Liberal legal commentator Edward Lazarus, author of the well-written Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court, has a column out entitled href="http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20060202.html">The Liberty-Security Tradeoff: Virtually Everyone Accepts that Liberty Should At Times Be Sacrificed for Security, So Why Won't Progressives Propose How and When?. The piece--by its title alone--perhaps unintentionally shows that there is no difference in principle between the Republicans and Democrats. No wonder the left can't mount a principled opposition to war or the state's intrusiveness. They are not opposed to it in principle.
