“When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.”

Barack Obama’s mention of “absolutism” in his inaugural speech on Monday drew the ire of one of its intended targets.  Wayne LaPierre blasted Obama for equating absolutism on an explicit guaranteed right in the Constitution with extremism.  In his speech to a hunting conference, a defiant NRA chief warned that the substitution of personal preference [...]

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