The right to the free exercise of religion and political speech never guaranteed that such exercise will be found in good taste. Jayvie Canono via Twitter

One of my biggest issues with federal spending on so-called “safety net” programs is that more often than not, the safety net becomes a security blanket.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” — H. L. Mencken