On Veterans Day, when Americans are apt to take an expansive view of their freedoms and the role of their armed forces in securing them, The New York Times ran an article calling into question the commitment of one sitting Supreme Court justice to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  Anthony Kennedy, a Reagan appointee who is considered a staunch First Amendment defender, addressed an assembly on October 28th at the tony Dalton School on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.  The talk was covered by the student newspaper, The Daltonian.  The judge’s staff insisted that he be able to pre-approve the resulting article, and the school complied with this demand.

I get it that a lot of people, particularly women and people around my age or younger, don’t like–or maybe “loathe” is the better term?–the late Edward Moore Kennedy.

But honestly, I’ve had enough of the trash talk about Kennedy from the left, and in particular from left-leaning women and young’uns who came into political consciousness post-Reagan.