Surprise! The NSA admits it has broken the rules that break the rules. Ben Affleck chosen to play Batman. Some prelminary thoughts on Mark Levin’s The Liberty Amendments & more. See program notes, below, for links related to the stories we’re discussing in today’s show.
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Program notes:
NSA Analysts Intentionally Abused Spying Powers Multiple Times
Variety: Ben Affleck is the new Batman
First chapter of THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS
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CDC: Newborn Circumcision on Decline in the US
9-year-old Banned from Library Contest for Winning (HT Rob Abiera)
Bloomberg: Take Fewer Bathroom Breaks to Succeed
Mann v. Steyn — Mann Wins Round One (HT Robert Reed Daly)
Coburn joins call for constitutional convention (HT Rob Abiera)
Don't Let It Go 
Two Points.
1) Public school civics courses teach that it is the role of the Supreme Court to decide on the constitutionality of laws. And historically it has played this role. However, no where does the Constitution authorize the Supreme Court to exercise this power and the framers did not intend it to play this role. This power is pure usurpation, invented out of whole cloth by Marshal in Marbury vs. Madison very early in the history of the republic.
Some means may be needed to make such decisions but history has demonstrated that allowing a part of the Federal government to do so has been an intolerable failure.
2) It is specious to argue that the Federal government must make criminal laws (eg. re abortion) uniform across the states because otherwise it would be anarchy. No. Such non-uniformity IS the American system.