Conservative vs. Liberal Judges?

Saturday's op-ed contained a piece by a conservative writer bemoaning the terrible "mistakes" conservatives have had in appointing properly conservative judges to the Supreme Court, citing Scalia and Thomas as the only ones recently that have remained properly conservative.  Maybe the problem is not that they have not remained "conservative" enough (since when are judges supposed to be political anyhow?) but that they are merely following the Constitution, the laws and precedent and this just isn't the alternative reality conservatives have set up for themselves.  Their "reality" is that only "liberal" judges are activists and Scalia is a strict constructionist, following the Constitution to the letter.  Only someone with an alternative reality or a contortionist could rule that the Second Amendment contains no reference to the ownership of guns being tied to being in the militia.

Of course the biggest irony of the whole thing is that the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act was a Republican, conservative idea, asked for by that holy of holies to conservatives, private industry.  It only became an evil government thing when it was adopted by Democrats and that evil black president.

Bishop's view on religious freedom hypocritcal

Saturday's Post had an op-ed in the religion section by a Catholic bishop that supposedly was about religious freedom.  In it he accused all cases of mass murder as having been done by atheists, specifically referencing by alusion Hitler.  Stalin and the Chinese may be declared atheists but I don't belive Hitler was.  And any group that makes these accusations must be clean of blood themselves and the Catholics certainly aren't.  Think of the "Holy Wars" and the Inquisition.  Also the fact that while individual priests in Germany may have protested Hitler and helped Jews, the Pope did absolutely nothing against Hitler and nothing to help Jews.

He also conveniently forgets that religious freedom includes allowing other people to have freedom to worship- or not- as they please.