Constitution Prof's War Against It

"As a general rule, politicians tend to whipsaw between two poles," writes libertarian Bart Hinkle. "Conservatives try to increase economic liberty but show less regard for civil liberties. Liberals care deeply about civil liberties while trying to restrict the economic kind. But the Obama administration is remarkable for its degree of disdain for both."

Hinkle's excellent short piece is well worth reading in its entirety for its succinct cataloguing of the ways in which this Administration is undermining and/or subverting the First, Second and Fourth Amendments. Concludes Hinkle, with a bit of humor,

From a civil-liberties perspective, Obama has carried forward nearly every one of the war-on-terror powers that led liberals to denounce George W. Bush as a goose-stepping fascist, and in fact has made many of them worse. When he retires from public life, perhaps he will return to teaching the Constitution. That should be much easier work — given how little of it there will be left.