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NAFTA Leaders Forge Path Forward to Deepen North American Integration
Pastor also strongly pleaded for the Canadian and Mexican governments to bring their ideas for a more integrated North American ‘community,’ via the Trans-Pacific Partnership, to the United States and...
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Sovereignty and Activist Judges
Both citizens and states have cognizable rights under our federalist system of government, the regime set up by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Activist rulings by federal judges chip away at both...
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Killing the Death Penalty
Capital punishment loses its deterrent value as it is delayed long after murder and conviction at trial. The penalty is nullified entirely as death-row inmates increasingly die a natural death, while...
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TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline: Under Cover of Darkness
Prescott said 85 percent of the oil that will be piped to Nederland already is committed to clients who have long-term contracts but he won’t reveal who are the holders. By Bruce Branick | April 1,...
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Newly Passed United Nations Gun Control Treaty Could be Used to Ban Private...
UN leadership has accused the United States in the past of violating human rights, and these accusations could be used to enforce the Arms Trade Treaty against the U.S. and restrict gun ownership. The...
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Texas Double Tax: Transportation Reinvestment Zones (TRZ) to build toll roads...
Texas is in for a showdown between those who insist on raising taxes and those who refuse. In a state that brags about its conservative credentials, it’ll be interesting to watch the outcome. By Terri...
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Texas lawmakers vote to sell-off state roads to private corporations
Proponents either managed to dupe enough lawmakers, or more likely, think they can dupe the public into believing that voting for SB 1730 wasn’t a vote for toll roads or private toll roads. So, a ‘YES’...
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Proposition 187: Arizona’s page from California’s illegal immigration playbook
In 2012, at the request of the Obama administration and U.S. Justice Department, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the provision that made it a crime to enter Arizona illegally from a foreign country,...
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Tolling Texans by ‘rule change’: TxDOT’s end run around the legislature
The key to this new rule change is it obligates the ‘state highway fund’ to reimburse the private toll concession companies, but not from the collection of toll revenues. So every Texas taxpayer will...
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Trade Promotion Authority is Not the Free Trade Utopia it Seems
The Republican establishment is willing to give Obama this unconstitutional power because they’ve been bought by big business. Slick lobbyists for the National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber...
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Nullifying the Federal Leviathan
As states react to Obama initiatives that press the outer edges of mainstream public policy, they are passing laws that defy the federal government and federal power. By Andrew Thomas | August 14, 2013...
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NAFTA Superhighway Underway in Northeast Indiana: Multinational Operators Vie...
According to INDOT, the 142-mile I-69 corridor is divided into six sections and gained approval by the Federal Highway Administration in March 2004. The first 67 miles opened in November 2012 between...
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Foreign Law, Sharia and American Jurisprudence
Increasingly, state legislatures have voted to ban the use of Sharia law in federal and state courts. Legislators in almost two-thirds of state legislatures have introduced bills in the last three...
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Goodbye Columbus, Goodbye America
Italian-Americans are the only bulwark against political correctness still keeping Columbus on the calendar. But this is about more than one single 15th Century Genoan with a complicated life who was...
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Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Would Impose Global Internet Censorship
Members of Congress have been prohibited from attending the meetings or even viewing drafts of the agreement, but employees of the mega-corporations that stand to benefit from it have their own logins....
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Texas downgrades foreign-owned toll road to junk bond status
All U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for repayment of a $430 million federal TIFIA loan on the SH 130 project. It’s the TIFIA loan that complicates any default and the potential for the tollway to be...
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Rep. Rohrabacher: California is the model for the whole country, if amnesty...
The cascade of economic troubles in California can be traced back to the 1986 amnesty. Politically, the Republican Party of California lost 50% of its legislative members. Rohrabacher says “it took...
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TxDOT proposes elevated toll lanes over Interstate Highway 35
Governor Rick Perry appoints the five un-elected Transportation Commissioners, and they have been dutiful foot soldiers in implementing Perry’s proliferation of toll roads and even handing over control...
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Holder’s Assault on State Election Laws
The lawsuit was but one half of a two-pronged assault by the Holder Justice Department on Texas election practices. The department pursued separately a legal challenge to Texas’ congressional and...
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Toll tyranny and social engineering in local transportation policy
San Antonio’s proposal smacks of the European-style congestion tax imposed on downtown London, Stockholm and Milan, which carries serious implications for environmentally targeted cities all across...
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