In stark contrast to last year, when Repeal Day elapsed without a taste of wine passing my lips, I spent yesterday, the 75th Anniversary of the abolition of prohibition, pouring some great German wines. As it happens, I was happy to be serving them alongside the men who grew them, some of the finest producers from their respective regions. While there was nary a lowlight on the evening, certain
by John MacMullin, Mises.org
Nearing election time again, we are reminded that the there are no checks and balances available to the states over federal power or over Congress itself in any area. However, in the history of our country, it was not always this way. In the original design by the Framers of the U.S. [...]
I stumbled upon an interesting Wall Street Journal article, “How to Save Detroit and Save $50 Billion,” and not to indulge in nostalgia over the auto industry’s golden days as I would never do that without feeling repusive, but this article (along with others I found in my research), convinced me that CAFE or Corporate [...]
The House voted overwhelmingly today to repeal the 1913 law. Now that both the Senate and the House have passed the bill, the bill will go to Governor Patrick, who is expected to sign it. As a result of the repeal of the old statute, gay and lesbian couples residing in other states will now be permitted to marry in Massachusetts even if their home states would not permit them to marry in their
The House voted overwhelmingly today to repeal the 1913 law. Now that both the Senate and the House have passed the bill, the bill will go to Governor Patrick, who is expected to sign it. As a result of the repeal of the old statute, gay and lesbian couples residing in other states will now be permitted to marry in Massachusetts even if their home states would not permit them to marry in their
Via Queerty... While presidential hopeful John McCain continues to support Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, a vast - and growing - number of Americans are coming out against the discriminatory policy:Public attitudes about gays in the military have shifted dramatically since President Bill Clinton unveiled what became his administration’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy 15 years ago today. Seve
I have had a recent fit of "creativity"--although you surely wouldn't have guessed it based on my lack of recent blog posts. Anyway, the result is that I recently re-launched my online store, with a boatload of new t-shirt designs. Won't you check them out? They're mostly humorous designs. (Although I guess humor is a subjective thing. They amuse me, anyway. Perhaps they will amuse you as well. Pe
Massachusetts residents will have an opportunity to vote to repeal the 5.3% State Income Tax this November. Secretary of State, Galvin, has placed the Tax Question in the first place on the ballot Boston Globe The Globe indicates that should this ballot initiative pass, it might end up costing the state approximately $12 Billion annually. Can Massachusetts afford to repeal the income tax? The obv
After reading this article---I had to print it. Are they really that afraid that when it comes to their Gun Ban, they have No Leg To Stand On!!! Is it that they understand that their Gun Ban is an infringement on the "Right Of The People", and their only choice is to do away with the proof. The Mayor of Chicago and any one wishing to infringe on the Right's of the People can rest assured--"The Peo
Law.com Article Examines DOJ's Thinking - The DOJ Antitrust Division’s often-criticized decision to revoke an amnesty agreement with Stolt-Nielsen shipping company is the subject of a detailed and engaging article in Corporate Counsel, available on law.com, which provides a window into the DOJ’s thinking during the dispute.Stolt-Nielsen Amnesty Revocation Questioned - A judge found that the DO
Law.com Article Examines DOJ's Thinking - The DOJ Antitrust Division’s often-criticized decision to revoke an amnesty agreement with Stolt-Nielsen shipping company is the subject of a detailed and engaging article in Corporate Counsel, available on law.com, which provides a window into the DOJ’s thinking during the dispute.Stolt-Nielsen Amnesty Revocation Questioned - A judge found that the DO
Senator McCain has - until now - included a promise to repeal the AMT in his economic plan.
However, a few days ago, he introduced the idea of a phase out, rather than a repeal. In a June 10 speech, he said, “I will also propose … a phase-out of the Alternative Minimum Tax.”
In 2007, [...]
