Olsmithie,

Good to see someone thinking along these lines. You are a true Patriot!

If there was one big failure by the Congress of 1995 - 2005 it was not liberating the States from Medicaid.

Also, join me in calling for the return of the Western lands under Federal control!

Me and the little lady are moving to the land of the free and the home of the brave. I wonder how many other people after reading the article are thinking, Gee honey, maybe we should move to Montana.”
Seriously, my wife and I often have a conversation that goes something like this:
Me: “This country is becoming something that I am not proud of. What is going on?
Wife: “I know. It’s terrible and getting worse fast. But where else on earth is there anyplace that is as free as we are here?”
Me: There’s always Montana. It’ll be a long time before the left manages to gut their state of its freedoms. Either that or we can raise sheep in New Zealand…”
Wife: They won’t let us come to New Zealand because they don’t allow immigrants without jobs there. Finish your book so we can retire on the royalties and then they’ll let us in.. Montana is wayyyy too cold for me.”
Me: Yeah, but in Montana you can drive your truck really fast, carry a gun on your hip and eat fattening foods too. I think it’s pretty much the last bastion of American Freedom. But you’re right it’s too cold….”
Well now I’m re-thinking my argumaents about the whole cold thing….

McCain’s margin vs Obama in the last election was very slim..

I lived in Montana for seven years before relocating to Colorado. I loved it there. It truly is a different kind of place. I didn’t vote for Schweitzer but I’ll sure back him for this one.

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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

Yes, we rock. Just a bit o’ trivia for you, it is legal to own an automatic rifle in Montana if you make it yourself. As for the whole REAL ID thing, The feds finally stopped pestering us about it when Schweitzer told them to shove the whole thing where the sun don’t shine. Don’t be fooled though, there are plenty of liberals here. They just confine themselves to two major communes: Missoula and Whitefish. The rest of the fourth largest state in the union is populated by cowboys welders and nuke silos. And you are right, Schweitzer is not a run of the mill Dem, even if our two senators are. The man supports abortion and same sex marriage, and he has done a lot to bring “green” energy sources like biofuels and wind energy to our state; but he has a passion for freedom and liberty and for that we love him.

They’re not saying the federal law doesn’t apply in Montana. They’re saying it doesn’t apply when Interstate Commerce doesn’t apply.

Heh.

This same bill has been introduced into the Texas State Legislature by Representative Leo Berman. It passed committee and is scheduled to be introduced for full house voting in the next couple weeks. So for those of you that don’t like the cold, but like this law, we are always looking for new, conservative Texans!!

Looks like Montana wants to water the tree of liberty. Let’s see is the liberal press goes after the dem gov of the state. The liberal press loves him on energy and all that green stuff let’s see what happens.

I wonder how janet napalitano will treat montana and the dem gov. i wonder if she will put montana on the right wing terrorist list.

Didn’t make it through this session, but it is still live for next session. Introduced by Rep. Mike Kelly of Fairbanks, a good guy. Unless something wierd happens or it becomes some National cause celebre, it will pass. Red states really should be taking all sorts of things like this on. Let the Fed enforce the State borders. If the product is manufactured in a state for use in that state, it is none of the Fed’s business unless it is taken to another state that cares. Only then is it a federal issue. Does this sound a little like Fugitive Slave Act arguments to those of you who know some history? I’m feeling the need to poke pointy sticks at the US Government!

The federal government is an unmanageable monster that will not be reigned in from D.C. It will take the states reasserting themselves and saying “No more!”

Bring back the Principles of ‘98! Bring back nullification!

I wish I lived in a state with some cojones.

We worked hard on this as a party and as individuals.

But don’t be fooled by Schweitzer. He signed it because he had to.

The man hates guns as much as any Democrat does.

He has privately boasted of fixing elections and privately whispered his hatred of having to put on a “show” of supporting the Second Amendment. In particular, he comments that he dressed up like a “yokel” and posed with a gun while on horseback, because he had to, to get elected.

He’s a socialist, and was just as wrapped up in the New Party as Obama was, as Jon Tester was, and as Max Baucus was. He’ll turn on the Second Amendment first chance he gets. I should say “is,” because they never really went anywhere. They just infiltrated, like lice.

are some of the best defenders of all liberties. This is the best 10th amendment action I have seen, maybe ever.

my column today, ironically

http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/05/05/examining-the-conservative-wisdom-of-gun-rights-examinations/

link comes from Drudge.

http://www.newsok.com/house-bypasses-governors-veto-to-claim-oklahomas-sovereignty/article/3366762

have a Democratic governor and two Democrats in the US Senate?

over the next several years. People are sick of the government forcing their ideology uniformity across all the states.

The Second Amendment assures the rest of them. In this case, it’s the Tenth that is reinforced more than any other.

A column by Bill Shipp appeared in several north Georgia newspapers and painted Gov. Rick Perry and future GA Gov. John Oxendine as nuts and wackos for standing up for the 9th and 10th Amendments. The following blog was my response to Shipp’s column… I think you’ll like it

http://publius772000.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/in-defence-of-the-secessionist-traitors/