Write your Representative: Oppose HR-14 aka MAP-21

HR-14 titled "Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act," or "MAP 21," does at least two thing which are inimicable to a free society: Allows the IRS to administratively and unilaterally suspend a citizens passport and it creates a requirement for personal vehicles to be equipped with a ‘blackbox’ recorders by 2015. It has passed the Senate so Write your Representative immediately!

QUOTE OF THE DAY: Justice Scalia, "Can that possibly be the law?"

From today's Supreme Court oral argument on the Affordable Care Act regarding severability:

JUSTICE SCALIA: Mr. Kneedler, there are some provisions which nobody would have standing to challenge. If the provision is simply an expenditure of Federal money, it doesn't hurt anybody except the taxpayer, but the taxpayer doesn't have standing. That -- that just continues.

Even though it is -- it should -- it is so closely allied to what's been struck down that it ought to go as well. But nonetheless, that has to continue because there's nobody in the world that can challenge it.

Can that possibly be the law?

Unfortunately, Justice Scalia, under the current legal interpretation of "Standing," that is exactly what our law is today.

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