LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Aidan Mattis Latest in the statehood movement from the Federal Capitol of the United States of America comes a bill introduced by Democratic Del. Eleanor Holmes Norten. Norten argues that DC, a 227 year old federal municipality, deserves statehood because it is larger than two states, pays more in…
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton “Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.” Frank Herbert We have above some of the collected wisdom a historian/writer/politician and the writer of Dune. Suffice to say being the follow up act is a…
By R. Brownell Coming in from the Tenther Blog, Kansas has just proposed a piece of legislation that has now limited the excessive interaction between the state of Kansas and the federal government: No state agency, state agent or state employee shall enter into any agreement, including, but not limited to, cost-sharing agreements and grants, which…