flyingpylon wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2025 3:23 pm American Indians get their US citizenship via the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 instead of the US Constitution.

If provisions of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and the Constitution (as interpreted or amended) are in conflict, which one controls?

Here is an article offering legal support of the executive order. https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/birthright?e=f224a7b5b6 What was meant by the clause was that you had to be subject to no other sovereign. Senator Jacob Howard drafted the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Here is what he s...

I have a friend who is quite obviously Hispanic. He feels he's had fair warning, and now keeps a laminated color copy of his passport and birth certificate on him. Although we are both thinking the Federal Travel (REAL) ID standard that DMVs have rolled out with the gold star in the corner of the dr...

Earlier this week President Trump issued an Executive Order changing the official name of the mountain back to Mount McKinley. Both Alaska senators voiced objection. Should a decision about the name of a mountain or monument in a given state be left up to the citizens of that state to decide? What ...

He's a first term senator in his district. I think this might be his seminal bill
It took some spunk for him to put it out there

Earlier this week President Trump issued an Executive Order changing the official name of the mountain back to Mount McKinley.
Both Alaska senators voiced objection.

Should a decision about the name of a mountain or monument in a given state be left up to the citizens of that state to decide?

SENATE BILL NO. 2319 AN ACT TO ENACT THE CONTRACEPTION BEGINS AT ERECTION ACT; TO DEFINE TERMS; TO PROVIDE THAT IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR A PERSON TO DISCHARGE GENETIC MATERIAL WITHOUT THE INTENT TO FERTILIZE AN EMBRYO; TO PROVIDE FOR CRIMINAL PENALTIES; TO PROVIDE CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS; AND FOR RELATE...

This just in: SEATTLE, Jan 23 (Reuters) - A federal judge blocked Donald Trump's administration on Thursday from implementing the Republican president's executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional." h...

I wouldn't lose sleep over it. Ending birthright citizenship in any form would require a Constitutional amendment, which is pretty close to impossible at this time in history. To end it retroactively is even closer to impossible. Understood, but large parts of the Constitution are being ignored alr...

I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
Ending birthright citizenship in any form would require a Constitutional amendment, which is pretty close to impossible at this time in history.
To end it retroactively is even closer to impossible.

I am not overthinking. Proclaiming "Make America Great Again" is clearly saying that presently it is not and that there was this time period when it was. Why is no one able to define that time period? If anyone cannot then it's a typical empty political phrase just to appeal to the emotio...

What exactly is the Libertarian argument for why he was wrongly convicted and deserved to be pardoned?

This is a timely thread for me. I have been invested in a Permanent Portfolio since 2012. The only bucket in the portfolio that has accumulated consistent (unrealized capital) losses is the Treasury Bond component, especially stark since the stunning gains in gold over the past year. I have been won...

The original post referenced an article which in turn referenced a recent academic paper. For anyone interested enough to go into the weeds and read the 72 page paper, here is a link to it: https://tinyurl.com/bdfh5b9x You may have to click the button to open the pdf in your browser window or downlo...

Inflation is the next biggest threat, but as we also know Browne was mistaken in claiming that gold is an effective inflation hedge. I know this thread is primarily about LTT, but would you elaborate on why you are saying this? I was worried about the same, but looking at how gold has responded in ...

I caught a robotic permaban on Reddit for no particular reason. I just read it now. You have no idea what caused it? I have a friend who continually gets banned but then just comes right back in under another name. The other non-attractive feature for me regarding Reddit is that the communications ...

Also you're glossing over a nasty part of taxation: let's say you're right and the final sales price doesn't increase, but some percentage of manufacturers go out of business instead. Is that a win for society? I would argue it isn't. In the real world you'll get some of both: higher prices and few...

I disagree about the corporate tax rate: that should be 0%. Is your rationale for this the double taxation argument? If yes, it then conflicts with SCOTUS and Citizen's United where they deemed corporations to be "people" with all the rights thereto. FWIW, I disagree with SCOTUS and agree...

Biden too, right? Correct; for the first part of his term (117th Congress). Here is a good list of Presidencies that shows unified versus divided Congress. It's interesting - https://history.house.gov/Institution/Presidents-Coinciding/Party-Government/ LBJ had a unified Congress which maybe explain...

{ from the Meme thread } Let’s go with not-quite-a-landslide for Trump in 2024. But we need a word for what looks like a Republican trifecta now: the presidency, the senate and, I guess, the house of representatives. Unified party government? If the two congressional chambers are effectively subord...

flyingpylon wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 12:21 pm The election was not simply about Trump. The result will never make sense to anyone that continues to frame it that way.

Care to share your analysis?

Maybe it is like investing in a company based on the leader, despite unclear fundamentals. The detractor will point to the lack of fundamentals. The supporter points to their faith in the leader. For an early investor who believed in Steve Jobs, it was a good bet. For an early investor who believed ...

It was as obvious as it was awkward that Trump could not look at Harris. Ever. Every time Trump was talking, Harris turned and faced him, probably looked him right in the eye. Every time she talked, he looked straight ahead or down, never faced her. If he was triggered, he looked down or up and to h...

The problem is freeloading If everybody owes everybody then it all cancels out, right? The problem is that debt diverts a large share of actual economic output (goods and services) into passive income (interest paid). Disconnecting productivity from consumption is bad. Communism goes all in on it b...

Pointedstick wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:37 am

IMO only Canada offers a better deal when it comes to the "tax burden to services provided" ratio. Perks of being a neighboring global empire's protectorate, I think.

Japan says "hold my Sapporo"