Monday, March 28, 2011

When Government Was a Bear

Froma Harrop, Providence Journal
Are conservatives right that our government has become overbearing? Is it true that the rights of the individual, enshrined at the dawn of the Republic and cried over by Glenn Beck, are being smashed by the modern state?One doesn't have to be a conservative to list offensive government interventions. (I don't think the feds have any business ripping up a marijuana plant in a homeowner's yard.) But this idea that the Founders oversaw a golden age of individual rights and that we've since become serfs of an all-devouring government is a fantasy. Consider the creation of...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/29/when_government_was_a_bear_109371.html

Harry Reid Mitch McConnel Rush Limbaugh George Bush George W. Bush

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