I’m not happy that we have to rely on a narrow majority on the Supreme Court to uphold the First Amendment. But I’m happy that the majority is there, and that, as in so many areas, we may be already past flood stage and watching the Obamist flood tide receding.

Thank you GWB!

Free speech cuts lots of ways. Politicians and interest groups will try to use it for their own ends, and they will often succeed, as Obama did in his campaign.

But since we don’t know which way free speech is going to cut, I’ll take free speech rather than a trimmed version. In politics you never know whether you are getting a Snark or a Boojum:

“In the midst of the word he was trying to say,

In the midst of his laughter and glee,

He had softly and suddenly vanished away,

For the Snark *was* a Boojum, you see.”