Well…the gun rights people are happy today after the Supreme court made it harder for states and cities to have their own restrictions on guns. Now, I’m a pretty liberal, progressive person but when it comes to the constitution, I sometimes have to side with the righties when they have an absolutist view of the rights that they hold dear. My big problem is that most people pick and choose the rights they want to defend having more than once heard these very same righties utter the phrase “if you don’t have anything to hide, you won’t mind having your home, car, or person searched” on the capricious authority of any police officer. You’ve heard me tell of the horror stories that come from this kind of power and of the gutting of what is the most important amendment in the bill of rights; the fourth.

So why can’t we agree that the entire constitution is important and needs defending by both the right and left? Where was the right when their darling boy GW made the biggest attack on the constitution and their rights in history? Geez…