November 10, 2021

Nullify(Big Govt)! Thomas Jefferson's Kentucky Resolutions Pass Today in History






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Today in history, on Nov. 10. 1798, the Kentucky legislature took a bold stand against federal overreach with the passage of resolutions penned by Thomas Jefferson.

It's one thing to claim the Constitution limits the federal government to its specific list of powers. It's another thing to hold the federal government to that list. So, what do we do when the federal government oversteps its constitutional limits?

Opponents of the clearly unconstitutional Alien and Sedition Acts had to grapple with this question way back in 1798.

During the summer of that year, Congress passed, and President John Adams signed into law, four acts together known as the Alien and Sedition Acts. With winds of war blowing across the Atlantic, the Federalist Party majority wrote the laws to prevent "seditious" acts from weakening the U.S. government. Federalists utilized fear of the French to stir up support for these draconian laws, expanding federal power, concentrating authority in the executive branch and severely restricting freedom of speech.

Two of the Alien Acts gave the president the power to declare foreign U.S. residents an enemy, lock them up and deport them. These acts vested judicial authority in the executive branch and obliterated due process. The Sedition Act essentially outlawed criticizing the federal government – a clear violation of the First Amendment.

Recognizing the grave danger these acts posed to the basic constitutional structure, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison drafted resolutions that were passed by the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures on Nov. 10 and Dec. 21, 1798, respectively. The "Principles of '98" formalized the principles of nullification as the rightful remedy when the federal government oversteps its authority.

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The Alien and Sedition Acts outraged many Kentuckians. Several counties in the Commonwealth adopted resolutions condemning the acts, including Fayette, Clark, Bourbon, Madison and Woodford.

A Madison County Kentucky militia regiment issued an ominous resolution of its own, stating, "The Alien and Sedition Bills are an infringement of the Constitution and of natural rights, and that we cannot approve or submit to them."

Several thousand people gathered at an outdoor meeting protesting the acts in Lexington on August 13.

The push to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts was not simply the act of opportunistic politicians. It rose out of the passionate demands of the citizenry in Kentucky, as well as Virginia.

Jefferson penned the original draft of the Kentucky Resolutions within a month of Congress passing the Sedition Act.

"That the several States composing, the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes — delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."

After outlining each constitutional violation and overreach of federal power, Jefferson called for action – nullify now!

"Therefore this commonwealth is determined, as it doubts not its co-States are, to submit to undelegated, and consequently unlimited powers in no man, or body of men on earth: that in cases of an abuse of the delegated powers, the members of the general government, being chosen by the people, a change by the people would be the constitutional remedy; but, where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy: that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, (casus non fÅ“deris) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them." [Emphasis added]

Jefferson sent former Virginia ratifying convention delegate Wilson Cary Nicholas a draft of the resolution, likely hoping the state legislator could get them introduced in Virginia. In October 1798, Wilson indicated that state representative John Breckinridge was willing to introduce the resolutions in Kentucky. Breckinridge suffered from tuberculosis and made a recuperative trip to Sweet Springs, Va. late in August of that year. Nicholas likely gave the Kentucky lawmaker a copy of Jefferson's draft during that trip.

On Nov. 7, 1798, Gov. James Garrard addressed the Kentucky state legislature, noting the vehement opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts. He said Kentucky was, "if not in a state of insurrection, yet utterly disaffected to the federal government." And noted that the state "being deeply interested in the conduct of the national government, must have a right to applaud or to censure that government, when applause or censure becomes its due," urging the legislature to reaffirm its support of the U.S. Constitution while "entering your protest against all unconstitutional laws and impolitic proceedings."

That same day, Breckinridge announced to the House he intended to submit resolutions addressing Garrard's message. The following day, the Fayette County lawmaker followed through, introducing an amended version of Jefferson's draft.

Most notably, Breckinridge omitted the word nullification from the final version considered by the Kentucky legislature, seeking to moderate the tone of the resolution. Removal of the nullification reference apparently didn't bother Jefferson, and in fact, did little to change the fundamental thrust of the resolution. By declaring the Alien and Sedition Acts unconstitutional, null and void, the Kentucky legislature voted on a nullification resolution, even with the actual word omitted.

The resolution passed the House on Nov. 10 with only three dissenting votes. The Senate unanimously concurred three days later, and Gov. Garrard signed the resolution on Nov. 16.

The resolutions didn't end the Alien and Sedition Acts, but they laid a philosophical foundation to resist them through further state action.

