"10 Minutes Closer to Freedom" Ignorance of economics leads millions of Americans to embrace bad political policy. In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I outline a few crucial basic economic principles you need to grasp so you don't fall into politicians' traps. Minimum wage laws, anti-price gouging laws, regulations and "free" healthcare -..
Read moreThoughts from Maharrey Head #62: States’ Rights
"10 Minutes Closer to Freedom" We hear the term states' rights thrown around a lot, but most people don't really know what it means. In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I talk about the concept of states' rights and its importance in the American constitutional system. What do we mean when we use..
Read moreThoughts from Maharrey Head #61 – The Real American Revolution
"10 Minutes Closer to Freedom" We usually think of the American Revolution as the war with the British. But there was an even more fundamental revolution that began long before the first shot was fired - a revolution in political thought. I talk about it in this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head. In an..
Read moreThoughts from Maharrey Head #60: Strategy – Pretend D.C. Doesn’t Exist
"10 Minutes Closer to Freedom" Do you really think Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will "save" America? Everybody focus all of their political energy on Washington D.C. This is a complete waste of time. In this Episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head I explain why and talk about a better strategy. Tis the season for..
Read moreThoughts from Maharrey Head #59: States Undermining Hemp Prohibition
"10 Minutes Closer to Freedom" In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I talk about how states are effectively nullifying federal prohibition of industrial hemp by simply ignoring federal law, and legalizing cultivation and processing of the plant anyway. The federal ban on the cultivation of industrial hemp is as ridiculous as it is..
Read moreThoughts from Maharrey Head #58: The Anti-Commandeering Doctrine
"10 Minutes Closer to Freedom" In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I explain a legal principle known as the anti-commandeering doctrine that puts a Supreme Court stamp of approval on James Madison's blueprint to stop federal overreach through state non-cooperation. Last week, I talked about James Madison's blueprint to stop federal overreach, involving..
Read moreThoughts from Maharrey Head #57: Madison’s Blueprint to Stop the Feds
"10 Minutes Closer to Freedom" In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I explain James Madison's Blueprint for stopping overreaching federal power. What do we do when the federal government exceeds its authority? This was a question people asked even before the Constitution was ratified. It was a hotly debated topic. If the federal..
Read moreThoughts from Maharrey Head #56: The Great “One Nation” Debate
"10 Minutes Closer to Freedom" In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I explain that the United States aren't "one nation," that the Pledge of Allegiance is not an authoritative statement of American founding principles and why it matters. I created a firestorm when I published an article taking Hillary Clinton to task for..
Read moreThoughts from Maharrey Head #55: Is the Federal Government Supreme?
"10 Minutes Closer to Freedom" I this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I talk about the Constitution's supremacy clause. Whenever I talk about a state taking action to limit federal overreach, some political hack inevitably screams, "Supremacy Clause!" at me. Federal supremacists use this particular constitutional clause as a billy club to end all..
Read moreThoughts from Maharrey Head #54: What Is Necessary and Proper?
"10 Minutes Closer to Freedom" I this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I talk about the Constitution's necessary and proper clause. Hint: it doesn't mean anything and everything. Politicians and legal academics often call the necessary and proper clause the "elastic clause" because it supposedly expands the powers of the federal government. In fact,..
Read more