Tuesday, March 9

Amend This! - They don't seem to have included a "defense of marriage" clause in the new Iraqi Bill of Rights. But then that's not the only improvement on the American model. Iraqis have an "ERA" guaranteeing equal rights for women, and there's an explicit right to privacy, among other things. Despite those discrepancies, it is interesting to see how many of the crucial freedoms the Founding Fathers had nailed down two and a quarter centuries ago.