Treason, states rights and patriotic post office unity

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 18th at 11:49 PM  | 

Conservative fealty to the U.S. Constitution in the Age of ObamaDems’ Great Depression II and the Race for 2012 The occasion of America’s first great depression saw the exponential growth of a heretofore limited central government that was thought to have been a key ingredient of the 1789 Miracle at Philadelphia that had made our country exceptional. The post-WWII military retrenchment remained unrecognizably large by pre-Hoover | Read More »

Nullification as legitimate act of civil disobedience

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  January 28th at 09:28 AM  | 

This South Carolina Gamecock does not favor firing on federal forts in Charleston Harbor nor passing secession resolutions of any kind. In fact, the Palmetto State’s flagship university sports teams’ nickname honors Thomas “Gamecock” Sumter, a Revolutionary War hero that founded the Union and our signature quote at the bottom of this and all our rooster crowings, honors an Old Hickory who saved the Union | Read More »

State’s Rights: Nullification, secession, race and interstate commerce

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  May 8th at 12:06 AM  | 

Maximizing happiness pursuits via state sovereignty in the age of Obama   It is one of the great tragedies of American history that one of the key components in the brilliant governing structure erected by the framers of the Constitution got so inextricable and nearly exclusively identified with race. I speak, of course, of the concept of federalism and state’s rights. The brilliance of this | Read More »