All politics is local. You can’t get more local than your own curb, or can you? Sure can — there’s nothing more local than actually INSIDE your house or apartment — via the kitchen phone, which has that remarkable tendency to ring while you’re trying to put the baby asleep, or in the shower, or having dinner, and it’s Helga, selling aluminum siding, even at 8PM on a Sunday night. Nothing illegal with Helga doing that — but then there’s nothing wrong with wanting to be rid, wholesale, of this kind of marketing. I support this law, and as a conservative, I think it meshes well with that “leave us alone” strain in the movement. And as government and politics goes, this is no doubt the kind of issue that will resonante in the population at a much higher level than taxes, Medicare reform, and just about any other issue you can think of this side of Iraq.

About the Author
Jack Fowler is a contributing editor at National Review and a senior philanthropy consultant at American Philanthropic.
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