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Our First Amendment Expresses A Far Different Calculus For Regulating Speech Than For Regulating Nonexpressive Conduct And That Is As It Should Be. The Right To Swing Your Fist Should End At The Tip Of My Nose, But Your Right To Express Your Ideas Should Not Necessarily End At The Lobes Of My Ears.

The Threat Of Mutually Assured Destruction Worked For The United States During The Cold War Because It Had Proved Its Willingness To Drop Nuclear Bombs On Enemy Cities At The End Of World War Ii. It Might Work Less Well For Israel, Because The Israeli Air Force Has Never Deliberately Targeted A Large Civilian Population Center, And Its Leaders Have Said Its Morality Would Not Permit It Do So.

It's A New Phenomenon In America That States Can Now Sue The National Government And Become A Kind Of Check And Balance On The Excesses Of The Federal Government.

The Judge Also Has A Truth He Wants To Hide: He Often Hasn't Been Completely Candid In Describing The Facts Or The Law.

I Feel Like My 50 Years At Harvard Were An Interlude. I'm Really A New Yorker.