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A Libertarian turn: Marijuana, Same-Sex Marriage, Gun Rights
By: Michael Barone, The Project to Restore America, We Are 1776 Are Americans becoming more libertarian on cultural issues? I see evidence that they are, in poll findings and election results on three unrelated issues — marijuana legalization, same-sex marriage and gun rights. Start with pot. Last November voters in the states of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize marijuana, by a 55 to 45 percent margin in Colorado (more than Barack Obama’s margin in the state) and by 56 to 44 percent in Washington. In contrast, California voters rejected legalization 53 to 47 percent in 2010. These results and poll…
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Immigration Reform or Law Enforcement?
By: Richard Charles, 2014 Republican Congressional Candidate, We Are 1776 In 2012 the Internal Revenue Services paid $4 billion to illegal immigrants in tax credits for their dependent children. We Americans have no problem with legal immigrants who pay taxes and make good citizens, since we know the melting pot genius productivity of America was founded on the backs and brains of hardworking immigrants seeking a better way of life. We were willing to work and save for the American Dream, not a political handout. We Americans do take issue with amnesty and subsidies for illegal immigrants without effective border control, something the United States…
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Liberal Media’s Gun Control and Crime Correlations: All Lies
By: Kyle Laine, We Are 1776, Guest Contributor When the mainstream media continues to pump information that correlates gun control measures and violent crime rates, it’s essential that a critical viewer analyzes the information effectively. Here are two main reasons the media has project fallacious arguments in support of strict gun regulation. 1. Data Correlations Ignore Culture Studies tend to compare the United states with other countries, and they often come to the conclusion that gun control in other countries is their effective method to curbing crime. I think everyone can agree that culture has a huge part to play in a country’s violent crime rate. It really doesn’t matter…
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How Can You Defend Those Criminals?
By: Judge James P. Gray, Guest Columnist, We Are 1776 So many times I hear the question asked: “How can defense attorneys defend those criminals – particularly if you know they are guilty?” The answer is at least four-fold. First, and quite fundamentally, the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution provide that governments cannot deprive people of life, liberty or property without the due process of law. Libertarians and other responsible people realize that due process for almost all cases is simply not attainable without defendants having capable and professional legal assistance. Second, the government itself is a powerful entity….
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How Far is Too Far? FISA, The NSA and the ACLU
By: Joel Marchese, Congressional Candidate District 53 – San Diego, We Are 1776 On Tueday, June 11th, the ACLU filed their lawsuit against the Obama Administration over surveillance operations performed in the name of national security upon the American People. Republicans and Libertarians found themselves cheering for the first time — for a legal adversary and weaver of frivilous lawsuits and meaningless cruesades. What’s this? The ACLU has finally gotten one right! Face-Bookers, and Twitter-tweeters madly punching their keyboards and smearing their tablets with today’s unfinished lunches to boldly proclaim their new-found alegience to their former adversary — the ACLU! Amazing stuff,…
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A Libertarian turn: Marijuana, Same-Sex Marriage, Gun Rights
Jun 17, 2013
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Immigration Reform or Law Enforcement?
Jun 17, 2013
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Liberal Media’s Gun Control and Crime Correlations: All Lies
Jun 17, 2013
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How Can You Defend Those Criminals?
Jun 15, 2013
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How Far is Too Far? FISA, The NSA and the ACLU
Jun 15, 2013
Domestic Policy
The Abortion-Crime Link: Finally Dead
By Alexander Adams, We Are 1776, Contributor Unwanted-ness is correlated with crime, abortion reduces unwanted-ness, and thus abortion lowers crime. Well, thats what they used to say. Recent developments in the theory of the abortion-crime link seem to have left the theory in strange waters. Well, not too many care about this anymore. Certainly few economists or criminologists pay much attention anymore. Ted Joyce, economist and abortion expert, released papers on the issue in 2009, and John Lott’s and John Whitley’s paper came out in 2007, but not much has stirred since then. Steve Sailer, who reviews some of the debate here, provides his graph: Well, what does it say? Well, the first group…
Liberalism is Bankrupt
By: Marta H. Mossburg, The Project to Restore America The high priests of liberalism must be tossing and turning in their organic cotton bedding and downing more small-batch artisan whisky each night trying to cope with the abject failure of their cause. They know, even if the masses do not yet fully understand, that their worldview no longer makes sense in light of the scandal after scandal in Washington and that the end result could be a great, if slow, deconversion on the scale of the millions who no longer believe in the Christianity its philosophy replaced. Government, they have told us,…
Consumer Protection Laws: What are They?
