State's Rights Friday, July 22nd, 2011
By JESS BRAVIN, The Wall Street Journal MISSOULA, Mont.—With a homemade .22-caliber rifle he calls the Montana Buckaroo, Gary Marbut dreams of taking down the federal regulatory state. He’s not planning to fire his gun. Instead, he wants to sell it, free from federal laws requiring him to record transactions, pay license fees and open [...]
State's Rights Friday, July 1st, 2011
RIVERSIDE (CBS) — Is the state of California about to go “South”?
States’ Rights Live On
Constitution, State's Rights Thursday, June 16th, 2011
The fundamental principle of states’ rights survives—at least in South Carolina. The Palmetto State’s House chamber last month passed a measure standing up to a federal “green” law. The law requires all Americans to buy new-fangled light bulbs to save energy, even if it doesn’t save our eyesight and even if it can make us ill.
State's Rights Monday, June 6th, 2011
By Josh Rogers, NHPR.org A day after making his 2012 presidential run official Republican Mitt Romney campaigned in Manchester. NHPR’s Josh Rogers reports. Speaking at a town-hall style meeting, Romney stressed economic issues. He criticized President Obama’s ideas as “awfully european” and laced his remarks with references to the founding fathers and states’ rights. “I [...]
Liberals in southern Arizona seek to form new state
Constitution, State's Rights Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – A long-simmering movement by liberal stalwarts in southern Arizona to break away from the rest of the largely conservative state is at a boiling point as secession backers press to bring their longshot ambition to the forefront of Arizona politics.
State's Rights Thursday, April 28th, 2011
On the heels of an election that reacted strongly to the Obama Administration’s agenda, several Texas legislators filed bills early in the session to take a bold stand for state’s rights.
Brewer Signs Bill Giving Tea Party-Backed Flag Same Status as U.S. Flag
Headlines, Liberty, State's Rights Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Published April 19, 2011 FoxNews.com Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law this week a bill that prevents homeowners associations from banning the black-on-yellow Gadsden flags — the Tea Party-favored banners displaying the coiled rattlesnake and “Don’t Tread on Me” message. Under the new law, the flag has the same protected status as the American [...]
Palin: Wis. gov doing the right thing with unions
Headlines, State's Rights Monday, April 18th, 2011
By TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press – Sat Apr 16, 6:27 pm ET MADISON, Wis. – Sarah Palin defended Wisconsin’s governor at a tea party tax day rally Saturday, telling hundreds of supporters that his polarizing union rights law is designed to save public jobs. Braving snow showers and a frigid wind outside the state Capitol building, the former Alaska [...]
State's Rights Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
By LaborUnionReport, RedState On Tuesday afternoon, the GOP-led House in New Hampshire voted 221-131 to make the Granite State the 23rd state in the nation to outlaw unions’ ability to have workers fired for not paying union dues. The bill to make New Hampshire a Right-to-Work state now moves to the New Hampshire Senate where [...]
State's Rights Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
“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.” – The 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution With the big Republican wins in the November 2010 elections, there seemed to be a common thread among [...]