Happy Bill of Rights Day

I can not let this day slip off the calendar without noting that today has been ordained by the congress to be National Bill of Rights Day. Remember, the Constitution of the United States of America was written in 1787, but ratification was not until two years later, after the addition of the ten enumerated rights we know as the Bill of Rights. The states would not budge until those basic rights were added to the new Constitution.

This year as we celebrate Bill of Rights Day we live in a nation divided, where some among us would give away those enumerated rights for a false sense of security in an uncertain world. On the other side are those of us with a Libertarian streak and a commitment to the Constitution in general and the Bill of Rights in particular and we will never willingly cede one iota of freedom.

And to those who gave me grief for years, and thought I was a "bad" liberal because I had a particular fondness for that second amendment? Didn't see the Bush cabal coming, did you? And those of you who thought I was paranoid? So? That doesn't make me any less right.