Michael Boldin, founder of the heroic Tenth Amendment Center , reports that he’s never received more angry replies from an email sent by his organization than to this nice Christmas appeal: THANK YOU. Making the transition to a fulltime grassroots activist a few years ago has brought with… Read More
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Nullification Movie!
The Foundation for a Free Society and the Tenth Amendment Center have teamed up to produce a documentary about nullification, Thomas Jefferson’s idea for restraining the federal government. Yes, this is outside the glorious Biden/Romney “mainstream” and thus the various thought-control groups that monitor unapproved opinions in our country will be up in… Read More
The Anniversary That (Almost) Everyone Overlooked
Yesterday was the 213th anniversary of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, that great Jeffersonian document that made the case for state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws. I meant to blog about this but simply forgot. (In my defense, I have been feeling under the weather,… Read More
Blowing a Protester’s Mind
Here’s Michael Boldin, showing how it’s done. Making a Protester’s Head Explode from Tenth Amendment Center on Vimeo .
Report from New Hampshire
The Nullify Now event at Southern New Hampshire University was, as expected, a big success. This was the first time protesters showed up to one of our events. They thought we were funded by Koch money or something. (That’s typical of how tone-deaf I generally… Read More
How to Make a Reporter’s Head Explode
The Tenth Amendment Center’s Michael Boldin shows how it’s done .
Nullification vs. Slavery
Thanks to the brilliant mind of Michael Boldin, founder of the Tenth Amendment Center , the next Nullify Now event takes place March 5 in the Harriet Tubman Theater at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati , and centers around the heroic story of accused fugitive slave Joshua Glover. The… Read More
Don’t Listen to Jefferson
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… Read More
State Nullification
What Is It? State nullification is the idea that the states can and must refuse to enforce unconstitutional federal laws. Says Who? Says Thomas Jefferson, among other distinguished Americans. His draft of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 first introduced the word “nullification” into American political… Read More
Ep. 1357 Surprise: Official Libertarianism Ignores These Two Heroes
People say libertarians aren’t interested in good news, and that bad news sells. I’m not sure I buy that, or that that’s a specifically libertarian trait. Regardless, I have good news today. Today’s episode is a tribute to two partially unsung heroes of liberty. Official… Read More