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By order of the President.

There are so few people who will dare to study authority, when most of the struggle is about authority.

The answer to the question, "Well ... what rights have you lost?" is, "Any time our authority is diminished."

In the present "national security crisis," we are asked, "Well ... why would you object to such security measures if you have nothing to hide?" to which the answer is, "There are many, outstanding, wise security measures which do not, and would not, diminish our authority."

The President is a statist; he is not a democratic-republican; he denies the authority of the people, and of our Constitution.

He has the power to affect the establishment by operations management within the war department powers delegated to him under our Constitution, to affect national security on the homefront without a new department of the federal government.

Yet his solutions are statist.

Here we are, a country stressed-out by the A.C.L.U. and its motto: "separation of church and state," yet not much of a peep from the A.C.L.U. about President Bush's "faith-based initiatives" sermoned from the Executive pulpit.

And no wonder, because what establishment of church and state could more enthrall the extreme leftism of the A.C.L.U., than to be handed such an instrument with which they (and Hillary &Co.) will define what is, and what is not, politically correct faith to be federally supported?

The number of people who are supporting this new Republican- in- name- only- zeitgeist which was launched upon a so-called "new paradigm" that supposedly is some act the world has never seen ... is unfortunately yet another remake of an old story playing to a new audience.

In the countenance of our new government of the moment, we face an all-powerful state under presumedly-benign leadership, versus the American political tradition in the heartland that is the basis of the limited government in our worthy democratic-republic.

I am with the heartland, and I'll always remember you.