THOMAS (Library of Congress) Why Switzerland Has The Lowest Crime Rate In The World. Cryptome - Spying Guidelines. Barefoot's World. State launches boycott of 'unconstitutional' federal laws. Text smaller Text bigger Tennessee is urging 49 other states to come together and create a “joint working group among the states” to combat unconstitutional federal legislation and assert state rights.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen signed H.J.R. 108, the State Sovereignty Resolution, on June 23. According to the Tenth Amendment Center, the resolution created a committee to form a joint working group among the states to enumerate the abuses of authority by the federal government and seek repeal of imposed mandates. State Rep. “The national government has become a complex system of programs whose purposes lie outside of the responsibilities of the enumerated powers and of securing our natural rights, programs that benefit some while others must pay,” Lynn wrote. Lynn said that the people created the federal government to be their agent only for certain enumerated purposes. The letter was distributed to holders of federal firearms licenses. In it, Carson W. The idea is spreading quickly. Brennan Center For Justice. Quotes - Let's Talk Sense. Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) "What good fortune for those in power that the people do not think. " "Through clever and constant application of propaganda people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. " "It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them.
" Adolf Hitler" "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. "My ideal of education is hard. “The Jewish people are to be exterminated,” says every party member. "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. "Once a government resorts to terror against its own population to get what it wants, it must keep using terror against its own population to get what it wants. The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency.
SCOTUSblog. Libertarian Quotes. It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. The Year of Reading Politically, No. 6: the 1930s Over the last few months, as I’ve looked at 120 years of novels about American politics, I’ve been surprised how often American writers have filtered their experiences of the political process into dystopian novels.
The combination of a charismatic politician, shadowy advisers and a rabid collection of supporters are often grist for a plot that ultimately points to the downfall of the American way. Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here (1935) is one of the best known of these types of novels. It chronicles the rise to the presidency of Sen. Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip, a folksy politician from a western state with a devoted following of bitter, unemployed or underemployed men. Windrip defeats Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the 1936 Democratic convention, then defeats the Republican candidate and several third party candidates — including Roosevelt — to win the election in November.
Break the Dam: Access to Public Information in Texas. OpenCongress - Track bills, votes, senators, and representatives in the U.S. Congress. Project Vote Smart - State Officials of Texas. Texas Open Records Search. OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics.