https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/12/14/bill-of-rights-born-from-the-fight-over-delegated-and-reserved-powers/
Federalists insisted a Bill of Rights was unnecessary, even dangerous. The Constituti... View Morehttps://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/12/14/bill-of-rights-born-from-the-fight-over-delegated-and-reserved-powers/
Federalists insisted a Bill of Rights was unnecessary, even dangerous. The Constitution, they argued, was already designed to limit federal power to those delegated, and nothing more. Anti-Federalists shot back with a dark reality: government always assumes it can do whatever you haven’t explicitly forbidden.
That fight got settled with a deal. And the deal’s centerpiece – the answer that saved ratification – was the Tenth Amendment. Understanding this forgotten debate reveals how the entire Constitution was designed to work.
Bill of Rights: Born From the Fight Over Delegated and Reserved Powers | Tenth Amendment Center
That fight got settled with a deal. And the deal's centerpiece - the answer that saved ratification - was the Tenth Amendment. Understanding this forgotten debate reveals how the entire Constitution w
From the start, the main idea was clear: Whatever the nation’s faults in practice, the point of life was to live it, freely, not dependent on government. Indeed, to address anti-Federalists’ fears tha... View MoreFrom the start, the main idea was clear: Whatever the nation’s faults in practice, the point of life was to live it, freely, not dependent on government. Indeed, to address anti-Federalists’ fears that the new national government would be too powerful, Federalists detailed the Constitution’s exquisitely precise limits on federal power. The first big break was when state sovereignty was short-circuited in 1861, so was individual authority and individual liberty. Since that time, we have lived as subjects to a centralized oligarchy, allowed privileges purely and only at the benevolence of that oligarchy. The republic, at that point, existed no more. These United States became The Empire of the United States wholly run and controlled by a city-state, Washington, D.C. At that point, that central government was unauthorized, illegitimate and, inasmuch, unlawful. Then came the social engineers of the Progressive Era, steeped in visions of the “public good,” came finally to power under Franklin Roosevelt. When the “nine old men” on the court balked, saying the Constitution prohibited FDR’s schemes, the president threatened to pack the court with six new members. The court got the message and folded. Another watershed moment came in 1942 when the court interpreted the Commerce Clause as giving Congress virtually unlimited authority over economic activity.
Ken LaRive
Dec 7, 2025
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Let me spell out the insanity we’re living through… because the hypocrisy is wild..
🚨Fraud isn’t the exception anymore …it’s the business model.... View MoreKen LaRive
Dec 7, 2025
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Let me spell out the insanity we’re living through… because the hypocrisy is wild..
🚨Fraud isn’t the exception anymore …it’s the business model.
While fraud explodes across every major government program …Obamacare, SNAP, Medicaid, unemployment, student loans …the political class acts like everything is fine… as long as their side stays in power…
And for those who need receipts.. here it is:
REAL, VERIFIED FRAUD EXAMPLES IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW..
1️⃣ Obamacare Subsidy Fraud (Confirmed by the Inspector General)
A government watchdog created fake identities ..and 90% were approved for subsidies without proper documentation.
Some applications used dead people’s Social Security numbers, and the system still paid out.
(Source: HHS Office of Inspector General, 2024)
2️⃣ COVID Relief Fraud …the biggest in U.S. history
More than $200 billion in pandemic aid was stolen or paid improperly through PPP, unemployment programs, and relief grants.
Criminal rings, fake businesses, inmate scams the works.
(Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2023)
3️⃣ SNAP / EBT Retail Fraud
The USDA confirmed historic levels of trafficking, with some stores exchanging benefits for cash at up to 90 cents on the dollar.
(Source: USDA Office of Inspector General, 2022–2024)
4️⃣ Student Loan Fraud
Federal investigators found billions in Pell Grants and student aid paid out to “ghost students,” fake enrollment rings, and identity-theft applicants.
(Source: Department of Education OIG, multiple reports 2020–2024)
5️⃣ Medicare & Medicaid Fraud
A Justice Department sweep uncovered over $2.7 billion in fraudulent claims, including fake medical equipment billing and prescription schemes.
(Source: DOJ Health Care Fraud Unit, 2023)
This is the backdrop.
This is the country Trump walked back into..
Trump spent four years being hunted by the same people now pretending to care about “norms.”
He was impeached, surveilled, investigated, and lied about nonstop …and he still never pardoned himself, never fled the country, never hid behind lawyers, and never once asked for special treatment…
Then Biden waddles in, and suddenly corruption becomes rampant…
His family used “public service” like a punch card to foreign governments…
Millions from China. Millions from Ukraine.
Influence peddling dressed up as diplomacy…
And when things started closing in?
He didn’t fight it …he pardoned his entire family…
But nothing to see here right?
But mention that, and the media goes silent like someone unplugged the teleprompter…
Meanwhile, the same DOJ that shrugged at Biden’s scandals threw every charge imaginable at Trump …tax cases, document cases, speech cases, fantasy cases …anything to kneecap the one person they couldn’t control….
Is anybody even talking about Epstein files anymore?
That magically disappeared from every news outlet recently.. interesting.
They tried to bankrupt him.
They tried to jail him.
They tried to destroy him publicly.
