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,...
View ArticleTolling 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...
View ArticleTrade 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...
View ArticleNullifying 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...
View ArticleNAFTA 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...
View ArticleForeign 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...
View ArticleGoodbye 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...
View ArticleTrans-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....
View ArticleTexas 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...
View ArticleRep. 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...
View ArticleTxDOT 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...
View ArticleHolder’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...
View ArticleToll 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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