BARR SAYS NO FAITH, NO LIBERTY: Candor and truth from the Attorney General’s recent address to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast:

“That crucial link between religion and liberty, so well understood at the Founding, is all too often forgotten today. In American public discourse, perhaps no concept is more misunderstood than the notion of ‘separation of church and state.’

“Militant secularists have long seized on that slogan as a facile justification for attempting to drive religion from the public square and to exclude religious people from bringing a religious perspective to bear on conversations about the common good.”

Confession: When President Donald Trump appointed William Barr to replace Jeff Sessions at the Department of Justice, I worried that choosing a Bush I administration retread signaled a worrisome choice to reach an accommodation with the GOP Establishment. I was wrong about Trump and Barr.