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.

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