Constitutional authority

I like to think I'm not a blind patriot; that I'm not oblivious to America's faults and weaknesses when I say it is truly a great and marvelous country. I will however maintain that America is a wonder. The most recent example I've been presented with is the court ruling regarding a U.S. resident held at Guantanamo (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10947948). I am continually amazed by America's passion to fight vigorously for the rights of her would be enemies. That America would have the structure and the process and the right to police herself to the point of ordering her president to release a suspected terrorist is, when looked at objectively, quite incredible. Further, I find it striking that the terrorists would like to abolish the very system which is continually working to defend their rights as humans, and that that system is forced to defend them none the less, as it would be useless to all if it failed to apply to some. This is good and correct, but remarkable from what we know of the human tendencies toward tyranny and selfishness.

Caleb Benjamin Scott

I think he looks like his mom, thank goodness.