The New Originals

Originalism is the vision of the U.S. Constitution as having the same meaning that it had when it was signed. For centuries this argument had no purcahse at all on constitutional scholars, but then Edwin Meese invented it and Reagan appointed a right-wing Supreme Court justice. You know, the guy with the dictionary from 1787 on his desk.

Now crackpot ex-anchorman Glenn Beck is touting the eighteenth-century compact. He tops the charts with "The Original Argument: The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century."

But hold on, Beck. How can you "adapt" the Constitution while at the same time insisting on the sanctity of its content in 1787? You can't get any more original than Original. Unless you're David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel.