May 26, 2005
fundamental rights?
I caught on the radio while driving something about a NY District court judge ruling against tobacco smoking at a private club, for a once-a-year pipe-smoking event. The real kicker was that his opinion said that the Constitution grants no fundamental right to smoke tobacco! Uh huh. Yet by some mysterious alchemy it grants a fundamental right to abortion...
I can imagine that judge sitting around with his cronies talking about how those conservatives are joyless puritans who want to meddle in people's private lives...
Posted by John Weidner at May 26, 2005 01:06 PM | TrackBackAh, another judge who *obviously* hasn't read the Constitution. If he had, he would have seen something called the Tenth Amendment, and would have thereby gotten a really big clue about how the Framers wanted everything that was not forbidden to be authorized. Instead, the liberals, with their emphasis on rule by experts, want us all to believe that anything not authorized (by the experts, naturally) is forbidden.
Bah.
Posted by: Hale Adams at May 26, 2005 05:06 PM
