Controlling The Interpretation Of The Constitution Is

Legalizing Abortion To Get Government Out Of The Bedroom Is Like Legalizing Cannibalism To Get Government Out Of The Kitchen.

It's A Real Enigma Why People Are So Averse To Real Free Market Capitalism Even Now. Here We Are, In The Century That Has Seen Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Pol Pot-and We're Still Being Warned Against The 'robber Barons' Of The 19th Century. I Don't Know That Jay Gould Or John D. Rockefeller Ever Killed Anyone. The State Has Killed Countless People, And Yet We're Always Supposed To Remain On Guard Against These 'greedy Villains' Of Yesteryear.

How Odd That Americans, And Not Just Their Presidents, Have Come To Think Of Their Constitution As Something Separable From The Government It's Supposed To Constitute. In Theory, It Should Be As Binding On Rulers As The Laws Of Physics Are On Engineers Who Design Bridges; In Practice, Its Axioms Have Become Mere Options. Of Course Engineers Don't Have To Take Oaths To Respect The Law Of Gravity; Reality Gives Them No Choice. Politics, As We See, Makes All Human Laws Optional For Politicians.

The Words Of Jesus, Including Those Jefferson And The Jesus Seminar Have Blue-pencilled, Have A Unique Permanence. They Don't Merely Survive As Aphoristic Wisdom; They Have An Authority In Our Hearts, Even When We Try To Deny Them. They Command. We Can Obey Or Rebel. That Is Why Jesus Is Still Not Only Loved But Hated - And Why Those Who Hate Him Feel They Have To Profess To Love Him.

Democracy Has Proved Only That The Best Way To Gain Power Over People Is To Assure The People That They Are Ruling Themselves. Once They Believe That, They Make Wonderfully Submissive Slaves.