ACLU Lawsuit Shows It No Longer Cares about Campus Civil Liberties Mark Meckler May 15, 2020 Big Government, Featured, News Four advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit Thursday over Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' revised federal guidelines for sexual assault allegations on the campuses of colleges and K-12 schools. They claim these changes "dramatically undermine" victims’...
COS Family Loss: California Surfer Killed in Shark Attack Mark Meckler May 11, 2020 Big Government, Featured, News When Citizens for Self-Governance created the Convention of States Project, our first hire was general counsel Robert Kelly. He’s been helping us through the complicated legal world of advocacy for years with skill, wisdom, and good humor. His entire...
Netflix’s Waco Miniseries Bringing Attention to the Incompetent, Deadly, Federal Government Mark Meckler May 11, 2020 Big Government, Featured, News The hot new Netflix show right now is a Paramount-produced mini-series which dramatizes the government’s 51 day siege of the Branch Dividian cult’s compound in Waco, Texas. With President Bill Clinton’s approval, Attorney General Janet Reno approved...
Jake Tapper Exposes Kavanaugh/Biden Double Standard Mark Meckler May 5, 2020 Big Government, Featured, News Sometimes the media gets it right. Jake Tapper interviewed Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper on Sunday. Tapper had the guts to ask Whitmer why she believed Christine Blasey Ford (Brett Kavanaugh’s...
Kansas Couple Gets $150,000 for Overreaching Government’s Botched Tomato Raid Mark Meckler May 5, 2020 Big Government, Featured, News In 2012, Johnson County sheriff’s deputies led a raid against a Kansas City couple as they unsuccessfully searched for marijuana. Robert and Adlynn Harte are retired CIA employees with two children. Mr. Harte and his kids went to a hydroponic gardening...
Politics of snitching: Dems More Likely to Report on you During Pandemic Mark Meckler May 4, 2020 Big Government, Featured, News As Americans have been in lock down for what seems like years, we are gradually getting back to normal and trying to live our lives. But a new study shows that there are snitches out there, ready to report you for perceived infractions. Here are the...
Michael Jordan Was Right: ‘Republicans Buy Shoes Too’ Mark Meckler May 4, 2020 Big Government, Featured, News If you’re like many Americans, you were glued to your television set Sunday night to see the next two episodes of The Last Dance, a 10-part documentary series which follows Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls on the road to their final...
High School Seniors Now Considering ‘Gap Years’ Which Could Devastate Colleges Mark Meckler April 30, 2020 Big Government, Featured, News This is going to hurt. Nearly one in six graduating seniors are now considering taking a gap year instead of attending a four-year college in the fall due to the uncertainty related to the Wuhan Flu Epidemic. Though some states are beginning to loosen...
California “Protest Ban” Is Unconstitutional Mark Meckler April 29, 2020 Big Government, Featured, News An organization called “Protect Democracy” sent a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Highway Patrol (CHP) asking them to stop banning protests during the Wuhan Flu epidemic. CHP’s policy is currently unconstitutional. As...
Kentucky Governor Apologizes to Man Named Tupac Shakur; Shakur Accepts his Apology Mark Meckler April 29, 2020 Big Government, Featured, News That’s one headline, isn’t it? Governor Andy Beshear was holding a coronavirus press conference on Monday, when he began to complain about people abusing the unemployment review system which slowed things down for everyone. “We had someone apply for...