Podcast: Play in new window | Download Mike and Michael talk about the power to declare vs the power to wage war, the war powers act of 1973, Obama’s unconstitutional military adventures in Libya, and the founder’s view on war power. Mike Slater is host of the Mike Slater Show airing weekday mornings from 6-9am…Details
In our post, Pennsylvania Legislature Joins the TSA Resistance Movement, we told you about Pennsylvania’s House Resolution 16 and House Bill 852. Both of these items were offered by Representative Tallman in resistance to the TSA’s Unconstitutional airport screening measures. These pieces of legislation are currently referred to the State Government Committee.Details
“Good Morning Dave…” This was the cold voice of a machine that went insane and killed everyone in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It terrified the audience because the audience knew that the computer was now in control of the ship and they were at its mercy. The crew lost control because the machine was no longer bound by the crew’s own programming. The machine started to write its own program as it wanted and ignored the crew’s own instructions.
The classical liberal view of the law is that it was like a computer program and the government is like the computer that runs the program. This allowed the people to remain in control of the machinary of the state as long as the government executed the law precisely as the people instructed it to.Details