The incomparable Ben Stein is one of my colleagues at The American Spectator. Although I have seen him at AmSpec events, I don’t know him personally. But I wish I did. He seems to be a very nice and amiable man, and his articles are always insightful and entertaining. Here is an excerpt from his latest AmSpec article titled “Prosecutorial Bolshevism” (linked to here) in which he discusses the virtually unchecked power of federal and elected county prosecutors to ruin lives and careers: At any point the prosecutors can issue indictments for crimes, real or imagined, felonies or misdemeanors based […]