Free Republic

George W. Bush is gone from Washington but his legacy, like an abandoned toxic waste dump, lingers on. Like President Franklin Roosevelt before him, President Bush helped redefine American freedom. And like Roosevelt's, Bush's changes were perversions of the clear vision the Founding Fathers bequeathed to us. What did freedom mean in the era of George Bush? In Iraq in September 2004, the U.S. military constructed Camp Liberty, a tent compound to house Iraqi detainees next to the Abu Ghraib prison. (The torture scandal and photos had been revealed in late April.) Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller declared that Camp Liberty...

Looking at pictures of the June 10 homosexual demonstration in São Paulo, Brazil, I asked myself how large might the combined populations of Sodom and Gomorrah have been. Each city certainly could not have had more than a few thousand inhabitants. Promoters of the Sao Paulo “gay pride parade” claim more than three million either participated or watched from the sidewalks, making it the world’s largest such event. The number is undoubtedly exaggerated since the boulevard simply could not fit that many people. However, there is no denying that a considerable crowd of perhaps one million was present. Photographs show...