Worth reading -- Charles Krauthammer. Snippet:
I once worked in government. On my first day, I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution. I thought I knew what that meant. Recently we have gone to war in Afghanistan, Iraq and a few other places, at least in part to advance democracy and promote our kind of constitutionalism. A foreigner might then ask: What exactly is your Constitution? Now we know the answer. The Constitution is whatever Sandra Day O'Connor says it is. On any given Monday. That modifier is crucial, because she does change her mind, and when she does, so does the Constitution. Seventeen years ago, she ruled anti-sodomy laws constitutional. Now she thinks otherwise ...Posted by Greg Ransom