Texas Leads the Way Again

Short of a State's outright nullification--a precursor to secession--of an unconstitutional federal act by the judiciary, congress or the executive branch, per Printz v US (1842) and James Madison's counsel on the subject in Federalist #46, a State may simply refuse to enforce the act within its sovereign territory. This is referred to as "anti-commandeering", a perfectly legitimate remedy to federal overreach which even our renegade courts have upheld over the years. (Though I discussed this subject in my book, "A Patriot's Call to Action", it bears repeating here.)

With this doctrine in mind, Texas is introducing legislation to establish a permanent committee to review any and all edicts, laws, regulations issued by the federal government to ensure their strict comportment with the original Constitution. And if a federal act is rendered unconstitutional by the committee--and so many federal acts these days are just that--the State legislature (both houses) would vote on whether or not that particular act is constitutional and whether or not Texas will honor the act. With legislative passage and the Governor's signature, the federal act in question would not be honored or otherwise enforced in the State.

**If ALL States were to replicate this approach, federal tyranny would be drastically reduced throughout the land and a semblance of constitutional order would quickly return to this tattered republic.

NOTE: Nullification is a much more serious--but entirely legitimate--remedy as well. Invoking the 10th Amendment authority to nullify a federal act would entail a State's arresting, fining and imprisoning both State and Federal agents who attempt to enforce a federal act rendered unconstitutional by the State. Invoking the Anti-Commandeering Doctrine is a gentler way to achieving the same result, that being to render an unconstitutional federal act of no effect within a State's sovereign territory.

Nice to see Texas once again taking the lead in returning our republic to its first-principles. Would love to see other States do the same. Sadly, I fear most are too heavily bribed by the feds to resist by either method. And so it goes...

Texas Bill Would Create Process to Review and Reject Unconstitutional Federal Acts

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Returning Sovereignty to the States is the States' Responsibility

While the President's heart and mind are in the right place, what we must always understand is that what the federal government "gives" to us one day can be easily and tyrannically taken back the next.

States must understand that, per the 10th Amendment, the founders delegated very limited, specific powers to the federal government, reserving ALL other powers, either written or unwritten--like defining marriage, motorcycle helmet policies, ad infinitum--to the States or to the People.

Decades of judicial activism, executive tyranny and legislative overreach have effectively eroded State sovereignty/authority to the point at which we no longer have a functioning.constitutional republic. We are all ruled by political elites, an oligarchy of corporate and political interests quite at odds with our founding principles.

While President Trump's effort to restore sovereignty to the States is both noble and much appreciated, we must understand that he won't be occupying the Oval Office forever. Thus, to ensure a longer term restoration of State sovereignty and the balance of power envisioned by our founders, it is entirely up to the States and the People to assert their constitutional authority. There is no other viable solution.

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Enforcing our Immigration Laws is Analagous to Japanese-American Internment. WHAT?

Now the delirious loons on the Left are equating Trump's enforcement of current constitutional immigration laws to the unlawful internment of Japanese-American citizens during WW II. Insane! (Of course, what they conveniently omit is that their patron saint, FDR, is the fella who perpetrated that obscenity.)

And then we hear that same delusional mob asserting that aliens outside the USA are entitled to constitutional protections such as due process. (Does this mean that Burundian and Mongolian citizens, among others, who are residing in their countries of origin are entitled to those protections as well?) Clearly, years of judicial revisionism, indoctrination and abject ignorance of the Constitution have taken a terrible toll.

These spurious claims are symptomatic of a rampant intellectual dishonesty/laziness and, frankly, a nearly complete psychological breakdown on the Left.

Not surprisingly, of course, fake news outlets are promoting this disinformation. Sick.

The Mexican Immigration Hussle Explained

We are either a nation of laws or of men. For some time now we appear to be more a nation of men and cry-babies than of laws. Not a good omen.

Despite endless heart-rending emotional appeals on behalf of illegal aliens--those who entered the USA illegally--under current law they are illegal and, therefore, deportable/removable. It's really that simple.

Don't like the law, then legislatively change it! Until then, it is the law.

Mexico is in a snit over Trump's decision to enforce our immigration laws, even pledging to go to the UN to defend the "rights of Mexican migrants" in the US. Wow! It also vows to "vigorously fight US deportations of undocumented immigrants" and it "refuses to accept any non-Mexicans expelled across the border." Man, they've got balls even if they have no sense or respect for US sovereignty.

Two points: 1) Mexican gate-crashers have no right to illegally enter the USA, a sovereign nation, and 2) if non-Mexican interlopers illegally enter the US from Mexico, then why are they
suddenly America's responsibility? Since Mexico admitted them or missed them in their own cross border shuffle, then they are properly Mexico's problem. Not ours. Duh.

