“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Last week the Rooney-Blansten amendment requiring the federal Common Core curriculum to devote equal time to Republican presidents was narrowly defeated in the U.S. Senate, despite a RealClearPolitics poll showing 87.8921% of the public supported the idea. I’m a...
I was several blocks away at a bar when the bombs exploded, having finished my fourth Boston Marathon about an hour earlier. I was fatigued but enjoying the table fellowship of my fellow runners, telling stories, drinking Guinness and thinking all was right in the...
Last week Pennsylvania State Senator Daylin Leach introduced Senate Bill No. 528, known as the “Regulate Marijuana Act,” which decriminalizes the sale and use of marijuana for persons 21 years of age and older. Citing the efficient use of law enforcement resources,...
Among the many Fs the federal government earns for constitutional fidelity, a failing grade is conspicuously assigned to its Department of Education. I doubt even the most jaded federal supremacist can avoid the twinge of guilt for flambéing the 10th Amendment through...
Memo: HOUSE BILL 357, RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS PROTECTION ACT TO: PENNSYLVANIA VOTERS FROM: BENJAMIN GROSS, LEGAL DIRECTOR, PENNSYLVANIA TENTH AMENDMENT CENTER DATE: MARCH 1, 2013 SUBJECT: HOUSE BILL 357, RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS PROTECTION ACT In mid-January, State...
