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Karl Marx Treatment Center, People's Cube • Mon 2015 Jun 29, 11:29pm

Washington DC -- Get ready for a complete redrawing of the States of the United States of America. Gone will be the old familiar State lines. These will be replaced with the new States of America.'

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Ricardo Baca, The Cannabist • Mon 2015 Jun 29, 10:44pm

Professor: Why Nebraska, Oklahoma have a right to kill Colorado’s legal pot

Hemp
Michael Boldin, Tenth Amendment Center • Fri 2015 Jun 19, 8:11pm

HARTFORD, Conn. (June 18, 2015) On Tuesday, a bill that would remove the ban on industrial hemp farming in the state, setting the stage to effectively nullify in practice the federal prohibition on the same, became law without a signature from the Governor.…

Hemp
Sarah Fisher, Truth Revolt • Fri 2015 Jun 19, 7:33pm

The Delaware state Senate gave approval yesterday to a bill that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana for private use. Governor Jack Markell immediately signed the bill.…

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Shane Trejo, Tenth Amendment Center • Wed 2015 Jun 17, 9:55pm

AUSTIN, Tex. (June 16, 2015) – Today, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill to effectively nullify in practice some Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules preventing terminally-ill patients from accessing treatments. …known as the Right to Try Act, gives terminally-ill patients access to medicines that have not been given final approval for use by the FDA.…

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Michael Boldin, Tenth Amendment Center • Wed 2015 Jun 17, 9:52pm

AUGUSTA, Maine (June 16, 2015) – Today, the Maine state Senate joined the House and voted to override Gov. LePage’s veto of a bill to authorize hemp farming in the state without gaining any federal permission. …amends the current hemp farming law in the state by removing a requirement that licenses are contingent on approval by the Federal Government.…

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Michael Boldin, Tenth Amendment Center • Sun 2015 Jun 14, 8:53pm

AUSTIN, Tex. (June 12, 2015) – Today, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill establishing the nation’s first state-level gold depository, an important first step towards gold and silver as commonly-used legal tender in the state. … Professor William Greene is an expert on constitutional tender and said in a paper for the Mises Institute that when people in multiple states actually start using gold and silver instead of Federal Reserve Notes, it would effectively nullify the Federal Reserve and end the federal government’s monopoly on money. …

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Shane Trejo, First Amendment Center • Wed 2015 Jun 10, 8:23pm

A bill that would effectively nullify in practice certain Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules that prevent terminally ill patients from accessing treatments was signed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott today.…

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Shane Trejo, Tenth Amendment Center • Tue 2015 May 26, 9:41pm

A bill taking a step towards gold and silver as commonly-used legal tender in Texas passed in the state Senate today by an overwhelming 29-2 vote.

Michael Boldin, Tenth Amendment Center • Mon 2015 May 4, 7:06pm

On Thursday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill to prohibit the state from implementing or enforcing federal gun “laws,” rules, regulations and orders that are contrary to the Tennessee state constitution.

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Michael Boldin, Tenth Amendment Center • Wed 2015 Apr 22, 8:00pm

A bill that would nullify in practice certain Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules that prevent terminally ill patients from accessing treatments was signed into law by Gov. Fallin today. Oklahoma is now the 15th state to pass such a bill into law.…

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Michael Boldin, Tenth Amendment Center • Tue 2015 Apr 14, 6:03pm

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a bill into law that creates significant roadblocks for implementation of the Affordable Care Act, leaving the federal program without an enforcement mechanism in the state.

