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Barack Obama seems to have limited use for the U.S. Constitution. The consequences could be grave if Obama appoints people to the Supreme Court who don't strictly respect the Constitution.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, not given to vulgarisms, said, "The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows." In today's less classic syntax, one might say, "You can work you're a off, and you'll never reach anything better than a fact!"

Let's move to the world of baseball: A man is either "out," or he's "safe"— that's a fact.

Recently, baseball's 21st "perfect game" is destroyed by an umpire's mistake. Game: Cleveland Indians vs. Detroit Tigers. Detroit's pitcher, Armando Galarraga, is one out away from a "perfect game." How special is that? Fielding a pop-up, Galarraga makes the catch and steps on first base for the final out; Indian's runner Donaldson then crosses first base. Umpire Jim Joyce calls Donaldson… "safe"?!

TV replays show clearly that pitcher Galarraga has indeed pitched a perfect game, but is robbed by the error of the umpire, Joyce. Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig decides somehow to let the miscall stand.

If I drive through a red light, a camera can convict me hands down. A runner's foot is either in-bounds or out-of-bounds in football as the camera will prove. The labors of man have produced gadgets that often allow the truth to become undeniable "fact". Wonder if Selig would let it stand if his bank made a "miscall" that cost him a bundle?

Is there nothing else important about property in Winter Park outside its monetary value? How come there is not more often a mention of the pleasure of living in Winter Park? The delights of Winter Park's aesthetic charms cannot be adequately expressed in terms of square footage. Shouldn't allowable property alterations somehow include the pleasures they represent in the lives of those who are paying the freight?

One morning on "Bill Bennett's Morning in America" radio program, Bill was talking with writer Steven Emerson, who has written much about terrorism among us and is deep into a new book about Jihadism in the U.S. It is my recollection that phrases hooking-up words to do with "Muslim" with words to do with "terror" have been frowned upon in our public expression. We hear such tenuous explanations as "Even though all Muslims are not terrorists, it is true that most terrorists seem to be Muslims." OK! We don't need to draw a picture. Emerson suggests that the sole Islamic lust is to conquer the entire world for Islam. Islam is making alarming successes in England and France. Emerson wonders that English women "have not done something about" the great number (more than 80) of Sharia courts — with Sharia law — already established in Britain. On Bennett's program, Emerson surprisingly brought into question the nature of President Obama's relationship with Islam. This is a big and sensitive subject, a subject that America may increasingly need to confront realistically… facts are still "the sweetest dream"….