More For the Choir

Liberties lost in the name of safety... Over at The Atlantic, Wendy Kaminer tells the emperor he's naked as a jaybird.

You shouldn't deny the fear that drives the diminution of freedom. You'll only end up looking foolish. "A bomb can't beat us," President Obama assured Bostonians three days after the attack. "We don't hunker down ... we don't cower in fear." Yes we do. Less than 24 hours after Obama left town, hundreds of thousands of us were "sheltering in place."

Go read it.