IN THE MAIL: Andrew Napolitano’s new book, The Constitution in Exile : How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land. It should probably be read together with Joel Miller’s Size Matters.

The good news — as this piece on responses to the Kelo case demonstrates — is that liberty lost isn’t gone forever, if people care. Just think how much could have been accomplished, though, if the GOP Congress had actually cared about limiting government.