Last week, the Texas Legislative Study Group released the first part of its recommendations for improving higher education in Texas. The LSG calls for repealing tuition deregulation, cutting and freezing tuition rates (and lowering costs by at least $500 per year), creating a new statewide scholarship system based on merit to help students and their parents afford higher education without being bu
Estate tax repeal, just like getting older, is gently creeping up on us at about the speed of a Lear Jet. In 2010, if congress doesn’t do anything the estate tax will disappear until, of course, reinstated by a congress and president of sound mind. Most of those with taxable size estates are still taking [...]
- Scott Miller
I’ve been preaching, for months now, that nothing will change in terms of high gas and oil prices until the American people stand up and demand that we take off the handcuffs the liberals have placed on our ability to produce more energy within our own borders.
We have oil, the liberals just won’t [...]
It seems another consultation on our freedom to assemble and protest is on its way. The House of Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights has just launched a 'Call for Evidence' in order 'to enquire into the human rights issues arising from policing and protest'. These are some of the questions asked:• What limits, if any, should be placed on the right to protest and why?• Should specific limitations be placed on the ability of certain groups to protest? If so, who and why?• Should the right to protest be more strictly curtailed in relation to certain geographical areas? If yes, where, why and what limits would be acceptable?• The Government proposes to repeal sections 132-8 SOCPA dealing with protest around Parliament and invites Parliament to consider whether additional
There are governors who are not willing to comply with the Real ID Act and make it more difficult for terrorists to be able to receive driver's licenses. There are members of Congress who similarly oppose the Real ID Act; Democrat Senator Richard Durbin and Republican Senator Lamar Alexander are among those leading the charge against the Real ID Act. Senator Alexander wants to add a provision to the FY 2009 DHS appropriations bill delaying any enforcement of the bill unless and until the federal...(read more)
I have three simple questions for the folks at the Marin Institute, Mother's Against Drunk Driving and the other anti-alcohol groups who threaten any politician who dares to question the effectiveness of the 21 year old drinking age:(1) In the more than two decades since the drinking age switch was forced upon states by the threat of the loss of federal highway matching funds has the new law kept 18-20 year olds from drinking?(2) Is it a safer environment now that the government has pushed 18-20 year old drinking underground, without controls or supervision, and caused otherwise law abiding young adults to break the law? (3) Is it fair to say to a small group of adult Americans that there are rights the rest of us can enjoy that they are not entitled to -- at the very same moment that the
Washington D.C.--Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi revealed today that the House of Representatives has passed legislation repealing the law of gravity."I don't know why we didn't think of this before," said Pelosi. "Imagine what a boon this will be to the airlines alone. Credit is due to Jerry Brown. If he hadn't mentioned it at a cocktail party about a month ago, it would never have occurred to me. It is genius, pure genius.""Of course I voted for it," said Dennis Kucinich. "Elizabeth and I have been doing it for years."The lone dissenter in the house vote was Ron Paul. "This will be almost as big a debacle as when the democrats repealed the law of supply and demand under Roosevelt," opined the congressman from Texas.Several prominent Democrats from the private sector and the senate qu
As Joe and Dr. Debs were kind enough to remind me, today is Repeal Day – the anniversary of the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, which ended Prohibition, on December 5, 1933. Seventy-four years later, I’ve quite inadvertently celebrated the occasion by not tasting a thing all day. I suppose stranger things have happened. Cheers to all who remembered to honor the day!
Wednesday was Repeal Day, the anniversary of the end of Prohibition with the abandonment of the Eighteenth Amendment, the most dumbass tinker with the Constitution ever enacted, with the possible exception of the Sixteenth, which permits the Federal Government to pick our pockets of one-third of everything we earn. The traditional way to celebrate is to dress in garters and flapper garb and offer a toast on the twenty-first hour of the day. But I just consider it another day on which it is socially acceptable to engage in morning drinking.Besides being an achievement for booze hounds everywhere, the Twenty-first Amendment was the last victory of the states' rights crowd in modern history. The Amendment essentially said the Federal Government has no business regulating our immoral drinking habits, and left it to the states.And the states did various things. In Mississippi some counties are dry. In Washington State to get a bottle of Jack Daniels you have to go to a sterile sta
December 5, 1933 marks the repeal of prohibition. Today is a good day to reflect on everything that is still prohibited.
