I Call The Present System 'post-constitutional America.'

So When The Wolf Pounces On Your Lamb, Just Ignore The Pitiful Bleating And Remind Yourself That This Is A Democracy, Where Every Sheep Can Freely Express Its Preference For Which Kind Of Wolf It Wants To Be Eaten By. Many Sheep, Perhaps Understandably, Prefer A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing, Which Is After All The Basic Idea Of Democracy. So Far It Has Worked Pretty Well. The Wolves All Agree On That, And They Want To Spread Democracy Everywhere.

It's I Politics That Men Are Always Aggravating The Hopeless Tangle Of Their Laws, Obscuring The Simplest Principles And Making A Mockery Of Liberty.

Democracy Has Proved Only That The Best Way To Gain Power Over People Is To Assure The People That They Are Ruling Themselves. Once They Believe That, They Make Wonderfully Submissive Slaves.

In A Few More Days We Will Celebrate Xmas, The Day We Commemorate The Birth Of You-know-who. ...it Seems The Modern Consensus Of Enlightened People That His Name Should Be Used In Polite Society Only When Cursing.... [p]oliticians Are Often Eager To Associate Themselves Personally With You-know-who, Even -- And Especially -- When They Rather Flagrantly Ignore His Injunctions.... He Was Out Of Step Then, And He Is Out Of Step Now. He Is Eternally Out Of Step, And Eternally More Powerful Than Those Who Keep In Step. You Know Who I Mean.

The Second Amendment, Like The Rest Of The Bill Of Rights, Was Meant To Inhibit Only The Federal Government, Not The States. The Framers, As The Federalist Papers Attest (see No. 28), Saw The State Militias As Forces That Might Be Summoned Into Action Against The Federal Government Itself, If It Became Tyrannical.