The following day, Jefferson sent a draft of his resolution to James Madison, writing:

"I inclose you a copy of the draught of the Kentuckey resolves. I think we should distinctly affirm all the important principles they contain, so as to hold to that ground in future, and leave the matter in such a train as that we may not be committed absolutely to push the matter to extremities, & yet may be free to push as far as events will render prudent." [Emphasis added]

Kentucky followed up with a second resolution affirming its position in 1799, notably including the word "nullification," omitted in the final version of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 passed by the state legislature.

"The several states who formed that instrument (the Constitution), being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and, That a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy."

Jefferson's principles have endured for over 220 years despite relentless attacks and demagoguery. Americans have appealed to the ideas brilliantly articulated in the Kentucky Resolutions to protect free speech, to promote economic justice, to stop military conscription and to protect the rights of blacks during the fugitive slave era.

Jefferson's words leave no doubt – nullification was the rightful remedy, and it remains so today.

--Mike Maharrey, TAC

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November 05, 2021

Mike Huckabee~ DURHAM DOES IT AGAIN with another indictment





November 5, 2021

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1.  DURHAM DOES IT AGAIN WITH ANOTHER INDICTMENT: Igor Danchenko, the Russian national living in the Washington DC area who was allegedly Christopher Steele's primary sub-source for the fictional "dossier" –- in reality, opposition research funded by Hillary's presidential campaign –- has been indicted by Special Counsel John Durham, who is looking into the origins of the Trump-Russia "collusion" scandal, otherwise known as the Trump-Russia HOAX or, as we like to call it, "My Big Fat Russia Conspiracy Theory."

The Special Counsel seems to be very gradually and methodically connecting all the dots leading back to Hillary and her 2016 presidential campaign. As law professor Jonathan Turley said Thursday, "Danchenko's arrest is a seismic development and confirmed Durham is far from done with his investigation."

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/11/04/igor-danchenko-arrested-as-part-of-durham-investigation/

Danchenko has been charged with five counts of making false statements. According to Turley, he had told the FBI that Steele asked him to look for compromising material on Trump and also said the dossier was "unsubstantiated" (that part's true). Danchenko had his own source for crazy dossier stories, and he's listed anonymously in Durham's indictment as "PR – Executive -1," now confirmed to be a man named Charles Dolan, described by Turley as "a close Clinton adviser who had held high positions within the Democrat Party and prior Clinton campaigns."

In fact, Dolan's attorney, Ralph Martin, has come out and said Dolan is the PR executive. And it appears that Dolan had the very kind of contacts within the Russian government that Trump and his campaign were falsely accused of having. Joel B. Polack at BREITBART has more details from the indictment.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/04/confirmed-pr-executive-1-in-durham-indictment-docs-is-charles-dolan-jr/

Dolan apparently gifted Danchenko with an autobiography of Hillary Clinton, with the handwritten inscription, "To my good friend [Igor]. a great Democrat." Dolan definitely fits the description; he has served "as chairman of a national Democratic political organization" and "state chairman of former President Clinton's 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns," as well as "adviser to Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign." He had also been appointed by President Bill Clinton to two four-year terms with an advisory commission at the State Department. During the 2016 Hillary campaign, he actively campaigned and participated in calls and events on behalf of Hillary Clinton."

Turley thinks Danchenko is the sort of participant that prosecutors think they can "flip" to give information on the key players who used him in this effort. These might range from Steele himself to Clinton counsel Marc Elias to Clinton campaign officials.

Samuel Chamberlain at the NEW YORK POST calls Charles H. Dolan, Jr., "an elusive ally" of the Clintons. The charging document accuses Danchenko of intentionally misleading the FBI when he told them he hadn't spoken to Dolan about any material in the Trump-Russia file.

https://nypost.com/2021/11/05/clinton-crony-charles-h-dolan-jr-takes-center-stage-in-latest-durham-indictment/

The evidence shows he had, though. In August of 2016, Danchenko emailed Dolan to say he was working on "a project against Trump" and to ask him for "any thought, rumor or allegation" (!) about Paul Manafort, who had recently resigned as Trump's campaign chairman. Dolan emailed him back to dish some dirt that he said he got from former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski over a drink. That email appears almost verbatim in the Steele dossier.

But the indictment says that Dolan told the FBI that the "drink with a GOP friend" was made up, and that all he gave to Danchenko was gleaned from news reports.

Adam Goldman and Charlie Savage reported on the Danchenko indictment for THE NEW YORK TIMES.

https://archive.md/kGmqR

The dossier was intended to show that then-candidate Donald Trump was "colluding" with the Russian government for help in getting himself elected President. Nothing of consequence in Steele's series of memos has ever been verified, but that didn't stop Trump's enemies from issuing hysterical made-up media reports in service to the hoax, some of which persist to this day.

