No one doubts that our understanding of historical figures may need to be revisited from time to time. But academic specialists have been known to overreach. To portray a historical figure in a light exactly opposed to the popular impression and to how all other… Read More
What Did the Supremacy Clause Mean?
That poor soul from the other day who insisted Lincoln never said that blacks shouldn’t be voters or jurors, or intermarry with white people, or that he had no intention to interfere with slavery where it existed, still thinks the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause makes state nullification unconstitutional. The… Read More
Shut Up and Memorize Your Fourth-Grade Textbook
Today I had someone tweet me this message: “Nullification is idiotic and unconstitutional.” Not an unusual opinion, to be sure; it’s held by the New York Times, Mitt Romney, and Hillary Clinton. My critic, such as he is, has simply absorbed all the presuppositions of… Read More
Santorum: Romney “Worst Republican” to Run Against Obama
Says a Washington Post story linked from Drudge. Would that be the same Romney Santorum himself endorsed in 2008?
Live Woods Video Q&A on Tuesday!
I’ll be answering viewer-submitted questions live this Tuesday night, March 27, at 9:30pm ET at LibertyChat.com . Also that night you’ll have a chance to watch and/or ask questions of the Tenth Amendment Center’s Michael Boldin, RonPaulFlix.com ‘s Israel Anderson, and economist Robert P. Murphy. These Q&A… Read More
NSA Builds Million Square Foot Spying Facility; Americans Yawn
Now understand that the information gathered by the NSA would never, ever be used for political purposes, for blackmail, or for anything else other than keeping “us” “safe.” And even though the federal government has consistently lied about its eavesdropping and information-gathering programs, Americans seem… Read More
The So-Called Iranian Nuclear Threat
Anthony Gregory quotes a Reuters report that observes: The United States, European allies and even Israel generally agree on three things about Iran’s nuclear program: Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear… Read More
There’s an Outrage in the World and All I Did Was Buy This Lousy T-Shirt
Look, I love Blimey Cow . They make a new video every Monday. This one goes after a pet peeve I’m sure a lot of us have.
See Me in Philadelphia and Des Moines!
I hope you Philadelphia and New Jersey people will be attending Nullify Now Philadelphia next Saturday, where I’ll be speaking alongside Sheriff Richard Mack and others. This will be a great time. Check it out . Then, on April 4, I’ll be speaking in Des Moines at Drake… Read More
Oil Speculators and Iran
The great economist Bob Murphy is now making videos for his YouTube channel . I hope he’ll follow the $1,000,000 suggestion I gave him some months ago, but as I wait for that, I present to you his most recent video, on oil speculation.
