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No, drug use and prostitution are not federal matters. Both existed during the drafting of the Constitution. That they were not mentioned by the Framers is telling, and the 10th Amendment is explicit: If a power is not listed as belonging to the federal government, it doesn't, and falls to the St...

I think the legislature in Washington knew which way the wind was blowing. It takes a lot of guts, though, to do what she did and open up to her colleagues and those gathered to hear the debate proceedings, even if the vote was a foregone conclusion. Her remarks about the rights of the individual...

Irish independence is not just a cause for Irish Americans, but for all of us, to embrace. It is man's natural state to be free, and there are still some of us across the pond (particularly here in Texas) who remember it.

@DavyTom71 Texas was not "taken by force" from Mexico. Mexico invited settlers to tame the land, and after the government changed in Mexico City, the situation became untenable for Stephen F. Austin's pioneers. It was an unfortunate series of events that cost many lives on both sides, but I do no...