I did not plan or plant this one, but I am grateful. A friend from the Hill e-mails an e-mail he received from Afghanistan:

. . . I don’t have any real feel for the day to day battles on the Hill, but I feel like I’m doing an alright job of staying informed on the broad issues. National Review’s “Corner” has been invaluable . . .

God bless all our readers in dangerous parts of the world. To all our readers who have to work to get online. For all our readers making our freedom possible.

Makes you want to do your part to insist we protect these freedoms at home? To be engaged and informed? To call a congressman. To insist on religious-liberty protection as we have known it? It is the least we can do.