U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks of Fayetteville is the man you want whenever these legislators of ours try to pull some unconstitutional stunt infringing on the Bill of Rights.

If you're one who thinks we don't need all these rights--that they get in the way of your having things as you personally want them--then he's not the go-to for you.

Brooks is the judge who has put all those anti-reading, anti-library laws under preliminary injunction. He thus spared your local public and school librarians from possible criminal charges if a kid gets hold of a book a legislator deems inappropriate.

On Monday, the judge made permanent his injunction against this law telling schools to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom.

You can call him a pointy-headed liberal if you want, but I call him one seriously logical rascal. His 26 pages roar with simple reason and common sense.

The state argued that the Commandments weren't religious in the way of mixing church and state, but historic as the foundation of our heritage and the laws common to our heritage.

The judge wondered, then, why the state law calls for posting the Commandments in all classrooms rather than in the relevant one,........

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