Shane Trejo, Tenth Amendment Center • Fri 2015 Apr 10, 9:37pm

Today, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez signed a bill into law that not only restricts the state from seizing property without due process, but throws a wrench into federal efforts to do the same.…

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Dallas Franklin, KFOR-TV • Mon 2015 Apr 6, 7:09pm

The White House has denied the state’s request for assistance to aid individuals and businesses in the tornado stricken areas in Oklahoma, according to Governor Mary Fallin.…

Michael Boldin, Tenth Amendment Center • Thu 2015 Apr 2, 3:57pm

PHOENIX (Apr. 2, 2015) – Today, new Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey vetoed a bill that would have allowed gold and silver to be used as “legal tender” in the state, as required by the Constitution. …

Hemp
Michael Boldin, Tenth Amendment Center • Sun 2015 Mar 29, 7:27pm

BISMARCK, N.D. …Last week, Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed a bill into law authorizing the farming, production, and sale of industrial hemp in the state, effectively nullifying the federal prohibition on the same….

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Shane Trejo, Tenth Amendment Center • Mon 2015 Mar 16, 5:20pm

A bill introduced in the Texas Senate would prohibit the state from providing resources or personnel for the enforcement of Obamacare within the state…. Practically speaking, this would make it difficult, if not impossible, for the federal government to run Obamacare in the Lone Star State. …

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Randy Krehbiel & Barbara Hoberock, Tulsa World • Thu 2015 Mar 12, 6:44pm

Separate pieces of legislation on a so-called Article V convention advanced through the Oklahoma Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday. …[House bill] would limit the convention to considering a budget-control amendment… [Senate version] says the convention may propose “amendments to the United States Constitution that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the term of office for its officials and members of Congress.” … The two measures now switch sides of the Capitol…

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TMH, Noisy Room • Thu 2015 Mar 5, 1:02pm

…Police officers representing local, state and Federal agencies rounded up everyone in attendance, confiscated their cell phones, laptops or other recording devices and then fingerprinted each person. All this was done with a search warrant signed by a judge for an alleged misdemeanor committed by two of the attendees who were present at the meeting.

Tell me it isn’t just me… that this entire event come across as bizarre… to the point of making your blood pressure elevate? …

For some reason I found myself checking a map of Texas. Bryan is not too far from Waco…remembering a different show of force wherein the Federal government decided to overplay their hand. …

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Dylan Baddour, Houston Chronicle, My San Antonio • Wed 2015 Feb 25, 8:01pm

"…at least 20 officers corralled, searched and fingerprinted all 60 meeting attendees, before seizing all cellphones and recording equipment in a Valentine's Day 2015 raid on the Texas separatist group.…"

Reason TV • Fri 2014 Jun 20, 4:06pm

Activists in Northern California, near the border with Oregon, are pushing to secede from the Golden State. [Video]

washingtonpost.com • Fri 2011 Sep 2, 9:07pm

Washington is among eight big-city metropolitan regions in which minorities became a majority in the past decade, according to a new analysis of census data showing white population declines in many of the largest metro areas. Along with Washington, the regions surrounding New York, San Diego, Las Vegas and Memphis have become majority-minority since 2000. Non-Hispanic whites are a minority in 22 of the country's 100-biggest urban areas.

news.yahoo.com • Fri 2011 Jul 15, 8:21pm

Meet John Rolczynski: The Grand Forks, N.D., resident has been trying to tell his legislators that an error in the state's founding document means that technically, North Dakota is not a state. Sounds like the ravings of a grumpy old man, but as it turns out, Rolczynski was right. News of uncertain statehood has put North Dakota in the spotlight and garnered big buzz. Here's the story: Back in 1889, North Dakota was carved out of the Dakota Territory and admitted to the Union at the same time as South Dakota. Or so everyone thought. But the state founders who drafted the constitution left out the key requirement that the governor and other top officials take an oath of office, putting the state constitution in conflict with the federal one. So Rolczynski has been arguing for the last 16 years that the omission made the state illegitimate.

losangeles.cbslocal.com • Fri 2011 Jul 8, 6:23pm

Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone... said in a statement late Thursday that Riverside, Imperial, San Diego, Orange, San Bernardino, Kings, Kern, Fresno, Tulare, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa and Mono counties should form the new state of South California. ... would allow officials to focus on securing borders, balancing budgets, improving schools and creating a vibrant economy....

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