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China is set to repeal immigration laws that restrict people with HIV/AIDS traveling to the country, a health ministry official and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria recently announced.
The travel restrictions have been a hindrance, which block individuals who are HIV-positive from entering China to attend conferences on AIDS and is seen as reinforcing stigmas against those living with the disease.
"China has decided to change its immigration laws, scrapping travel restrictions," Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund, told a news conference. "The new law, which hopefully will be passed in the coming months, will be in line with the global conventions, which recognize that travel restrictions for HIV-positive people do not have any public health value," he said.
Vice Minister of Health Huang Jiefu did not give a timeline for the change, but said China was committed to making the amendment. "Modifying laws and regulation
It is interesting to note there are so many governments and individuals around the world who are still reluctant to acknowledge that gays and lesbians are “equal in dignity and rights”. Being gay or lesbian is not seen as a right but as a wrong. Homosexuality is considered a sin, or an illness, an deviation in ideology or a betrayal of one’s culture.Governments and individuals defended their stand against the repeal in the name of religion, culture, morality or public health. Homosexuals are branded “perverts” and “paedophiles”, and AIDS is labelled a “gay disease”. Homosexual relations are “anti - Christian”, anti - Islamic”etc. Wouldn’t such discrimination make this group of people “less than human”?Campaigning for lesbian and gay human rights might be seen by some as a controversial arena of human rights activism. We have NMP Mr Siew Kum Hong who, on behalf of gay media company Fridae.com and lawyer George Hwang, submitted a parliamentary petition requ
This is a story that has the people of New Hampshire seemingly evenly split. This is a story about a boyfriend and girlfriend who skipped school to have sex. There was a little problem here though, besides skipping school, you see the boy is seventeen and the girl is fifteen. She is six months away from the age of consent. The boy is going to be charged with sexual assault and tried as an adult. These charges are a Class A misdemeanor offense and is punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine. He may also have to file as a sex offender, all though that seems unlikely, however he will be required by law to report the arrest on college and job applications.
That takes us to the second chapter of the story. When the girl didn’t show up for school a call was placed to her father. When her father found out why she skipped school he decided to take justice into his own hands. In other words, he beat the crap out of the boy after school on school property. He is als
Friday Governor Lynch made it official and signed the parental notification repeal bill. This bill repeals the law which said a MINOR has to have a parent’s permission to have an abortion. What a radical idea. Governor Lynch doesn’t believe that parents have the right to know if their daughters are acting in a dangerous way, and putting themselves at risks for diseases that are worse than pregnancy. Your daughter can’t go on a field trip with school without a permission slip, yet an abortion is okay?
Anyway, I kind of got side tracked, I wanted to talk about a different issue with this bill. (more…)
Gun control is likely to be a high priority in the next administration, especially if a Democrat is elected. We have already heard the rumblings since the shootings at Virginia Tech.
However now there is talk that the second amendment should be repealed, not just controlled.
This quote is from Benjamin Wittes, a guest scholar at the center-left Brookings Institution
Wittes, who said he has “no particular enthusiasm for the idea of a gun culture,” said that rather than try to limit gun ownership through regulation that potentially violates the Second Amendment, opponents of gun ownership should set their sights on repealing the amendment altogether.
“Rather than debating the meaning of the Second Amendment, I think the appropriate debate is whether we want a Second Amendment,” Wittes said.
