As the 2016 presidential nomination approaches, we ought to recall the single most important issue in preserving our liberties and saving our nation: restoring federalism.  Coerced sameness is the nectar of totalitarianism; regional variety is the lifeblood of liberty.  Those evil regimes of the last century invariably destroyed the rights of local governments.  Nazis began almost immediately to completely destroy state governments, which in Weimar Germany had been very robust, and books about Nazi Germany at the time noted that this was the single most important change in government under the Nazis.  The Soviets made Moscow the center of everything and crushed the independence of the myriad Soviet Socialist Republics.  Our American Republic was created by sovereign states who conditionally relinquished some powers to the new federal government so that it could do those few things that it could do better than states.  No one thought that the federal...(Read Full Article)