Last night I participated in something quite amazing by any standard, something with truly revolutionary potential. Three U.S. historians (Kevin Gutzman, Brion McClanahan, and I), each one an author in…
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Amazon has been fluctuating between — oddly enough — $19 and $7 for Rollback , my misleadingly (and boringly) packaged but possibly best book. At a moment’s notice it zips all…
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My speech from Nullify Now, Philadelphia, this past Saturday. Listen at least through my Norway joke. Then, if you’re so inclined, check out Nullification and Rollback , referred to in the video.…
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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…
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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…
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My 2011 book Rollback was packaged all wrong. The publisher pitched it to Tea Party people, which could have been all right except the book was therefore portrayed as just another…
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Update on nullification, and on the thought-control smearbund that goes hysterical whenever the idea is mentioned.

The Tenth Amendment Center reports: State and local resistance to detention provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act continues to snowball. On Tuesday, the Virginia House overwhelming passed “A BILL to prevent any…
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We should fear all power, to be sure, but Robert Wicks adds to the case for decentralization. See also my “ Nullification: Answering the Objections .”

A bill has been introduced into the Virginia legislature that would in effect nullify the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Numerous other states are contemplating…
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