"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both." - James Madison
Two major events last week strike me as one of the great weeks in American History; the election of Scott Brown (R-MA) to what the Democrats considered their "ultra-safe Kennedy seat" in the Senate and the Supreme Court's decision affirming the proposition that free speech applies to the speech not speaker and therefore can not be stifled.