By KSEE News The federal government is cracking down hard on statewide marijuana grows. Four U.S. Attorneys are spear-heading a campaign that will shut down commercial dispensaries and large-scale outdoor grows. The U.S. Attorneys stood in solidarity. “Commercial marijuana operations are illegal and we will enforce federal laws,” said U.S. Attorney Ben Wagner. These prosecutors [...]
By Bruce Walker, The American Thinker Pundits and politicians are unhappy about how we elect the president. State legislatures, which have the constitutional power to determine how their states’ presidential electors are chosen, are currently looking at two different approaches to correcting perceived problems in the election process. The National Popular Vote Compact is a [...]
By Alicia M. Cohn, The Hill Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney defended government mandates Tuesday night, in the process revealing some similarities to his primary competition for the GOP nomination. “The government of course has a lot of mandates,” Romney told Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly. “I know folks don’t like that. Mandates that kids go [...]
By April Hunt, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Southern battle colors are flying again, this time as part of an effort to unfurl huge Confederate flags along Georgia’s interstates. Among the three flags that have gone up so far is a car dealership-sized Southern Cross north of Tifton that measures 30-by-50 feet. Two others are in [...]
Gov. Rick Perry, taking flak from social conservatives and a potential rival in the GOP presidential contest, took a step back from his laissez-faire approach to New York’s gay marriage law on Thursday.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley isn’t retreating from her decision to keep the Confederate flag atop the north end of the Statehouse in Columbia despite complaints from the NAACP, whose president this week said the ethnic minority governor is a “contradiction” for allowing the flag to fly.
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 [...]
RIVERSIDE (CBS) — Is the state of California about to go “South”?
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.
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 [...]
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