A Law Can Be Both Economic Folly

[the Freedom Of Information Act Is] The Taj Mahal Of The Doctrine Of Unanticipated Consequences, The Sistine Chapel Of Cost-benefit Analysis Ignored.

You Can't Come In Smugly And With Great Self Satisfaction And Say 'oh It's Torture, And Therefore It's No Good.' Is It Really So Easy To Determine That Smacking Someone In The Face To Determine Where He Has Hidden The Bomb That Is About To Blow Up Los Angeles Is Prohibited In The Constitution? It Would Be Absurd To Say You Couldn't Do That. And Once You Acknowledge That, We're Into A Different Game.

Who Ever Thought That Intimacy And Spirituality [whatever That Means] Were Freedoms? And If Intimacy Is, One Would Think Freedom Of Intimacy Is Abridged Rather Than Expanded By Marriage. Ask The Nearest Hippie.

On This Day, When We're Celebrating Our Constitutional Heritage, I Urge You To Be Faithful To That Heritage - To Impose On Our Fellow Citizens Only The Restrictions That Are There In The Constitution, Not Invent New Ones, Not To Invent The Right Because It's A Good Idea.

It Is A Constitution That Morphs While You Look At It Like Plasticman.... That Is Contrary To Our Whole Tradition, To In God We Trust On The Coins, To Thanksgiving Proclamations, To (congressional) Chaplains, To Tax Exemption For Places Of Worship, Which Has Always Existed In America.