Stop and ponder the arguments our leaders use in insisting on depriving us of our constitutional freedoms—including the freedom of religion, upon which the Obama administration is waging war. Then read this from Jonah Goldberg: Therein lies a common principle: the state should be allowed to get away with anything, so long as it is for “good reasons.” This is the common principle among fascism, Nazism, Progressivism, and what we today call liberalism. It represents the triumph of Pragmatism in politics in that it recognizes no dogmatic boundaries to the scope of government power. The leader and his anointed cadres are decision makers above and beyond political or democratic imperatives. They invoke with divine reverence “science” and the laws of economics the way temple…