And now that he’s back in the Oval office… stronger than ever …they’re panicking because he’s using a power every president before him has used… including Biden, who pardoned his family on the way out the door…
Spare me the outrage..
You don’t get to weaponize the government for four years and then cry “authoritarian!” the moment the tables turn…
And the American people are done being gaslit by a ruling class that can’t control its own corruption…
Faith. Family. Freedom.
And the courage to call out corruption ..no matter who it offends.
https://gizmodo.com/get-ready-for-a-puke-filled-winter-norovirus-is-back-with-a-vengeance-2000692066
Given all that, it’s always prudent to do what you can to reduce your risk of catching and spreadin... View Morehttps://gizmodo.com/get-ready-for-a-puke-filled-winter-norovirus-is-back-with-a-vengeance-2000692066
Given all that, it’s always prudent to do what you can to reduce your risk of catching and spreading the stomach flu to others.
You should always wash fruits and vegetables and cook your shellfish thoroughly, for instance. You should also clean your kitchen utensils, cutting boards, and surfaces, especially after preparing shellfish. And you should thoroughly wash your hands after handling uncooked food, since norovirus or other foodborne germs could be transmitted by your hands inadvertently touching your mouth later.
Get Ready for a Puke-Filled Winter: Norovirus Is Back With a Vengeance
CDC data indicates that norovirus is back on the warpath and getting plenty of Americans sick.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/18/democrats-squirm-amid-mounting-evidence-partys-epstein-connections/#insticator-commenting
Emails show that, in addition to Mr. Jeffries, other prominen... View Morehttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/18/democrats-squirm-amid-mounting-evidence-partys-epstein-connections/#insticator-commenting
Emails show that, in addition to Mr. Jeffries, other prominent Democrats remained in close contact with Epstein long after his 2008 conviction on soliciting prostitution from a minor. They include Obama administration economic adviser Lawrence H. Summers, Democratic donor Reid Hoffman and Ms. Plaskett.
Rather than addressing questions about their own involvement, Democrats criticized Republicans for exposing their party’s connection to Epstein.
The 2013 email sought to arrange a meeting between Mr. Jeffries and Epstein, who by then was not only a convicted sex offender but also was facing lawsuits from women who said he had victimized them beginning when they were minors.
Chet McAteer
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Envy Is the Only Socialist Resource That’s Truly Renewable – And They’re Drilling for It 24/7
It is, in my mind, an odd construction, the modern push for equality of outcome—rather tha... View MoreChet McAteer
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Envy Is the Only Socialist Resource That’s Truly Renewable – And They’re Drilling for It 24/7
It is, in my mind, an odd construction, the modern push for equality of outcome—rather than mere equality of opportunity—quietly installs envy as the central organizing emotion of society.
By promising that everyone must end up with roughly the same income, status, housing, and prestige regardless of talent, effort, risk-taking, or luck, the doctrine creates an endless, institutionalized comparison game.
People are no longer judged by their own progress or by any objective standard; they are judged only against the most visible successes of others.
When the promised sameness inevitably fails to appear—because human beings are not interchangeable widgets—the gap between expectation and reality is experienced not as a call to greater personal effort, but as a cosmic injustice. That feeling is envy, raw and scalding, now elevated from a private vice into a public virtue and a political right.
Socialism has no rational cure for this envy because its entire project depends on feeding it.
The moment you concede that no one may legitimately have more than anyone else unless that surplus is seized and redistributed, you guarantee that every yacht, every private jet, every beautiful house, and every lucrative career will be experienced by millions as a personal theft from themselves.
The Socialist does not solve envy; he weaponizes it.
He needs the doctor to resent the patient who can afford better care, the renter to resent the landlord who owns the building, the barista to resent the tech founder who buys the $7 latte without looking at the price. Without that burning sense of unfairness, the case for mass expropriation collapses. Envy is therefore not an unfortunate side effect of the system—it is the fuel.
Worse still, Socialism has no off switch. Even after the revolution, after the factories are nationalized and the billionaires exiled, the new hierarchy of party officials, bureaucrats, and connected insiders immediately appears.
The old envy simply transfers its target: now it rages against the commissar with the dacha, the apparatchik’s child at the better school, the general secretary’s mistress with the imported perfume.
Every Socialist society in history has reproduced inequality within months; the only difference is that the new inequalities are unearned by market performance and undefended by law, making them even more galling. The envy intensifies, the purges begin, and the cycle repeats.
Capitalism, for all its flaws, at least offers a partial antidote: the possibility that tomorrow you might be the one on top, or at least richer than you were yesterday. It channels ambition outward and upward. Socialism, by contrast, locks ambition in a cage of mutual resentment where the only relief is pulling others down.
That is why the Socialist never runs out of villains; the moment one class of “exploiters” is liquidated, a new one must be discovered to keep the envy alive and the revolution justified.
In the end, the Socialist project is doomed to drown in the very passion it cultivates. It mistakes a deadly sin for a theory of justice, then wonders why its societies disintegrate into suspicion, denunciation, and despair.
Envy cannot be satisfied by any redistribution scheme man has ever devised, because its essence is not wanting what others have—it is wanting others not to have it...
Until that emotional truth is faced, every new five-year plan, every new ministry of equity, every new “tax the rich” slogan will only pour gasoline on the fire it claims to extinguish.
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