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I was walking around Rutgers the other day when I came upon a memorial to students who had fought in World War II. The list of names was impressive, but I imagine most major universities in America have similar memorials.

 

It was only when I happened to walk by Old Queens that I noticed something you wouldn't see on just any campus. It was a plaque honoring the Rutgers men who had fought in the Revolutionary War. Nearby is the spot from which Alexander Hamilton directed cannon fire against the British in cover of George Washington's army.

 

 

You don't see that sort of thing in the so-called heartland, which would be in the heart of nowhere if not for the Jersey boys. Yet hardly a day goes by that I don't receive an e-mail from some self-proclaimed 100 percent American in a red state informing me that I can't possibly be a true conservative because I and my newspaper column originate here in New Jersey.

 

I am thankful to Antonin Scalia and Sam Alito for forever laying that myth to rest. It is a curious fact that two-ninths of the membership of the U.S. Supreme Court originates in that city where George Washington so famously routed the Hessians back in 1776. And the Trenton two were instrumental in the historic decision last week that, to the consternation of liberals everywhere, returned the Constitution to its revolutionary roots.

 

That was, of course, the decision in the case of D.C. vs. Heller, in which the court ruled for the first time that the Second Amendment to the Constitution means what it says. And what it says is that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

 

You might argue that anyone could have concluded the same. But the genius of the Jersey-born Scalia was in expressing that opinion in terms that are irrefutable even to liberals. Liberals love to argue in favor of both individual rights and the right of revolution, assuming the revolutionary in question looks good on a T-shirt,

Our revolutionary history is better than yours. And our conservative intellectuals are smarter than yours.

 

When you are exposed to liberalism, you either join them, or you join the conservatives. There is little middle ground, especially when you are exposed to such a dramatic social leftist condition as NJ...

I think the extreme leftist atmosphere here in NJ is the reason why there is such a high concentration of "Independents" in NJ. I walk that middle ground, especially when the gap is so large, as it is in NJ.

 

Conservatives trample rights just like Leftists, they just trample different rights in accordance with their agendas.

 

I think frequent turnover is the best tool to avoid any party getting too comfortable and taking too many liberties (literally and figuratively).