In Defense of Certainty It's trendy to be suspicious of people with "deeply held views." And it's wrong By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER "And in [William] Pryor's case, his beliefs are so well known, so deeply held, that it's very hard to believe, very hard to believe that they're not going to deeply influence the way he comes about saying, 'I will follow the law.' And that would be true of anybody who had very, very deeply held views." --Senator Charles Schumer, during a hearing on the nomination of William Pryor for U.S. appeals-court judge, June 2003 These things come in waves,...