The Political Right has so many self-inflicted constraints it can be surprising that it ever gets to wield or keep any power at all. The so-called leadership wants to be courted by the Washington media and dinner party circuit such that it will do anything to avoid their rejection. They think the game is still the same, where the old rules apply an...

The exact language of the Tenth Amendment bears repeating: "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." Our federal congressmen and senators are often referred to as leaders, and this is a mistake. They are representatives of their...