ROGER KIMBALL: A Little Wisdom From Benjamin Franklin. “The NSA part of the current entertainment, I am reminded of a friend’s note to me about how it fits in with the administration’s gradual transformation of itself into an unaccountable nomenklatura with more or less unlimited powers. The concomitant transformation, it does not quite go without saying, is the transformation of us citizens — formerly the employers of all those ‘public servants’ (it sounds funny now, doesn’t it: ‘public servants’ forsooth!) swanning about in Washington on our money — the transformation, I say, of us citizens into serfs, i.e., slaves working for a feudal master.”