by Rhett | Sep 25, 2017 | News
MADRID (AP) — Barring an unexpected development, Spanish and Catalan authorities are headed for a head-on clash Sunday, when the regional government vows to stage a binding referendum on separating from Spain. The Spanish government insists the referendum is illegal...
by Rhett | Sep 25, 2017 | News
Spain’s plan to send boatloads of military police to Catalonia to prevent its independence referendum has backfired with dockers in two ports staging a boycott and a third refusing access. The Express writes Police boats Blocked by Catalan ports as unrest threatens to...
by Rhett | Sep 25, 2017 | News
Spain found itself on the verge of a full-blown sovereign crisis on Saturday, after the “rebel region” of Catalonia rejected giving more control to the central government in defiance of authorities in Madrid who are trying to suppress an independence...
by Rhett | Sep 25, 2017 | News
From Zerohedge: Following the confiscation of millions of ballots in recent days, and the Spanish governments’ pressure on local mayors to deter the October 1st independence referendum, AP reports that the grassroots groups driving Catalonia’s separatist...
by Rhett | Sep 25, 2017 | Ideas
At the Virginia ratifying convention, Edmund Randolph said that reading the general welfare clause as a broad grant of power would “violate every rule of construction and common sense.”
