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Even After Supreme Court Ruling, These States Are Still Resisting Same-Sex Marriage

Posted on June 29, 2015 by | Comments Off on Even After Supreme Court Ruling, These States Are Still Resisting Same-Sex Marriage

Do you feel homosexual relationships go against your moral and/or religious beliefs? Do you think that the definition of marriage has been corrupted and, regardless of what the Supreme Court says, marriage can only exist between a man and a woman?  Do you think that the Supreme Court should not be able to steal state sovereignty from the citizens in state who have passed an amendment against gay marriage?  If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you likely wish there was a way to fight back-but how?

This article will show you that some states are willing to lead the way. If you are from any of these states, please support your politicians to help them keep up the fight. If you are not from any of these states, especially if your state passed an amendment against gay marriage, email this article to your legislators and ask them why they are not in the fight.

To learn which states are fighting back, click on this link.

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Land Grab! Obama To Lock Up ANWR’s Oil

Posted on January 29, 2015 by | Comments Off on Land Grab! Obama To Lock Up ANWR’s Oil

Every land grab by the federal government is a threat to state sovereignty and property rights. Late January 2015 President Obama signaled his latest land grab. To learn more about the effort by the feds to lock down the 1.5 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge along with all the natural gas, oil, and minerals underground, click on this link.

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Utah to seize own land from government, challenge federal dominance of Western states

Posted on December 6, 2014 by | Comments Off on Utah to seize own land from government, challenge federal dominance of Western states

Thirty-one percent of our nation’s land is owned by the federal government while 63.9 percent of the land in Utah is owned by the federal government. This prompted Utah to pass in 2012 a bill to attempt to force the federal government to return to the state control of over 20 million of its acres-by December 31, 2014-along with the ability of the state to garner economic activity from the land and the minerals under the land. It is a state vs. federal rights issue with serious implications for the several other western states that find themselves in the same predicament. This situation will not resolve quickly-if at all-but bears watching.

To read the actual bill click on this link.

To read a brief (1 page) informative legal overview of the issue, click on this link.

To read a series of talking points that explains, among other things, why certain states after statehood managed to force the feds to give them ownership of their own land, while others, like Utah, did not, click on this link. 

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Do you know your Constitution, because just maybe Cliven Bundy does.

Posted on April 26, 2014 by | Comments Off on Do you know your Constitution, because just maybe Cliven Bundy does.

There are many opinions on the Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his battle with the federal government. Some folks think that regardless of whether Bundy thinks he should or should not pay the feds his fees, if he doesn’t, then he is a free loader, or that because his speech is not PC enough, we should ostracize him completely and negate his property concerns. Others, who feel that the federal government has no business owning massive amounts of what should be state owned lands, are just grateful that FINALLY someone has brought attention to the loss of state sovereignty, property rights infringement, and the heavy hand (can you say thugocracy?) of the feds. All that said, I highly recommend that you read the explanation of Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution known as the Enclave clause which authorizes Congress to purchase, own and control land in a state only under a specific set of limited circumstances by clicking on this link.

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Republicans OK $14M land-transfer lawsuit, say Utah must regain sovereignty

Posted on March 13, 2013 by | Comments Off on Republicans OK $14M land-transfer lawsuit, say Utah must regain sovereignty

Few things will give a fascist government power like preventing the ownership of property by the citizen. The Progressives on the Left are out to destroy property rights. They would argue that only the federal government can manage and protect the land effectively. Who cares that by controlling the state’s land the Feds destroy state sovereignty and deny the state’s the ability to use their own resources to reduce the tax burden on their citizens. To learn how Utah is fighting back against the Federal government’s overreach click on this link.

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Obama To Lock Up ANWR’s Oil

Posted on March 13, 2013 by | Comments Off on Obama To Lock Up ANWR’s Oil

Every land grab by the federal government is a threat to state sovereignty and property rights. Late January 2015 President Obama signaled his latest land grab. To learn more about the effort by the feds to lock down the 1.5 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge along with all the natural gas, oil, and minerals underground, click on this link.

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Congress’s Sneaky Tactic to Grab More U.S. Land for the Government

Posted on March 13, 2013 by | Comments Off on Congress’s Sneaky Tactic to Grab More U.S. Land for the Government

The 2014 mid-term elections are over and the lame duck session is doing what it does best-inserting pork into large must-have legislation. In this instance the pork is the possibility of designating 250,000 additional acres of wilderness, four new national parks and seven national park studies that could lead to more future park designations.  Like having 640 million acres of land in federal control is not enough already? To learn more click on this link.

 

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