) are practically zero.  If the laws in America are not followed, then the great American political experiment will unfortunately end.

Gary Gindler, Ph.D., is a conservative columnist at Gary Gindler Chronicles and the founder of a new science: Politiphysics. Follow him on Twitter and Quodverum.

 

 

 

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Newsom Continues to Bully the Church Despite President's Directive

By David Martin —— Bio and Archives--May 28, 2020

In an attempt to continue state surveillance of churches because of COVID-19, Governor Newsom of California has all but ignored President Trump’s directive to allow churches to reopen without interference from the state.  At a press briefing on May 22, the president made it clear that governors and state officials were given until the weekend to lay off the churches by allowing them to reopen without restrictions and regulations.

“I call upon governors to allow our churches and places of worship to open right now,” the president said. “If they don’t do it I will override the governors.”

The president said nothing about allowing continued restrictions but ardently defended religious groups that are demanding a full return of their religious practice in church. “The people are demanding to go to church and synagogue,” he said. “Many millions of Americans embrace worship as an essential part of life.” ............To Read More....

My Take - At this point it's clear these public officials have forgotten their power is not inherent, it's borrowed from a citizenry that grants them the power.  It's now time to take it away.  This action by Governor Newsom is now longer a State's Rights issue.   It seems to me this clearly is a First Amendment issue, and as such the federal government can step in.  

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Trump: What’s up, Doc?

April 19, 2020 By Clarice Feldman

 

A Facebook friend likened the President to Bugs Bunny, chomping on his carrot and making fun of his enemies. And this week it certainly seems that way as the page flips from "everybody’s–an-epidemiology expert" to "we are now all constitutional scholars."

 

On April 14 Trump said he was the “absolute authority” on when to relax the shutdown and two days later, based on fact, he noted that the virus seemed to have peaked, circumstances were different in different places of the country, and it was up to the governors of each state to determine mitigation strategies appropriate for their states following some national guidelines. 

The new guidelines are aimed at easing restrictions in areas with low transmission of the coronavirus, while holding the line in harder-hit locations. They make clear that the return to normalcy will be a far longer process than Trump initially envisioned, with federal officials warning that some social distancing measures may need to remain in place through the end of the year to prevent a new outbreak. And they largely reinforce plans already in the works by governors, who have primary responsibility for public health in their states. 

"You’re going to call your own shots," Trump told the governors Thursday afternoon in a conference call, according to an audio recording obtained by the Associated Press. "We’re going to be standing alongside of you."

Places with declining infections and strong testing would begin a three-phase gradual reopening of businesses and schools......To Read More......

New Rule to Limit State Government Abuse of Clean Water Act for Climate Activism

Ben Lieberman • August 9, 2019

 

 Making good on a promise made in an April 10th Executive Order entitled Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a rule restricting states from abusing the Clean Water Act to pursue a climate agenda.

Section 401 of the Clean Water Act gives states whose waters may be adversely affected by a project the authority to block it for failing to comply with water quality protections in the statute. However, in recent years this provision has been employed by some states to veto projects, not for any water quality reasons, but in order to block fossil-fuel infrastructure projects...........To Read More....

They're Back: States' Rights and Secession Democrats

With talk of nullification to "protect" illegal aliens and an outright break from the Union, Democrats are rediscovering their roots

By J. Robert Smith

Democrats are rediscovering their roots. States' rights assertions and secession talk, long the domain of disaffected conservatives, are being embraced by today's Democrats. Donald J. Trump's ascendancy to the presidency is estranging Democrats, they say. John C. Calhoun might be smiling from his eternal perch.

Attempts to nullify federal law and talk about breaking away states by Democrats may open a Pandora's box. Pushing for state defiance of Uncle Sam invites red-state conservatives to do likewise in future times, when an Obama clone becomes president and Democrats run Congress – provided, of course, that the U.S. is still intact.

Californians, in particular, are fueling new norms with their determination to be a sanctuary state. Declaring a state a safe haven for illegals defies federal laws. The president has a constitutional and statutory obligation to enforce those laws. But no matter. Democrats are making a bold declaration: states' "rights" supersede federal laws. Red states are taking note. What's good for California today may be good for Texas down the road......  More

My Take - I say let them go, and then declare war on a Monday morning - conquer them by lunch - turn them into two or three territories with military governors on Tuesday - then have Presidentially appointed governors in two weeks.  After that let them work to show they're deserving to become states once again - in five or ten years.  With the exception of the conservative counties, they will retain the seats already California has in the Senate, whom they will now appoint.  All new Resprsentatives will be chosen by a special election.  All monies accrued in the reitrement plans from the previous Senators and Representatives will be lost to them and that money will go to the Social Security Administration.

