I don’t know who Paul Zummo is, but I know he wrote this .  It’s the usual arguments against nullification, as if no replies to them existed. He tries to claim, first, that James Madison, in the Virginia Resolutions of 1798, wasn’t calling for nullification; he was…
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A preview of the Great Debate ?  See Bob’s fantastic piece .

Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the head of the Vatican’s bank, has denounced the Keynesian economic policies that are wreaking havoc on the Western world, and recommends the book Where Keynes Went Wrong by Austrian School economist Hunter Lewis.  Doesn’t he know it’s heresy to believe in the time preference theory of interest…
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Given the nitwits we must endure on our TV networks and in the rest of the media, it’s doubly outrageous when genuinely talented and smart people do not receive the recognition and exposure they deserve.  And say what you will about left-liberals and neoconservatives, but…
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…Ian Millhiser of the hilariously misnamed ThinkProgress, who says, “The Constitution expressly states that Acts of Congress ‘shall be the supreme law of the land…anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding,’ so our founding document specifically denies the states…
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I’ll be speaking at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) again this year, this time about my book Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse , which will be released on February 7.  My talk takes place at 2pm on Thursday, February 10, and I’ll be signing books at 4:30pm.  From 6:30-8:00pm I’ll…
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My new book, Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse , is slated for release on February 7.  Dan McCarthy, editor of The American Conservative , wrote to say, “Rollback is phenomenal, by the way: not only is it up to your usual standards of eloquence and argument, but the sheer amount of new data…
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It’s worth recalling important passages from James Madison’s famous Report of 1800 in light of the many uninformed criticisms of nullification (e.g., “Why, the courts are our infallible judges!”): “The resolution of the General Assembly [the Virginia Resolutions of 1798] relates to those great and…
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This blooper reel is funnier than the Interview With a Zombie video itself, which I made to promote my book Nullification .

The Idaho legislature is considering a bill to nullify the Obama health-care law.  According to the Idaho Statesman , “The impetus for Idaho’s proposed action comes from Thomas E. Woods Jr., the author of Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century . Woods spoke at Boise State on Nov. 10 in a speech sponsored by the Idaho…
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