Thursday, August 31, 2017

10 Objections to Nullification–Refuted Nullification, also known as State interposition, is controversial because it challenges the Supreme Court’s monopoly on constitutional interpretation. The argument behind nullification is that the States—as parties to the compact that created the federal government—have a right to interpret the Constitution and veto acts where the federal government exceeds its delegated power. Genuine nullification involves a State’s declaration of unconstitutionality and obstruction of that federal law within its territory.

The majority of historians and legal scholars today dismiss nullification, but they rarely engage the arguments in support of the practice. Here are 10 of their most common objections to nullification, followed by a refutation.

(1) Nullification does not work.

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Posted by Brock Townsend at Thursday, August 31, 2017 No comments: Links to this post Trump to bring back work requirements for Americans on welfare....... ........reversing an Obama-era policy that had encouraged states to apply for waivers that would exempt welfare recipients from needing to prove that they were either working or receiving job training.

Requiring work or job training was an integral part of the 1996 welfare reform law signed by former President Bill Clinton, The Washington Times reported.

Ohio was the only state that applied for a waiver, which was neither approved nor denied by the previous administration, according to the Associated Press. On Wednesday, the Trump administration closed the door on even the possibility the waiver would be approved by officially denying Ohio’s request, according to AP.

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Posted by Brock Townsend at Thursday, August 31, 2017 2 comments: Links to this post Southern Secession Was Lawful: Uncovering the Truth in American History

Via Mike The online map for this article lists Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland as states that “did not secede” from the Union. Actually, all of them attempted to secede, but were stopped by unlawful measures or occupation by Union troops.

The Maryland Legislature was scheduled to vote on secession on September 7, 1861, but the vote was blocked by the Lincoln Administration’s arrest of pro-secession members of the Maryland Legislature.  The is covered in the Chapter, “Maryland, My Maryland,” in my book.

Nevertheless, 30,000 men from Maryland served in the Confederate Army.

The Missouri Legislature escaped capture by the Union Army and voted to secede on October 31, 1861, in Neosho, Missouri.  Their secession was recognized as lawful by the Confederate government.

A fraction of the Kentucky Legislature held a convention in Russellville, Kentucky, and voted to secede on June 16, 1861. Their secession was recognized by the Confederate government as lawful.

The 12th and 13th stars in the Confederate battle flag represented Kentucky and Missouri.

Southern Arizona and Southern New Mexico seceded on March 16, 1861, and were recognized by the CSA on February 14, 1862.

The Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indian tribes in Oklahoma seceded on various dates in 1861.

BTW, I was born in Missouri and my great grandfather served in the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry regiment (CSA) under John Hunt Morgan.

More information, especially on the early border wars between Kansas and Missouri and the war in Missouri, are covered in my book: The Un-Civil War: Shattering the Historical Myths, Leonard M. Scruggs, 2011.

The book may be purchased at http://www.universalmediainc.org/books.htm
and other online sources.

The Southern secessions of 1860 and 1861 were not only lawful but based on foundational American principles. This flies in the face of the willful ignorance of American history perpetrated by those who have a vested interest in continuing a false historical narrative of the “Civil War” and Reconstruction to achieve thoroughly un-American past and current political agendas. No reasonably informed and reputable historian believes secession was treason or that the Civil War was primarily a crusade to end slavery.

On July 4, 1776, thirteen British colonies announced their Secession from Great Britain and declared to the world their just reasons:

More @ The Tribune Trump's border wall moves forward with prototypes The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday the winners of a contest to build prototypes for sections of President Trump's proposed border wall.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald D. Vitiello said four companies were chosen to build the prototypes, which are planned to be built in the San Diego area.
Vitiello said the prototypes are a "significant milestone" in Trump's plan to build a wall on the border with Mexico.

The prototypes will be built out of concrete, 18 to 30 feet high and 30 feet long. Vitiello said they would each cost between "just under $400,000 and just under $500,000."

