CONBUSTIBLE 06/08/2013

DoD creates pathway to military rule The Constitution gives the U.S. Military no power to authorize war or take any military action without first receiving authorization by an Act of Congress. Domestically, the Armed Forces are just as limited. Under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 the Military is forbidden to serve any police functions without Congressional authorization. Read More...

Amash Leads Letter to NSA, FBI on Phone Tracking Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) led a bipartisan coalition of House members in a letter to the NSA and FBI demanding more information about the government’s telephone tracking program. Read More...

PA Police Chief Nullifies Gun Control In His Jurisdiction Remember, when a law enforcement officer, like Chief Kessler, refuses to enforce an unconstitutional act, he is not breaking the law, he is upholding the law. This is because unconstitutional acts of legislatures are NOT the law. Read More...

How the 16th and 17th Amendments Ushered the Era of Big Government Two things were required to create a huge, centralized federal government. First was the need to fund a massive administration. Secondly, there needed to be the political will to usurp power from both the citizenry and the states. With the passage of the 16th and 17th Amendments, the big government progressives got their wish. Read More...

Federal Power Grab: Standing Army and Civil Disturbances In Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, the Congressional appropriation of money for funding the Army is limited to two years. There is no limitations on funding the Navy, and in fact the Congress is instructed in the next clause to “provide and maintain a Navy.” Read More...

Maryland v. King: The Total Loss of Our Bodily Integrity Once again the Court has sided with the guardians of the police state over the defenders of individual liberty in determining that DNA samples may be extracted from people arrested for “serious offenses.” While the Court claims to have made its decision based upon concerns of properly identifying criminal suspects upon arrest, what they have actually done is opened the door for a nationwide dragnet of suspects targeted via DNA sampling. Read More...

The Constitutional Convention Did Not Exceed Its Power and the Constitution is not “Unconstitutional” Judging by recent claims in the media such as this one, there is still a lot of life in the old tale (dating back to the Anti-Federalists) that the 1787 federal convention “ran away” and that the Constitution was unconstitutionally adopted. Read More...