While our Mexican "friends" condemn us for being "aggressive and insulting" for enforcing our immigration laws, Mexico, home of some of the harshest immigration laws in the hemisphere, continues to encourage and assist their poor and unemployed to illegally migrate to the US. Why? The billions of dollars these illegals send back to Mexico, a boon to Mexico's mismanaged, top-heavy economy.

Mexico has gotten away with their profitable migrant invasion of the US long enough. President Trump is absolutely right to enforce our immigration laws. In fact, he is constitutionally duty bound to do just that no matter the hypocritical outcry from Mexico City and from America's own faux compassionate useful idiots on the Left, all of whom support this blatant subversion of our sovereignty and economic well-being.

Enough is enough. I've worked with needy refugees nearly all my life, both here and abroad, so I'll match my more genuine level of compassion with anyone in Mexico or on the Left in America. For you, politics, self-serving ideology, globalism, and greed alone motivate you. You're not fooling me at all, nor are you fooling good, sensible Americans.

A Free Press is "FREE" to do What?

To those on the left AND the right (McCain) who insist that Trump's justifiable and long overdue castigation of America's renegade press somehow jeopardizes the First Amendment's guarantee of a free press, I have to ask, "FREE TO DO WHAT"? Misinform? Propagandize? Indoctrinate? Mislead? Advance a political agenda?

It is not that "free press" our Founders advocated which today's patriots object to: it is today's ideologically-driven press which consistently violates fundamental journalistic standards of conduct and integrity which we find to be loathsome and intolerable--and of absolutely no redeeming value in a constitutional republic.

When the press abandons its search for objective truth, it abandons its sacred responsibility to the First Amendment, the Constitution and to the People who created this republic.

Properly so, the onus is on the press to regain the respect and trust of the People by more fully honoring its responsibility as that free press envisioned by our Founders. Nothing less will be--or should be--acceptable.

Judicial Tyranny Must be Stopped

When the federal judiciary usurps Executive authority, that's very bad. But, when the judiciary conjures fictional justifications for that usurpation, Rule of Law and constitutional order are DEAD.

Judicial Tyranny is not new. It has been going on for a very long time now. The burning question is what are We the People going to do about it? Sit on our collective a**** as usual or push for a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT to effectively rein in and properly regulate a reckless judiciary?

The judiciary was intended to be the weakest of the three federal branches of government; however, it now routinely eclipses the authority of both the Executive and Legislative branches, in effect creating a nation ruled by 8-9 unelected, unaccountable black-robed judicial oligarchs, aka Delphic Oracles.

Such an obscene abuse of judicial power flies in the face of our founders' original intent. Judicial supremacy violates the very foundations of our constitutional construct. And by its overreach and relentless faithlessness to first-principles, the federal judiciary has effectively transformed this so-called constitutional republic into a tyranny by judicial fiat--a Judical Oligarchy!

Make a call to your clueless representatives and remind them of Madison's, Jefferson's and Hamilton's warnings about an inadequately regulated judiciary--which we now have in spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs!!! Tell them to initiate an amendment to restore the judiciary's original role. If they seem unfamiliar with that role, refer them to Art III of the Constitution. It's not rocket science.This tyranny--like all tyranny-- won't stop until the People decide it should stop.

Remember: the founders made it crystal clear that the FINAL ARBITERS of what is and what is not constitutional are the creators of this republic, that being the States and their respective citizens. We are the highest tribunal--not a damnably misnamed "Supreme" Court. Our creation, now frankensteinian in breadth, is now being permitted to dictate to its creators.

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No Executive Order Needed to Further Reduce Reckless Refugee Influx

It's no secret that the President has the absolute and incontestable authority to lower the annual refugee ceiling without an executive order. And in view the 9th circuit's recklessness, such a presidential action may be just what the doctor ordered.

Trump's already reduced the number for this fiscal year beginning October 1, 2016 from 110,000 to 50,000.

In anticipation of Trump's lowering the refugee ceiling yet again, and in cahoots with DOSs Office of Refugee Resettlement, the refugee resettlement industry has already recklessly expedited the entry of nearly 35,000 horribly vetted refugees just during the first 4 months of this fiscal year--an unprecedented influx!!!

By Trump's lowering the ceiling to 35,000 very early next week, the refugee resettlement industry's subversion can be stopped dead. And, very importantly, since nearly 80% of refugees are currently originating in 4 of the 7 countries his EO listed ((Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan) the toxic impact of the 9th's subversion can be minimized as well.

Let's hope Mr. Trump takes this action this week! No more pussy-footing with greed and judicial tyranny. National security must be the priority.

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