Posted by Brock Townsend at Thursday, August 31, 2017 5 comments: Links to this post $PLC: The Cost of Left-Wing hate

Via Peter The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) claims to be watchdogs over “hate groups and racial extremists throughout the United States.” However, some believe the SPLC is a radical left-wing organization itself, with an extremist agenda of its own. According to a June 21, 2017 article in the Wall Street Journal, “Aided by a veneer of objectivity, the SPLC rightly condemns groups like the Ku Klux Klan and New Black Panther Party, but it has managed to blur the lines, besmirching mainstream groups like the Family Research Council, as well as people such as social scientist Charles Murray and Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a critic of Islamic extremism.”

SPLC founder, attorney Morris Dees, began his career as a direct mail marketer, raising money for Jimmy Carter and George McGovern. As President of SPLC, according to attorney Gloria Browne, a former SPLC employee, “SPLC’s programs are calculated to cash in on black pain and white guilt.”

More @ Economic Populist Outgoing sheriff Clarke expected to take job in Trump administration .More @ Politico
Posted by Brock Townsend at Thursday, August 31, 2017 4 comments: Links to this post Dershowitz: I'm not wrong about Mueller and Russia Brent Budowsky criticizes me for allegedly saying that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation “endangers democracy.” He quotes a story from The Hill that puts the words “endangers democracy” in quotation marks following the unquoted words, “special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.” Report: Trump to End Obama-Era DACA Program & Zuckerberg Group: 700,000 American Job Openings If DACA Ends President Donald Trump will end an Obama-created amnesty program that gave more than 850,000 young illegal aliens protected status and work permits to remain in the United States.

According to Fox News reports, the Trump Administration is set to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) this week, days before a coalition of state attorneys general said they would sue if the program was not ended by September 5:

Trump promised to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, during the presidential campaign — but since taking office had left the door open to preserving parts of it.

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Zuckerberg Group: 700,000 American Job Openings If DACA Ends James Comey started drafting statement exonerating Hillary Clinton before FBI interviewed her, aides "Conclusion first, fact-gathering second — that's no way to run an investigation. The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a letter to the FBI. Political Ignorance–Part of the new slavery There a lots of “useful idiots” out there on the Left that couldn’t pour water into a teapot if they were handed a set of gilt-edged instructions along with the water. Our government education system has largely aided in their brainwashing and programming so that they think good is evil, freedom is slavery, and white is evil, even though many of them are white. They claim that fascism is a “right-wing” phenomena when any sane person recognizes that there is precious little difference between a Nazi (national socialist) and a Communist (international socialist). They are both socialists!

I just read an article this morning from Frontpage Magazine, by Matthew Vadum, dealing with Antifa, which is supposed to be an “anti-fascist” group but, in reality, acts as though they were Hitler’s brown shirts.

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Posted by Brock Townsend at Thursday, August 31, 2017 8 comments: Links to this post $outhern Poverty Law Center Transfers Millions in Cash to Offshore Entities More @ The Washington Free Beacon
Posted by Brock Townsend at Thursday, August 31, 2017 6 comments: Links to this post White people, here are 10 requests from a Black Lives Matter leader

Via Nancy LEO Weekly

10. Commit to two things: Fighting white supremacy where and how you can (this doesn’t mean taking up knitting, unless you’re making scarves for black and brown kids in need), and funding black and brown people and their work.
Posted by Brock Townsend at Thursday, August 31, 2017 16 comments: Links to this post Pundits And Politicians Are Tacitly Admitting That They Lied About Russia

Via Bill More @ DC Whispers Defense Secretary Mattis Reverses Obama Policy of Hiding Troop Numbers in Afghanistan Defense Secretary James Mattis has directed the Pentagon to reverse an Obama-era policy of hiding the real number of American troops serving in Afghanistan.

The previous administration, anxious to prove to the American people that President Obama had pulled troops from the war-torn country, consistently low-balled their reports.

Policies were implemented that prevented troops on “temporary assignment” or those involved in overlap of troop rotations from being counted.

The result? The official count of American troops in Afghanistan jumped from 8,448 to 11,000.
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