The Democrat Party has been big on "rights" for decades. The "right" to affordable healthcare. The "right" to a "living" wage.

If you name it, and it's a good thing, then dangit, you have a "right" to have it.

These "rights" are never limited to U.S. citizens, when Democrats speak of them, they are, at the very least, applicable to anyone and everyone under the jurisdiction of the United States.

Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), accused the president of being a dictator on the House floor for rounding up Japanese Americans and putting them in internment camps.

OK, I might have the reasoning wrong. What Nadler really went after the president over was for having the gall to recognize that the rules of war allow the president to hold captured enemies until hostilities cease. In the war against terrorism, this could certainly be the rest of their natural lives.

Most Democrats -- and a handful of Republicans -- still see the war against terrorism as a police action. That's the only way to explain the panoply of habeus corpus and other rights that the Democrats want to bestow on bloodthirsty terrorists who target civilians and don't fight by the rules of war.

The Constitution isn't a suicide pact, but there are too many who would have it become one.

Despite all of their screw-ups, at least Republicans recognize the nature of the threat. Democrats still haven't come to grips with the underlying issue, and that failure makes them dangerous.