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The BLM dispute in Nevada has prompted a Republican congressman to call for the defunding of “paramilitary units” attached to federal governmental agencies. As previously reported by Off The Grid News, the Bureau of Land Management standoff at the Bundy ranch in Bunkerville prompted a nationwide property rights and states’ rights debate. Representative Chris Stewart ...

The Bundy Ranch is back in full working order and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agents have left – for now. Thousands of folks from around the country converged upon Bunkerville, Nevada, to support Cliven Bundy, and millions watched the ...

A new California egg law is impacting farmers, and ultimately consumers, from other states. In fact, lawmakers in multiple states are claiming that the egg law is interfering with interstate commerce. Opponents of the new law feel that California’s animal ...

Written by Doug Tjaden and republished with permission. Throughout his political career, Barack Obama has intentionally modeled himself after President Abraham Lincoln. He uses a similar style of rhetoric, and has gone so far as to adopt some of Lincoln’s ...

Montana gunmakers want the federal government to “butt out” of gun sales which take place within the state, and they’ve sued the US Justice Department in an attempt to do just that. The lawsuit filed by the Montana Shooting Sports ...

Climate change may not be among the pressing issues on your mind, but perhaps it should be. The task force created when President Obama signed his most recent executive order could eventually have control over where, when and how you ...

The Texas National Guard says it will deny benefits for same-sex spouses, despite the Pentagon’s position on the subject. The decision is based firmly on a states’ rights argument. In Texas, the state constitution defines marriage as a union of ...

A Missouri gun bill will test so-called nullification theories. The Republican-controlled state legislature is expected to easily pass a bill which would nullify all federal gun laws in Missouri. Under the proposed law, a Missouri citizen arrested under federal gun ...

The United States Department of Defense (DOD) is reportedly worried about “extremists” who dare to exercise their First Amendment rights and who advocate for “individual liberties, states’ rights” and ways to make the world a “better place” to live. Judicial ...

The Department of Justice is suing Louisiana in order to halt a school voucher program which was set up to aid poor and minority students. The federal agency is attempting to block 34 Louisiana school districts from offering private school ...