Also, it was because of the Steele dossier that a FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrant was granted in October 2016 for the FBI to spy on Trump campaign adviser and American citizen Carter Page. Through him, they were able to spy on the entire campaign and even go 'back in time' to look at previous communications. And the fabricated contents, which included a salacious story involving Russian prostitutes at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton (we all know the one; it likely came from Dolan), were printed by BUZZFEED just days before Trump's inauguration.

Though primary source Danchenko is Russian by birth, he resides in the Washington DC area and the material he related was thirdhand at best. The FBI knew after they interviewed him that his "information" was not necessarily true, but they went with it anyway, after Hillary's attorney's pressured them from every side.

According to the NYT, a "Justice" Department inspector general report from 2019 sharply criticized the FBI "for continuing to cite material from the dossier after the Bureau interviewed Mr. Danchenko without alerting judges that some of what he had said had cast doubt on the contents of the dossier."

Danchenko was also interviewed by the NYT, and said that he had been tasked only with providing "raw" information to Steele. He apparently has been investigated to see if he's a Russian agent, but he denies that strongly.

As the NYT reports –- they must be trying to get ahead of this story –- "Mr. Steele's business intelligence firm was a subcontractor to another research firm, Fusion GPS, which in turn had been hired by the Perkins Coie law firm, which was working for the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Mr. Danchenko said he was not aware of who Steele's client was at the time and considered himself a "nonpartisan analyst and researcher."

But Danchenko worked for the extremely anti-Trump "think-tank" the Brookings Institution from 2005 to 2010. Last February, Durham used a subpoena to retrieve from there his old personnel files and related documents. If you have time, it's interesting to see what the NYT reporters wrote about that back in April.

https://archive.md/N8m90

TOWNHALL also reported Danchenoko's indictment.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2021/11/04/igor-danchenko-n2598565

Finally, recall that the person who apparently introduced Danchenko to Steele was...(drum roll, please)..."Trump impeachment star" Fiona Hill. REDSTATE reported this back in January. But they assumed this story would go away; they weren't counting on Durham piecing it all together.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/01/22/shocker-impeachment-star-lied-about-her-contacts-with-christopher-steele-n314409


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2.  UPDATES ON TUESDAY'S ELECTIONS: Incumbent New Jersey Democrat Phil Murphy declared victory and the AP named him the winner, but not so fast. Republican Jack Ciatarrelli already blasted that call as irresponsible, and he's now made it clear that he has not conceded.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jack-caittarelli-refuses-to-concede-nj-gubernatorial-race

Ciattarelli says it's premature to call a winner when there are still thousands of mail-in and provisional votes yet to count, and the two are separated by only a fraction of a point out of 2.4 million votes. Ballots arriving by November 8th are still eligible to be counted (I bet Democrats are suddenly cursing those "count votes that come in for a week after the election" rules they pushed.) The state legally has until November 18th to finish counting and certifying the vote. Even if Ciatarrelli loses, with a margin this razor thin, he has until November 18th to demand a recount, so you might have finished your Thanksgiving dinner by the time this is over.

In the meantime, Ciatarrelli advised supporters that "while consideration is paid to any and all credible reports" of vote fraud, they shouldn't believe "wild conspiracy theories or online rumors." I assume he means stories like this, although I'm not sure yet which of those two categories it falls into:

https://100percentfedup.com/nj-election-update-56-voting-machines-were-shut-down-shipped-to-warehouse-on-election-night-in-dem-stronghold-county-where-gov-murphy-got-over-113k-votes/

3. EVEN  MORE ELECTION UPDATES: Before any Democrats start screaming about Ciatarrelli assaulting democracy, note that Democrat State Senate President Steve Sweeney is also refusing to concede to truck driver Edward Durr, who apparently dealt him a stunning defeat with his low budget, grassroots campaign. Sweeney says they should wait until all the votes are counted, and besides, 12,000 votes were just found in one unnamed New Jersey county.

https://100percentfedup.com/here-we-go-democrat-nj-senate-president-refuses-to-concede-to-republican-truck-driver-who-unseated-him-claims-12000-ballots-were-recently-found/

While that's a lot to take in, let me call attention to one phrase that's especially concerning: "There were 12,000 ballots recently found in one county." "Found?" That seems to imply that they were lost or misplaced. Aren't poll workers supposed to know where all the ballots are at all times? That seems like a pretty basic duty of the job.

