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States rebel against Washington
csmonitor.com - 3/27/2009
States rebel against Washington
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The pushback against federal power began under Bush, but may now be accelerating.
What's Wrong with Washington?
vanityfair.com - 3/31/2009
What's Wrong with Washington?
— vanityfair.com — Washington has always been out of sync with the rest of America, but since Obama's election, Beltway... pundits seem more stubbornly and stupendously irrelevant than ever. Have three decades of being wired for Republican power blown their jittery, ... (more) What's Wrong with Washington?

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buzzflash.com - 3/29/2009
Rev. Moon Exemplifies Right Wing GOP Subsidy of Big Media to Frame Message
— buzzflash.com — THE BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG By Mark Karlin Rev. Moon has adopted a relatively low-profile in recent years... (if you don't count his bizarre "coronation" by elected officials in a Capitol Hill House of Representatives meeting room a couple ... (more) Rev. Moon Exemplifies Right Wing GOP Subsidy of Big ...

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horsesass.org - 3/28/2009
Now is the time for a “high income tax”
— horsesass.org — I’ve got no particular insight into how the budget dance is being choreographed, if at all, but... it’s hard to believe the cuts-only budgets being introduced next week are intended to be anything but an opening gambit. Most Olympia ... (more) Now is the time for a “high income tax”

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Instapundit:  STATES REBEL AGAINST WASHINGTON with “sovereignty resolutions.” I’ve been getting email on this for…

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STATES REBEL AGAINST WASHINGTON with “sovereignty resolutions.” I’ve been getting email on this for…
Instapundit — ... STATES REBEL AGAINST WASHINGTON with “sovereignty resolutions.” I’ve been getting email on this for a while, but I’m not sure how much to make of it. Still, it’s gotten the attention of the Christian Science Monitor. ...

Obama administration harshes California’s mellow, part II
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... we believe there are not only violations of federal law, but state law as well,” DEA Special Agent in Charge Anthony Williams said in a prepared statement. Hope and Change! Now, under Obama, the federal government can decide when state laws need to get enforced as well.  Wouldn’t California be the better judge of alleged violations of its own laws?  Why wouldn’t the DEA simply refer the matter to the California AG instead? Small wonder, then, that the Tenth Amendment seems to be getting a new look by states : Just as California under President Bush asserted itself on issues ...

Dissecting Leftism — ... States rebel against Washington: “There’s an old joke in South Carolina: Confederate President Jefferson Davis may have surrendered at the Burt-Stark mansion in Abbeville, S.C., in 1865, but the people of state Rep. Michael Pitts’s district never did. With revolutionary die-hards behind him, Mr. Pitts has fired a warning shot across the bow of the Washington establishment. As the writer of one of 28 state ’sovereignty bills’ … Pitts is at the forefront of a states’ rights revival, reasserting their say on everything from stem cell research to the Second Amendment. … Just as ...

Secession and Racism
Firedoglake — ... . Just the week before, Perry endorsed the quirky "Tenth Amendment" movement and a states' rights resolution. I say quirky, but ...

Matt Sledge: Palin and Perry Skirt Secession
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... "The mainstream media would portray some of us as rednecks, whether we're from Pennsylvania, Oregon, or South Carolina," South Carolina State Rep. Michael Pitts (R-Laurens) told the Christian Science Monitor. "But this is a wake-up call. And if Washington doesn't heed that wake-up call, revolution is on the horizon." ...

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