By: Tony, Guest Contributor, We Are 1776 [Editorial note: The author does not want his last name released, any updates on that front will be made.] Today’s consumer market is rife with non-quality products that are put together in the most money efficient way possible; all in efforts to increase a company’s product margins by even just a fraction of a percent. Quality has become a term that is synonymous with luxury, while quantity and mass production have replaced our cheap goods. Let’s face it companies are in the business of making money. This leaves consumers at the mercy of…
Changing a System: Child Protective Services (6 of 6)
By: Marc Connuck, We Are 1776, Vice-President [Please note that this is the sixth of 6 concerning the Child Protective Services.] No system should abuse it’s power to provide a racist or elitist perception, but the current system does exactly that. The child welfare system discriminates against those in a lower socio-economic class. “Abuse” is 3 times more common in poor families and “neglect” is 7 times more common in poor families. But, neglect alone should not justify the separation of a child from his or her parents unless the child is suffering or at an imminent risk of suffering…
Gun Control
The Shrieking Mothers Who Make Our Gun Laws
By: Andre Smith, We Are 1776, Guest Contributor Picture a backyard with a paramedic, a child facedown in a swimming pool and a shrieking mother beginning to panic. Who do you want to save the child? That’s the situation the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries face when dealing with gun violence. Time after time, we’ve found a dying child and turned the situation over to the shrieking mother instead of the paramedic. Unless we approach gun violence with maturity, we’re going to lose a lot more than the occasional background check. The emotional response is understandable. We witnessed…
Liberal Media’s Gun Control and Crime Correlations: All Lies
By: Kyle Laine, We Are 1776, Guest Contributor When the mainstream media continues to pump information that correlates gun control measures and violent crime rates, it’s essential that a critical viewer analyzes the information effectively. Here are two main reasons the media has project fallacious arguments in support of strict gun regulation. 1. Data Correlations Ignore Culture Studies tend to compare the United states with other countries, and they often come to the conclusion that gun control in other countries is their effective method to curbing crime. I think everyone can agree that culture has a huge part to play in a country’s violent crime rate. It really doesn’t matter…
Firearm Buybacks: A Waste of Time and Effort
By: Alexander Adams, We Are 1776, Contributor Whether it is California, Santa Fe, or Australia, many people believe that gun buy-backs will lead to a decrease in crime. And, oddly enough, criminals and citizens actually do sell their guns. Criminals sell the weapons to hide evidence of a crime, and citizens often sell broken firearms in order to later buy new weapons. Yes, criminals avoid getting caught through firearm buy-backs, and citizens merely use the money they obtain to buy working weapons. Generally, there is a temporary decrease in the gun ownership rate from the buy-back, but no long term…
North Carolina: Ending Jim Crow Gun Laws
By: Michael Gray, We Are 1776, Contributor The North Carolina State Senate has temporarily approved a bill that allows concealed carry permit (CCP) holders to carry firearms in places where it is currently illegal to do so. In addition, it eliminates pistol permits for purchasing handguns. The bill would allow CCP holders to carry in the following places: Parades Venues that charge admission Stowing of firearms in locked vehicles on college campuses Trails and recreation areas Restaurants where alcohol is served if the CCP holder is not drinking While it is currently forbidden in North Carolina to carry firearms in the…
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Foreign Policy
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Nullification
California NDAA Nullification Bill (A.B. 351) up for Appropriations Vote
SACRAMENTO, CA - Assembly Bill 351, introduced by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly (R-Twin Peaks), passed the California Public Safety Committee unanimously on April 9, 2013. It is now up for a vote in the Appropriations Committee next week, May 15th, 2013. A.B. 351 would nullify the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (Sections 1021 and 1022.) Take Action Now Respectfully urge the Appropriations Committee to pass A.B. 351: Mike Gatto (Chair) Dem – 43 Contact Assembly Member Mike Gatto Capitol Office P.O. Box 942849, Room 2114, Sacramento, CA 94249-0043; (916) 319-2043 Diane L. Harkey (Vice Chair) Rep – 73 Contact Assembly Member Diane L. Harkey…
Texas House Votes to Nullify Federal Gun Control, 102-31
By Tenth Amendment Center Daily Updates AUSTIN, TX – Today, the Texas State House approved a bill that would render almost all federal gun control measures toothless. House Bill 928 (HB 928), by Representative Matthew Krause, was approved on thrid reading by a wide margin. The final vote was 102-31 (roll call here). If passed into law, HB928 would require that the state refuse to enforce almost all federal gun control measures enacted at anytime – past, present or future. It reads, in part: An agency of this state or a political subdivision of this state, and a law…
Constitutional Tender Act Passes Missouri House 107-47
By Tenth Amendment Center Daily Updates JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A bill that would make gold and silver coin legal tender in Missouri overwhelmingly passed the House Tuesday. HB 421 exempts any capital gains income included in Missouri adjusted gross income from the exchange of gold and silver issued by the federal government at a nonbank depository from state individual and corporate income taxes and allows the use of silver coins issued by the federal government as legal tender at face value. The silver coins of the United States are hereby declared a legal tender, at their par value, fixed by…
Texas Action Alert: 2nd Gun Control Nullification Bill Hits the House Floor on Saturday
By Tenth Amendment Center Daily Updates Joining HB1076 for a full Texas State House vote on SATURDAY, May 4th, is HB928. Both are based on the same principle – that no one working for government in the state of Texas will enforce federal gun control measures. 1076 focuses only on new federal gun control enacted on or after January 1, 2013. But HB928 makes no distinction – and virtually all federal gun control measures will be unenforceable within the state of Texas. This would make a HUGE dent in any new federal effort to further restrict the right to keep and…
