MATT WELCH: Remember that PATRIOT Act thingy? You didn’t think it would be going away just because the Democrats campaigned against it every day in 2008, did you?

Not only did I not think it would be going away, I thought the people who were going on about the fierce moral urgency of change were either tools or rubes. And I was right!

UPDATE: Mathprof Stephen Clark writes: “Be sure that your readers understand that you are using the mathematical ‘or’ in your statement above. Surely, one can imagine a nonempty intersection of those two classes.” Indeed.