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It’s nice as American citizens to get a piece of good news about our country every once in awhile, and especially in the midst of so much bad. I bring such news, although it’s selective in its goodness. It’s not good to those of us who, like the First Lady, are just now proud of our country for the first time in our adult lives. Neither will it sound all that great to those who love America because of what she COULD be, or what her government is becoming. No, this news is good to those of us who have always loved America because of the rights and liberties she bestows upon her citizens, because of her inherent ability and natural willingness to correct her mistakes, and for her faith in her people to rely upon their own ingenuities rather than upon those of a cabal of tyrants or lifetime politicians who will always connive to serve their own interests. This is news of a resurrection, or perhaps resuscitation would be a better word (didn’t mean to scare ya). Many of us thought the thing dead. It may have indeed been on life support for awhile, but it never flat-lined; and owing to a powerful dose of rampant liberalism, the 10^th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America has been revived—and it’s coming to life with an I’ve-had-all-I-can-stands-and-I-can’t-stands-no-more vengeance.

In case you didn’t know, the 10^th Amendment comprises the last paragraph of the Bill of Rights, and here’s what it says in its one, tight, lucid sentence: “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.” Those States and those people are now calling upon the Fighting 10^th like surrounded ground forces calling for air strikes. And we have the Obama administration, their congressional cohorts, and their snickering statist overreach to thank for it.

In evidence, let us first offer a grin and a nod to the state of Montana for stepping to the forefront last year with the Firearms Freedom Act. Of course there’s a lawsuit pending, but as it stands, firearms and ammunition manufactured and used strictly in Montana are no longer subject to federal regulation. This law was so popular that six other states have since instituted similar laws, and twenty-four more have either introduced or intend to introduce their own versions. But the heftiest, shiniest Firearms Freedom Act award has to go to Wyoming. The law in the Cowboy State specifically enumerates fines and imprisonment for federal employees (ATF agents) who attempt to impose federal firearms regulations on Wyoming gun owners. Can you read that without laughing? I can’t. (I mean in a proud-of-you-guys way, with accompanying mental imagery.) And do you think, for one minute, that this is all coincidence—that this was going to happen just as quickly whether Obama were president or not? I can laugh just so hard before I have to breathe. The 10^th Amendment is being dusted off and passed around in the American court system like a mirror and razor blade at a political-brainstorming session in Chicago, and that’s because our president has long since tipped his hand. Nor is the reaction to Saul Alinsky’s White House limited to gun rights legislation.

I say there should be a special 10^th Amendment Award for Uncommon Foresight created just for the state of Oklahoma. This November, Oklahomans will line up at the polls in droves not only to vote for pro-Constitution candidates, but to guarantee that Sharia law will never infect their courts. While the rest of the country whistles past the graveyard on this issue, Oklahoma has been focusing with a keen eye on European society and its recent and rapid transformation from Dar al Harb (House of War) to Dar al Islam (House of Submission). They’ve also kept up with the disturbing goings on in American cities like Dearborn and Minneapolis. Sharia doesn’t recede—ever. It metastasizes, and Oklahomans know it. You can tell they’re on to something when the terrorist-associated Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) trips over itself to set upon the state with its screeching chorus of whatever-o-phobia and legal action in response to this prescient legislation. Too bad for CAIR, Oklahoma doesn’t care. No Sharia there, mon frère. Hats off to the Sooner bunch for recognizing the trend—and for grasping that their current president would be the last to get in the way of the spread of this 8th-century desert jurisprudence and its assumption of inherent superiority.

If you were among those who thought the 10^th Amendment was lying dismembered in a plastic bag in the attic and forgotten, the aftermath of that shady House Obamacare vote alone should’ve changed your thinking, at least a little. That antagonistic piece of dung-work has met with a 10^th Amendment backlash that few of the proponents of nationalization could have anticipated, what with their Harvard educations clouding their minds, and we should all be refrigerator-magnet proud. Louisiana was the first to opt out of Obamacare’s abortion mandate, and kudos to the Bayou State for that—and for the domino effect that it touched off, as several other states have since joined in. Virginia deserves a standing-o for being the first to file suit against the individual health care mandate, which fines or imprisons American citizens for not having health insurance. (Yes, that’s how the government of a free society guarantees health care for everybody.) Thirty-five other states have filed formal resolutions opposing the individual mandate, making a total of thirty-six states out of fifty to take action against the menace of DMV-style doctoring. The only states to lie back and take it pretty much all sit in the foreign-ish Northeast. I don’t suppose they call it New England for nothing.

