Virginia Right!

There is a fair amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth on the Arizona immigrant decision and some of the teeth are mine!  But there is some useful supportive language in favor of it being unconstitutional for municipalities and local governments to conduct foreign policy.  And that means only one thing:  ICLEI is indeed unconstitutional […]

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If you don’t get the Cuccinelli Compass you should go here and sign up! This is yesterday’s Cuccinelli Compass: March 24, 2012 Dear Fellow Virginians, Today was the first day of the three-day healthcare hearing in the U.S. Supreme Court, and as promised, I wanted to offer you my reflections on today’s hearing. Today the […]

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I have blogged on the threat of ICLEI, the UN-blessed cartel of local governments around the world.  I contend that a local government in the USA cannot be a member of a group that advocates foreign policy aims or objectives abroad.  I now suggest the Supreme Court of the United States would agree. There is […]

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This continuing series about the Maine GOP Platform took an interesting turn yesterday at the United States Supreme Court. First, let’s cite the pertinent sections of that radical off the wall document: Oppose any and all treaties with the UN or any other organization or country which surrenders US sovereignty. Specifically:                                           i.   Reject the […]

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Restore the Constitutional Balance

Congress is attempting to make Virginia and other states mere administrative agents for dubious public policies that the Congress either lack the money to enforce or the authority to enact. Congress has seen states pay for the programs or fail to challenge their legitimacy because of the financial and legal difficulty of doing so.

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As if we did not need any more things to worry about from Washington, there is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This treaty, promulgated by the UN General Assembly in 1989, has been ratified by every nation (including such libertarian paradises as China, Iran and Zimbabwe) except, it seems Somalia and the United States of America. This treaty may be well-intended but it is a clear threat to our national sovereignty, the rights of parents to raise and educate their children and religious liberty.

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