[NVDave]

Exactly.

Reading Tyrell these days, I find him to be an insufferably pompous ass. In this situation, yet again, he took the statist, big-government position while claiming (undoubtedly with a straight face) to be a “conservative.”

I submit RET is an exemplar for the typical GOP insider.

[stansblugrassgrl]

“Last week, goaded by Drudge’s hordes, I took my stand against the opponents of the scan and the pat-down.”

This guy took a stand against the opponents of the issue (his own words above) rather then looking at the merits of their arguments. No intellectual integrity at all.

[hinckley buzzard]

I used to read TAS religiously back in the day when it was a large-format newsprint journal in B&W only. A great counter cultural screed. Tyrell was the most witty living conservative at that time.

If this were 1980 he would never have dismissed the government's unwarranted intrusions into personal liberty in the name of a dubious security. My guess is he was reacting to what he considered a boob-bait issue, but found out differently.