Liberalism's Fatal Flaw,... Is That It Has

A Belief In Moral Absolutes Should Always Make Us More, Not Less, Critical Of Both Sides In Any Conflict. This Doesn't Mean That Both Sides Are Equally Wrong; It Means That Since We All Fall Short Of Moral Perfection, Even The Side Whose Cause Is Truly Righteous May Commit Terrible Acts Of Violence In Defense Of That Cause -- And, Worse, May Feel Quite Justified In Committing Them. That Is The Difference Between Being Righteous And Being Self-righteous. Moral Standards Are Absolute; But Human Fidelity To Them Is Always Relative.

Can The Real Constitution Be Restored? Probably Not. Too Many Americans Depend On Government Money Under Programs The Constitution Doesn't Authorize, And Money Talks With An Eloquence Shakespeare Could Only Envy. Ignorant People Don't Understand The Federalist Papers, But They Understand Government Checks With Their Names On Them.

The Most Successful Revolutions Aren't Those That Are Celebrated With Parades And Banners, Drums And Trumpets, Cannons And Fireworks. The Really Successful Revolutions Are Those That Occur Quietly, Unnoticed, Uncommemorated. We Don't Celebrate The Day The United States Constitution Was Destroyed; It Didn't Happen On A Specific Date, And Most Americans Still Don't Realize It Happened At All. We Don't Say The Constitution Has Ceased To Exist; We Merely Say That It's A 'living Document.' But It Amounts To The Same Thing.

A Christian Can Believe That God 'ordained' The 'powers That Be' - Including Political Rulers And Slaveholders - For Purposes Too Deep For Us To Understand Fully, And That While They Last We Must Provisionally Accept Them; But That They Were Not Meant To Last Forever.

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.