Maybe you’re old enough to remember Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders, and that 70s hit of his, “Arizona.” Well, Arizona needs a good theme song. They deserve it. What other state has endured so much hostility and violence just because it had the audacity to propose a means—a perfectly benign and reasonable means—of curtailing an unsustainable rise in hostility and violence? The folks in D.C. whose job it was to take care of that sort of thing refused to do it—after ignoring repeated importunities—so the governor and the people stepped up. Simple as that. And now, the federal government that has been tasked by the Constitution with protecting that wonderful state is instead attacking it. And viciously. But Arizonans won’t be threatened by the Obama administration’s frothing legal jackals any more than Oklahomans will be threatened by CAIR’s. Not only will they refuse to bend, but they’re even ratcheting it up a notch. The lawsuits against them will pile ever higher, but Arizonans have also decided they will no longer allow their children to be indoctrinated by a public school curriculum that fabricates history in order to demonize and debase America. They will no longer allow precious young minds to be twisted by teachers who preach violent revolution. This is what has been going on—the perpetraitors (intentional) being the same La Raza myrmidons who insist that Arizona belongs to Mexico and that her borders be eliminated—but Arizona can stop it. The Constitution says so right at the end of the Bill of Rights.

If there were a 10^th Amendment-Revival Award to give to a deserving state, Arizona would certainly be on the short list. But there is one other state that might just beat it; not for standing up like martyrs against unholy forces—Arizona gets that one hands down—but for its initiative in protecting its people. Imagine if there were a state that had already implemented immigration laws that were even stricter than Arizona’s SB1070, but had done so quietly, without calling any unnecessary attention upon itself. Imagine a state that had the chutzpah to outlaw sanctuary cities within its borders. A refreshing thought, no? I’m referring to the state that put Obamacare to a vote of the people and the people shot it down from its smug altitude like a fleet of floundering Nazi warplanes over 1945 Berlin—in a 3-to-1 bloodbath—and set a flurry of Obamacare referenda into motion around the country. In these areas, Missouri has taken a giant lead.

In the Show-Me state, where voters are about to send Democrat congressman Ike Skelton the way of the horse and buggy he rode into Washington on, highway troopers and certain local officers can and will arrest anyone whom they determine is an illegal. Many of them have trained with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, and are certified to begin deportation proceedings before ICE personnel arrive to take custody of the perp. Missouri police officers have access to a federal immigration database, and are required to verify within 48 hours the immigration status of any detainee who fails to produce documentation, and contact ICE accordingly. They are also authorized to direct federal officials to suspected illegals in county jails and state prisons. Illegals are prohibited in Missouri from obtaining driver’s licenses and from receiving any welfare benefits. That’s right; Missouri’s citizens are required, by state law, to support zero percentage of another country’s population. All commercial driving tests are administered in English only; applicants must—and what a novel, racist concept this is—perfectly understand road signage. In the Missouri court system, there now exists a presumption that a person who can reasonably be believed to be an illegal immigrant will not likely appear in court, and this is taken into consideration when a judge is weighing bail. Contractors who do business with the state, or who receive tax credits, must use the E-Verify system to determine the legal status of their employees. If caught hiring illegals, they lose the contract and a hunk of cash to boot. It’s not the jail time they deserve, but it’s a start.

Missouri—and this may surprise certain Democrat politicians—is not a border state, so it doesn’t share Arizona’s brand of misery. But credit has to be given it for not wanting to incur any level of that unnecessary burden in all its unsavory manifestations, and for heading it off in an astute fashion. The lawsuits are sure to come to the state—especially when Obamacare forces its burden upon the rest of the country—but illegals will think twice before THEY do.

Anyway, the Obama administration will be busy suing just about every other state in the union at the same time (the exception being that handful of blue ones up in the right-hand corner). This is because the 10^th Amendment is alive and well. It will be challenged, it will be attacked, it will be forced through the ordeal like a medieval heretic, but it will survive. The Alinsky scholars in charge have ignored the Constitutional boundaries of their power no less than they’ve ignored the Constitutional boundaries of America’s geography, and we the people, behind our forward-thinking state officials, have had all we can stands. The 10^th is our can of spinach, and state by state, we’re squeezing it open. There is a difference between loving one’s country and loving one’s government, and that’s why we were given the 10th Amendment. To it, we say, welcome back.