States rebel against Washington
Christian Science Monitor
03/27/09
There’s an old joke in South Carolina: Confederate President Jefferson Davis may have surrendered at the Burt-Stark mansion in Abbeville, S.C., in 1865, but the people of state Rep. Michael Pitts’s district never did. With revolutionary die-hards behind him, Mr. Pitts has fired a warning shot across the bow of the Washington establishment. As the writer of one of 28 state ’sovereignty bills’ … Pitts is at the forefront of a states’ rights revival, reasserting their say on everything from stem cell research to the Second Amendment. … Just as California under President Bush asserted itself on issues ranging from gun control to medical marijuana, a motley cohort of states … are presenting a foil for President Obama’s national ambitions. And they’re laying the groundwork for a political standoff over the 10th Amendment, which cedes all power not granted to Washington to the people...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0327/p02s01-usgn.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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States Rebellion Pending
By Walter E. Williams
Our constitutional ignorance-perhaps contempt, coupled with the fact that we've become a nation of wimps, sissies and supplicants-has made us easy prey for Washington's tyrannical forces. But that might be changing a bit. There are rumblings of a long overdue re-emergence of Americans' characteristic spirit of rebellion.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22303.htm
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+E.+Williams
03/27/09
There’s an old joke in South Carolina: Confederate President Jefferson Davis may have surrendered at the Burt-Stark mansion in Abbeville, S.C., in 1865, but the people of state Rep. Michael Pitts’s district never did. With revolutionary die-hards behind him, Mr. Pitts has fired a warning shot across the bow of the Washington establishment. As the writer of one of 28 state ’sovereignty bills’ … Pitts is at the forefront of a states’ rights revival, reasserting their say on everything from stem cell research to the Second Amendment. … Just as California under President Bush asserted itself on issues ranging from gun control to medical marijuana, a motley cohort of states … are presenting a foil for President Obama’s national ambitions. And they’re laying the groundwork for a political standoff over the 10th Amendment, which cedes all power not granted to Washington to the people...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0327/p02s01-usgn.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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States Rebellion Pending
By Walter E. Williams
Our constitutional ignorance-perhaps contempt, coupled with the fact that we've become a nation of wimps, sissies and supplicants-has made us easy prey for Washington's tyrannical forces. But that might be changing a bit. There are rumblings of a long overdue re-emergence of Americans' characteristic spirit of rebellion.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22303.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Walter+E.+Williams
rudkla - 27. Mär, 09:35
