Free America?

The U.S. federal government, under the current administration, is getting a bit too big and powerful, in contravention of our founding father's vision, as this article (also printed here below) at the non partisan PresstheNews.Com notes. Particularly the Executive branch, as noted with alarm in this study by the conservative Cato Institute.

What has Congress done about it? Not much

Now, as the popular web log Daily Kos notes, according to numerous eyewitness accounts, a rifle was pointed at civil protesters at a Bush visit in Florida. In America? The land of the free and the home of the brave? This should be intolerable to all Americans.