The Tenth Amendment Is Not A Treaty Violation

by Jacob Sullum.           After Carol Anne Bond discovered that her husband had impregnated her best friend, the Pennsylvania microbiologist took revenge by spreading toxic chemicals on her ex-friend's car door, mailbox, and door knob. The poisonous prank was mostly ineffectual, inflicting nothing worse than a minor thumb burn. Bond's    ... MORE

Steve Stockman: Treaties Don't Trump The Constitution

Will the High Court overrule the Constitution?           Can the President and Senate invest the federal government with new powers not enumerated in the U.S. Constitution simply by signing and ratifying a treaty?  Can the treaty power be used to override the Tenth Amendment and render it a dead letter?  Those issues will be argued before   ... MORE

Bob Barr: The U.N. Comes After America's Guns

A gun control treaty to destroy the 2nd Amendment.      The true scope of the anti-firearm crusade of the United Nations, which began more than a dozen years ago, finally is coming into clear focus, as the White House readies to sign the Arms Trade Treaty adopted with U.S. support this past April by the U.N. General Assembly. The reach  ... MORE

GUN OWNERS: Don't Let Obama Sign UN Arms Trade Treaty

by Katie Kieffer.        Your guns are in danger. Obama has stopped defending the Second Amendment. He did not get his gun control agenda passed in the Senate. So, he’s unconstitutionally trying to use the United Nations to control your guns. Don’t let him. Obama is getting dangerously close to signing the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. If he    ... MORE

U.N. Pushes Efforts To Force Pot Criminalization In U.S.

Just how sovereign are we?     A United Nations-based drug agency urged the United States government on Tuesday to challenge the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in Colorado and Washington, saying the state laws violate international drug treaties. The International Narcotics Control Board made its appeal in an annual drug report. ... MORE

Jennifer Alexander: Why The Feds Won't Reschedule Pot

International treaty trumps national self-interest.   Activists have been working for years to reform state and local marijuana laws throughout the nation through decriminalization, implementation of medical marijuana laws and, most recently, attempts at legalizing marijuana. Many opponents, and even some activists, argue      ... MORE