Commentary

Red State Revolution

By Troy Senik
Thursday, February 21 2013

Liberals, who spent the Bush years exalting themselves as the defenders of science and sweet reason, have a bit of a problem on their hands. These paragons of logic, who will supposedly go wherever the evidence takes them, are currently having their most fundamental beliefs in the proper role of government disproved in a nationwide experiment. The name of this experiment: federalism. Under the terms of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, all powers not explicitly granted to the federal government are retained by either the states or the people. Now, granted, this principle – like virtually…

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