If Florida and Georgia want to engage in a trade of oranges for cotton, the Commerce Clause applies. If Bill in Florida wants to trade oranges for Ted in Georgia’s cotton, the Congress is not permitted anywhere near this transaction.

Of course, I agree with Franklin, it would be best to completely pull the Clause entirely and rewrite an amendment specifically banning Congress and individual States from any form of regulation.

“3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; but neither this, nor any other clause contained in the Constitution, shall ever be construed to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce; except for the purpose of furnishing lights, beacons, and buoys, and other aids to navigation upon the coasts, and the improvement of harbors and the removing of obstructions in river navigation; in all which cases such duties shall be laid on the navigation facilitated thereby as may be necessary to pay the costs and expenses thereof.”

I guess it’s time to get a new moniker.

Until the interstate commerce clause is stricken from the Constitution, there is little hope for turning, or ever even stemming, the tide.

I am, in part, flattered that some random loser has decided to impersonate me, but if you are going to do so, please bring your grammar, syntax, punctuation and vocabulary up to at least middle-school standards, and, above all, try to say something interesting.

Right era, wrong country. I think Germany is more up Bollinger’s alley.

“…and foreign bureaus have been decimated… My best estimate is that there are presently only a few dozen full-time foreign correspondents from the U.S. covering all of China, despite the critical importance of that nation to our future.”

Americans are getting plenty of the information they need, and want. What’s becoming less popular is tripe from the mouth of someone like Bollinger and until the old dogs of “mainstream media” figure that out, they’ll continue to wither away into irrelevancy.

As for foreign bureaus supposedly being “decimated”, one could look upon that as an empire in decline. But there is plenty of good reporting on China on the Internet, just not necessarily from CBS, PBS, Fox, etc.

PBS news, or so-called “public broadcasting”, is nothing but an endless rotation of politicians, bureaucrats, partisan hacks, and the talking heads that apologize for them… come to think of it, the MSM isn’t much different… and Bollinger thinks taxpayers should pay for that? And he writes this during a depression and when government debt is beyond control? Bollinger should retire, think about his wasted life, and then fall on his sword.