Democrats try their hand at nullification

By J. Marsolo

Prior to the Civil War, some states advocated a theory of constitutional law that each state has a right to nullify, or not follow, a federal law. The basis of this argument is that each state retains enough sovereignty to decide the constitutionality of laws. The purpose was to have federal law not apply in the state if the state disagreed with the law on constitutional grounds. The theory started with John Taylor of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. They belonged to Democrat-Republican Party, which opposed President John Adams, of the Federalist Party, over the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. Specifically, they opposed the Sedition Act that made it a crime to criticize the government. Taylor, Madison, and Jefferson argued that a state can judge whether a federal law is constitutional. It was part of the states' rights doctrine......... More

My Take - It amazes me these people can find their way to the bathroom by themselves, and when they do, I'm not sure they know what to do there.  A few things exemplify everything the left does.  They are oblivious to history, facts, consistency of thought is completely alien to them, and will resort to violence when they don't get their way.  What does that sound like to you?  It sounds like a bunch of overgrown spoiled brats to me.  Most of whom live with their parents.   

Why have the states allowed so much federal government overreach into their homes?

By Kathleen Marquardt

In so many ways, the federal government has encroached, no, taken over control of states. With the Waters of the United States, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Regionalism, Smart Cities, ICLEI, Green Mayors, and on, and on, the federal government controls what happens in every city, county, town, state of the United States.

Congressmen Mike Lee and Paul Gosar have introduced legislation to do away with AFFH. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it? But go back a couple of decades, in 1992 George H.W, Bush signed the Rio Declaration, Agenda 21, but it never was brought up for a vote in Congress. The next year Bill Clinton became president and assigned VP Al Gore to head "The President's Commission on Sustainable Development." Gore did a bang-up job with it, embedded it into every department of the federal government, then shut down the Commission saying that it was gone, nothing to be afraid of.

Nope, nothing to be afraid of.

Those departments, especially HUD and DOT, went on to give grants (with permanent strings attached) to all of the lower governments in the states. Besides getting local governments to sign on to stringent environment regs that restrict and even frequently steal private property, they have been developing Regionalism in all of the states......To Read More....

18 States Sue Feds Over Expanding ‘Critical Habitat’ to Areas With No Protected Species

By Barbara Hollingsworth

Eighteen states have filed a lawsuit against the federal government over Final Rules that expand the definition of “critical habitat” to include areas that are currently unoccupied by any threatened or endangered species.   The Final Rules, Listing Endangered and Threatened Species and Designating Critical Habitat, which were published in the Federal Register on February 11 and went into effect March 14, expand the definition of “critical habitat” to include areas in which “species presence or habitats are ephemeral in nature, [or] species presence is difficult to establish through surveys (e.g. when a plant’s ‘presence’ is sometimes limited to a seed bank).”

“The Final Rules are an unlawful attempt to expand regulatory authority and control over State land and waters,” argues the multi-state lawsuit, which was filed November 20th in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama against Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, and the National Marine Fisheries and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services by Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange.  The Final Rules allow the Services to declare areas occupied critical habitat that are not occupied by the species and that could not support the species were it moved there on the supposition that one day the essential physical and biological features might develop and the species might return,” according to the lawsuit......To Read More.....

My Take - If there ever was a reason for repealing the ESA this is it.  We can thank Richard Nixon for this.  It still stuns be how many so-called conservatives think of Nixon as their hero. 

Gov. Scott Rejects Common Core As An ‘Intrusion’ In Florida’s Academic Standards

By Alissa Tabirian September 24, 2013 - 4:04 PM

Florida Governor Rick Scott issued an executive order Monday rejecting the Common Core educational initiative adopted in 2010 by the Florida State Board of Education (BOE) and endorsed by former Gov. Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Florida’s Future as a “Federal government intrusion” into his state’s right to set its own academic standards.

“The Federal government has no constitutional authority to unilaterally set academic standards for Florida, nor any authority to unilaterally direct local school board decisions on curriculum and instruction,” Scott’s executive order stated.

“Floridians will not accept Federal government intrusion into the academic standards that are taught to our students in our classrooms and will not tolerate the Federal government using such standards to coerce policy decisions at the state or local level,” it continued. - See more at:

Boxer wants to redo bipartisan deal on toxics law

Sen. Barbara Boxer opposes the deal by the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg because she says it usurps California laws on toxic chemicals.

By Carolyn Lochhead

July 18, 2013

Washington -- Before he died last month, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a liberal New Jersey Democrat, had negotiated a bipartisan deal to replace a law signed by President Gerald Ford that for nearly 40 years has prevented the federal government from assessing the safety of tens of thousands of industrial chemicals in everyday use.

After Lautenberg died of pneumonia June 3 at age 89, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, began to derail the bill he had spent years working on, saying it would usurp California's rules on toxic chemicals…..To Read More….

My Take – I love this.  Since when has Boxer or any of her loony green friends ever been concerned with local or state laws regarding pesticides or any other chemical for that matter?  Now all of a sudden they're concerned that state law will be pre-empted.  All of a sudden state law should take precedence over federal law.  What a change of heart.  Is it possible they would be willing to apply that thinking to every state over every issue? 

The thing that everyone really needs to understand is the greenies have no love of facts or consistency of thought.  They will passionately take a position and just a passionately take the reverse position if it suits their immediate needs.   

Why would we listen to people such as this?   

These people are irrational, misanthropic and morally defective.  We have plenty of history to show their programs harm humanity and the environment.  So why is that so hard to understand these people are insane?