And in Texas, eight proposed state constitutional amendments all passed overwhelmingly, including a couple that were obviously rebukes to government overreach during the pandemic. Proposition 3, to bar the prohibiting or limiting of religious services, passed 2-1. Proposition 6 allows nursing home residents to choose an essential care giver who cannot be blocked from visiting. That passed by nearly 88% to 12%. Just in case any Democrats are still under the delusion that their COVID policies are actually popular.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/texas-amendments-2021-state-constitution


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4. OSHA REGULATION ISSUED

OSHA has issued its federal regulation mandating COVID vaccinations or weekly testing for all businesses with over 100 employees. And if you think that's a clear overreach of government authority, then that's just the start of this 490-page document.

https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-vaccine-mandate-worse-thought-look-punishing-unvaxxed-employees/

The story at the link explains the many ways in which this is unscientific, likely unconstitutional, and less a public health measure than an authoritarian power grab designed to punish and shame anyone who resists the vaccine. For instance, if you get the vaccine and experience side effects (hey, they actually admitted those exist!), your employer has to give you paid sick leave. But if you opt for weekly testing, you have to pay for it yourself.

While President Biden seems to think the message of Tuesday's elections was "Thank you, sir, may we have another?," various red state Governors, including those from Texas, Florida and South Dakota, are already planning to file lawsuits to block the rule the minute it takes effect on January 4th. A group of health care workers in Pennsylvania are already suing over their vaccine mandate, arguing that the issue has become so politicized that getting vaccinated is now a political act, and forcing someone to engage in a political act they oppose is a violation of the First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

The RNC is also suing, and they make the interesting point that if the justification for OSHA's ironfisted policy is that it's a public health "emergency," then why are they waiting until after the holidays to impose it? Is it not enough of an emergency to risk infuriating voters any more than they already have by ruining their Thanksgivings and Christmases, too?

https://www.westernjournal.com/osha-considering-permanent-covid-vax-rule-7-horrifying-requirements-americans/

Ben Shapiro waded through OSHA's document and listed seven areas where OSHA appears to be planning a web of draconian regulations that will treat businesses as if we're in a permanent pandemic as deadly as the black plague. These include eventually getting rid of testing to force everyone to get vaccinated; wearing even more restrictive masks; never-ending social distancing, barriers and ventilation requirements; making fully vaccinated people wear masks; and no exceptions for people with natural immunity from having already had the disease.

The good news: they're forced to take public comments, so I assume they will get PLENTY of those. Also, Shapiro urges Senate Republicans to press Democrats for a Congressional Review Act vote to intervene. As he puts it, "Force the Democrats to sign on to this authoritarian nonsense." They can either continue to abuse federal power against the American people and businesses and get this week's voter revolt times 100 next November…or they can vote to rein it in. Either way, it's going to get reined in. They just have to decide whether it will happen with them or without them in office.


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5.  STILL A SKUNK: When it comes to parental anger over Critical Race Theory being forced onto their kids in school, the left's response is to deny that CRT exists or that it's taught any lower than universities. It doesn't exist, and it's also racist to oppose it. Got that?

Well, denial ain't just a river in Egypt (and if you attend one of today's public schools, that may be the most you'll ever learn about geography.) The Twitter blue checks, liberal media figures and school board members might claim CRT isn't in public schools, but a growing number of teachers are standing up to say yes, it is, and they're fed up with it.

This week, a couple of videos went viral in which an Indianapolis educator/administrator and a Wisconsin teacher blew the whistle, explaining how CRT is everywhere. They just carefully avoid calling it that. But a skunk by any other name would smell as bad (that's also as close to that dead white male Shakespeare as you'll ever get from today's public schools.)

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/11/04/yes-we-continue-to-lie-admin-in-indianas-largest-school-district-reveals-what-we-mean-when-we-tell-you-that-we-arent-teaching-crt-video/

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/11/04/conservative-wisconsin-teacher-and-writer-daniel-buck-pushes-back-against-leftist-narrative-that-critical-race-theory-is-all-a-republican-lie-video/


HYMNAL: THY STRONG WORD

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Thy strong word

did cleave the darkness;

at thy speaking it was done;

for created light we thank thee,

while thine ordered seasons run:

Alleluia, alleluia!

Praise to thee who light dost send!

Alleluia, alleluia!

Alleluia without end!

Lo, on those who dwelt

in darkness,

dark as night and deep as death,

broke the light of thy salvation,

breathed thine own

live-giving breath:

Alleluia, alleluia!

Praise to thee who light dost send!

Alleluia, alleluia!

Alleluia without end!

Thy strong word

bespeaks us righteous;

bright with thine own holiness,

glorious now,

we press toward glory,

and our lives our hopes confess:

Alleluia, alleluia!

Praise to thee who light dost send!

Alleluia, alleluia!

Alleluia without end!

God the Father, Light-Creator,

to thee laud and honor be;

to thee, Light of Light begotten,

praise be sung eternally;

Holy Spirit, Light-Revealer,

glory, glory be to thee;

mortals, angels, now and ever

praise the Holy Trinity.


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