Prog tax hikers push class warfare, government control of wealth, hysteria

*Prog is shorthand for progressive.

Progressive Democrats are pushing a vote on taxes Saturday. These progs are pushing class warfare, government control of wealth and hysteria to justify enabling a tax increase by permitting tax rates to expire.

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Book sales climb as ‘Nullification’ taps national psyche

By Kay B. Day

Thomas E. Woods, Jr.'s new book 'Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century' (Regnery) is climbing rapidly in sales.The new book ‘Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century’ by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. was technically released on Monday, but it’s already climbed to the top of amazon.com listings, sitting happily at #37. The book apparently has tapped into the national psyche, touching a nerve with centrists, conservatives and libertarians who believe the federal government has exceeded limits established by the US Constitution.

The New American explains the thesis in an excellent review: “Nullification is an indispensable book about what could become the most effective means of stopping an out-of-control federal government: nullification. ‘Nullification’ is simply an act by states (and occasionally individuals) to resist unconstitutional federal laws. The term ‘nullification’ was coined by Thomas Jefferson in his 1798 Kentucky Resolutions that protested the Alien and Sedition Acts' unconstitutional criminal ban on criticism of the President.”

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States’ rights heat up blogs and branded media as ‘Tenthers’ battle ‘Bloaters’

by Kay B. Day

Branded media and blogs are talking about the powers of the federal government in relation to the states, a topic The US Report has covered for months. Fans of Big Government who are equally fond of labels, call those who believe in state sovereignty ‘tenthers.’ To apply labels of our own, we observe neoliberals writing in various statist publications who, perhaps wishfully, call the sovereignty movement a “fringe constitutional theory.” The ‘tenther’ label refers to the Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights acknowledging powers “not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” A responsive label for Big Government fans is ‘Bloaters.’ If any entity in the country needs a diet, that would be the federal government whose BMI is flatly off the charts. [Article continues after photo.]

Charles T. Dazey’s play ‘The War of Wealth’ debuted in February, 1895. The New York Times gave it rave reviews, noting “200 people on the stage.” Judging by the review, the production explored good vs. evil described by The Times as an “interesting topic of a war of wealth pitted against wealth…” The play seems appropriate considering various bailouts taxpayers have funded more than a century after the play’s premiere. [Strobridge & Co. Lith., the US Library of Congress. No known restrictions on publication.]

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