TexasCHLforum.com

I'm sure I risk horrendous misinterpretation, but I can't help noticing. In the context of legislative consideration of Constitutional separation of power as well as certain civil rights, the Constitution's most effective adversaries and our biggest worries are in the Federal North.

The South, once the bastion of the worst, most evil human rights abuses this nation has ever seen, seems generally much more respectful of the Union's keystone document than our Northern brothers' elected leaders.

Exceptions exist both ways, of course, on either side of Mason and Dixon's survey. We should mentor our exceptions, nurture theirs, and recognize statism for the tyranny it is.

If Ms. Mikulski understood natural human rights as clearly as virtually every gun owner does (Yankee or modern Rebel), and particularly if she understood rights in the way many far-postbellum Southern gentlefolk do, she could never brush away the rule of law the way she did.

Shameful.