The ideas of free will and personal responsibility — bedrock principles of conservative ideology, not to mention law enforcement — seem unshaken.
But what is at stake here is not mere personal privacy, but the bedrock American principles of separation of powers and the rule of law.
Also, I find that I've quoted, among friends and family, some of the exemplary lines and situations from "While We're Young," where the nuggets of wit seems hard-mined from the bedrock of personal discomfort.
"On the core values of the Republican Party, which are freedom, economic opportunity, personal responsibility, I'm a bedrock Republican," Mr. Franks said.
"I hope Chaz and I run into you at Cannes in May," he wrote – Chaz of course being his wife, and the absolute bedrock of his personal and professional life.
The rituals we use to acknowledge personal suffering lie at the bedrock of Jewish life.
The stakes were so high, I felt, because it had literally changed the bedrock of my personal values, and I hoped that the information would hit him just as strongly.
Personal and economic liberty are the bedrock principals of Libertarians: truly free markets would engender actual capitalism, which they claim we've never had.
John [McCain] and I start with a bedrock belief that protecting Americans' personal, private information is vital to making the Information Age everything it should be.
In every sense of the phrase, understanding how to increase personal fulfillment through selfless service is the bedrock for any potential long-term solution to addressing the root causes that allow injustice, poverty, and inequality to fester in our communities.
