Is Rand Paul right? Is Orwell’s “1984″ here?
Saturday, June 8th, 2013Senator Paul is absolutely right to draw a glowing line from the Magna Carta to the Constitution. The battle to limit government power has been long and hard-fought. The greatest victory of that battle—the new United States of America—was rare in human history. Almost miraculous, for indeed, it was the greatest limitation of state power in a history that, for the most part, has been dominated by various forms of oppression.
But alas, as we have seen over the 20th century, and very much accel...
