Amish Farmer Closes Raw Milk Business After Feds Slap Injunction on Him
Hundreds of families in the state of Maryland have just seen their source of fresh, raw milk dry up thanks to the U.S. government. The Justice Department, at the urging of...
Constitution
Alaska Bill Would Criminalize TSA Screening Procedures
Alaska State Representative Sharon Cissna (left) has introduced a bill to criminalize TSA pat-downs and naked-body scans, adding The Last Frontier to a growing list of states battling the intrusive screening...
Oklahoma Legislator Introduces NDAA Nullifying Resolution
Another brave state legislator has joined the resistance to federal tyranny by defending the constitutional right of states to govern themselves. On February 3, Oklahoma Rep. Charles Key (R-Oklahoma City, left)...
Georgia High Court Rules Assisted Suicide Law Unconstitutional
Georgia’s Supreme Court has overturned a law banning advertising for assisted suicide, ruling that it unconstitutionally restricts free speech. The legislature had enacted the law in 1994 in an attempt to...
Coalition of Patriot Groups Unite to Oppose NDAA
The Intolerable Acts was the name used by American colonists to describe a series of oppressive measures passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to the amount of self-government permissible...
House Passes Line-Item Veto; Senate Support Grows
It is increasingly difficult to distinguish the friends of liberty from the foes. Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is perceived by Republicans to be a “conservative,” but despite that misleading label, Ryan...
NRA Warns That Obama Would Assault Gun Rights in 2nd Term
If President Obama is reelected in 2012, he would unlawfully seek to infringe upon the God-given right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,...
Lawyer for Gitmo Detainee Challenges Mail-reading Rule
An attorney for an American accused of conspiring to carry out the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia...
Courts and Dept of Justice Agree: Videotaping Police is OK
Ken Paulsen (left), president and CEO of the First Amendment Center, wrote in USA Today that “just as police officers use technology to watch citizens, including patrol car cameras, traffic light...
The U.S. Constitution: Too Old to be Attractive?
Hot on the heals of the news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested that new nations look elsewhere for their constitutional inspiration than to our own founding charter of...
Federal Court Rules Against Traditional Marriage in California
In a long anticipated decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that California’s Proposition 8, which effectively defines marriage as only between a man and woman, amounts to an unconstitutional violation...
Government Asks Supreme Court for More Time to Defend ObamaCare
On Friday attorneys for the Obama administration filed a motion with the Supreme Court requesting more time in which to make its oral arguments in defense of ObamaCare. ...
Paul Ryan Proposes Giving President Obama Line Item Veto Power
The Washington Post reports: "It’s not often that Congress voluntarily surrenders power, and even less common for both parties to agree to do so." ...
Missouri State Senator Introduces Nullification Bill
In Federalist No. 46, James Madison predicted: But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single...
Washington State Lawmakers Join War on NDAA Indefinite Detention
Lawmakers in Washington State joined a growing nationwide rebellion this week against the federal government’s purported new power to indefinitely detain Americans suspected of certain crimes under the 2012 National Defense...