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Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s Restoring American Exceptionalism Free Townhall

The Tenth Amendment Center is proud to sponsor:

Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s Restoring American Exceptionalism Free Townhall”

It’s being held January 28th at 2pm at the Hershey Convention Center.  The event is free and open to all but you do need a ticket to attend.  Just click here to register: http://schoolchoicehershey.eventbrite.com/

Our confirmed speakers are: (more…)

18th Century Meanings of Happiness and Liberty

In this Glenn Beck interview,

Rick Santorum tells us that the 18th century definition of happiness is, “to do the morally right thing”.  When I heard this, I was surprised and fascinated, but also suspicious, so I decided to see if I could confirm that.  First, I checked the Dictionary of the English language by Samuel Johnson (1768, 3rd edition), where I found this… (more…)

Debating the Health Care Insurance Exchange

This message came in this morning’s e-mail.  Sorry some of the formatting got scrambled in the transposition from e-mail to web.

The Lehigh Valley COALITION for Health Care Reform presents:

Everything You Wanted to Know About:

Creating a Health Insurance Exchange in PA

(but didn’t know who to ask)

WHAT: Debate on the Creation of a Health Care Exchange in PA, as mandated by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

WHEN: 6:30 – 8 p.m., Wednesday, February 1, 2012

WHERE: Ground Floor Meeting Room, Bethlehem Area Public Library 11 W. Church St., Bethlehem, PA 18018 (more…)

Envirostition

This video was shared in my facebook news stream today. Catchy tune…

Note how the video conveniently debunks itself at 1:15.  No chance that facts will interfere with the cultists’ mythology, though.   Maybe next they’ll sit us all around a campfire and tell us the story about how the Department of Agriculture saved Yorick the Brave from being eaten by a two headed dragon.

Some Ideas About Individualism

“Individual salvation depends on collective salvation.”, Barack Obama

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Independent of and Superior to the Civil Power.

Declaration of Independence:

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. (more…)

Action Alert: Tell Governor Corbett, Say "NO" to the Health Care Exchange

This came in e-mail from Mark Driver of the Valley Forge Patriots

PATRIOTS,

Governor Corbett recently (and very quietly) decided to move ahead with a federally approved health insurance exchange for Pennsylvania.  This move serves to legitimize Obamacare (PPACA).   There were a couple of Insurance Department hearings on this that included testimony from the usual group of suspects , basically unions, insurance companies, hospitals, and every other special interest group hoping for more government subsidies.

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How Dare They?

Debt Slavery: Debt bondage (or bonded labour) is when a person pledges him or herself against a loan.   In debt bondage, the services required to repay the debt may be undefined, and the services’ duration may be undefined.  Debt bondage can be passed on from generation to generation.

With more than $15 Trillion in debt, our government has institutionalized debt bondage against our adults, our children and even against generations yet unborn.  Yet, our legacy media remains mostly silent.

Instead, they smugly and self-righteously lecture Victoria’s Secret for allowing children to work, (presumably) voluntarily and with the consent of their parents in order to lift themselves out of poverty.

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RobertRinger.com: Nullification and Obamacare

Reprinted from here -by Robert Ringer, Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The upcoming Supreme Court review of the constitutionality of Obamacare once again highlights a point that best-selling author Thomas Woods has made so clearly in many of his writings — that having one branch of government rule on a dispute that involves another branch is a ruse.

In the case of Obamacare, this ruse is especially clear, because one of the judges, Elena Kagan, has been waving the pompoms for this unconstitutional piece of legislation from the time of its conception.  In fact, as Obama’s Solicitor General, she was intimately involved in formulating Obamacare and in preparing legal arguments to defend it.  Her e-mail trail is downright embarrassing.

Based on Judge Kagan’s indisputable involvement with Obamacare, according to federal statute, she must — repeat, mustrecuse herself because of her obvious conflict of interest.  But will she?  Not likely.  The Political Class in Washington doesn’t give a damn about laws if they pertain to their own actions. (more…)

Video: Beagle Freedom Project

Lesley Swann, of the Tennessee Tenth Amendment Center posted this video in facebook…

This is a case in point as to why the federal government should stop meddling in scientific research.

Although it’s sad to think about (as is butchering animals for our food), I think animal research is definitely necessary; But when government subsidies are brought to bear, political cronyism does additional harm to animals that cannot possibly be justified by an offset in human well-being.

Not just that, but there are some people who are ethically opposed to animal research under any circumstance.  Whether you agree with them or not, forcing such a person to contribute money to pay for animal research, involuntarily, is reprehensible.


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