While the idea of repealing the second amendment is absurd, at least this person has a couple of points correct here. His point that controlling guns is unconstitutional is o
Frank Introduces Repeal of Gambling Ban: The Hill BlogExcerpt:"Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has introduced a bill to repeal the Internet gambling ban Bush signed in October.The Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act, introduced Thursday in the House, would create a federal regulatory network to oversee Internet gambling and would require a licensing fee from gambling sites, giving the federal government an opportunity to generate revenue."http://blog.thehill.com/2007/04/27/frank-introduces-repeal-of-gambling-ban/Alex
I was wondering how long it would take the Democrats to start beating the drums on gun control after the Virginia Tech shootings. I think it is more than just slightly despicable the way they will use anyones grief or family catastrophe to push their political agenda. They go on and on about gun control and you can never get them to answer this question: Will criminals or anyone that is determined to commit a crime say Oh I was going to kill 30 people today but golly gee I cant buy a gun legally so I guess I wont do it after all.. Please. That's exactly what they are inferring and its past ludicrous. Its a truism that when you criminalize guns only criminals will have guns. This is where they will start back pedaling and say that any reduction of guns on the street blah blah blah. I repeat the aforementioned question: Will gun control laws stop criminals from getting guns? The answer is no, it will not. Democrats fear an armed populace and for good reason. And we should ma
An online gambling savior maybe here! Rep. Barney Frank stated that in the coming week he plans to provide details on possible legislation to repeal a ban imposed last year on online gambling. The Chairman of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee said he is in no hurry and plans to consult with others on the matter. According to Mr. Frank, "I'm not ready to give you more details, but I will be by next week or so. We'll talk more about it later. There's no urgency on it."Last year Internet gambling in the US was banned last October by President George W. Bush when he signed legislation outlawing gaming financial transactions. The ban has killed online gambling stocks such as England's PartyGaming. PartyGaming shares jumped 5% on the London Stock Exchange because of Mr. Frank's remarks.U.S. prosecutors have launched an investigation into Internet gambling and the U.S. Department of Justice has demanded inform
Any reasonable person can see that the Senecas are flouting the meaning of the law to gain financially. Their scheme to hide income under the Indian Land Act is nothing more than a shell game. This is 2007, it is time to end special treatment, especially for a group that continually shows no interest in being a part of the larger community unless there is a monetary interest.
The Senecas maintain that the annual payments to members are not dividends, but annuities tied to the 1990 Seneca Settlement Act. They also maintain the payouts are not subject to federal taxes or the control of the National Indian Gaming Commission. Each Seneca member received a payment of $4,500 last year and $6,000 this year, according to the Senecas.
“These annuities are derived from the Nation’s Seneca Settlement Act funds,” Robert Odawi Power, the Senecas’ attorney, told members in the Seneca newsletter.
The News has disclosed that Seneca Gaming paid $16 million for land for the
A while a go I wrote a post concerning the Military Commissions Act and the negative implications it would have on Habeas Corpus. Well, Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) is now sponsoring a new bill called the Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007 that would repeal the Military Commissions Act and restore Habeas Corpus. From Senator Dodd's website: On Tuesday, I re-introduced the Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007. The bill will restore Habeas Corpus protections to detainees, bar information acquired through torture from being introduced as evidence in trials, and limit presidential authority to interpret the meaning and application of the Geneva Conventions.Also, Dodd released a YouTube video to further explain the bill:Please, go here and take the time to become a citizen co-sponsor of the bill and help end this unethical travesty that the 109th Congress and President Bush have brought us. Help this country once again become a nation of law that obeys the rules of the Geneva Conv
California state Senator Dean Florez has introduced a bill to repeal the the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District's exemption from state emissions tests for vehicles made before 1976. The District includes eight counties in California's Central Valley, which are home to a number of now highly pissed-off tuners, hot-rodders and retro gearheads who are mobilizing to fight the new restriction. The usually apolitical Hot Rod magazine blog has posted an action alert by aftermarket industry association SEMA, urging fans of malaisemobiles and other oldtimers to contact their representatives and protest this proposed law. Asserting that "Pre-1976 vehicles constitute a small and shrinking portion of the overall vehicle population in California and a
New York (CaymanMama.com) -- John McCain is planning to rescind Alternative Minimum Tax, popularly known as AMT in a phased wised manner. It is estimated that more than 4 million residents will be paying the wealth tax in case John McCain is elected. Apart from it, once John McCain leaves ...
