As usual, the best stuff out there is written by someone other than yours truly.
First, Stephen Green has A Few Notes On Tyranny
We’re about to get a new Supreme Court justice who never knows when to say no to executive power. With Sam Alito comes the usual heavy breathing on the left, and a couple peeps of protest from the right. Me, I’m maintaining a smiling detachment about the whole affair. Alito is a worse judge than I hoped for, but probably a better one than most of us had any right to expect. I say this because the last thing I fear in this country is the dictatorship which Alito’s detractors say he represents.
What is it that Steve is most worried about ? Click on over and find out.
After you’re done there, go check out Peggy Noonan’s latest column about the Alito nomination.
If everyone in America–the butcher down the block, the college professor, the car mechanic, the mother of two working at home, the CNN analyst–knows that the U.S. senators questioning Sam Alito are posing, are using their airtime to promote themselves and play to their base, then will anyone in America be impressed by what the senators say, or how they pose? Isn’t that like saying, “I know it’s all spin, but he spun me like a top!” ?
Read the whole thing.
