"So perhaps we limited-government types are mistaken when we criticize today's big government conservatism's claims to be the heir to Reagan's legacy. In the sense that they support limited government in theory but not in practice, perhaps they really are the ideological descendants of Reagan. Social conservatives want to free themselves from the public schools, NPR, and high taxes, but when it comes to dictating who can marry whom, who can put what substances into their own parties, who can gamble, engage in consensual sex, or market pornography, they're perfectly comfortable dropping down the yoke of the state."

In another case, a $935,000 grant was awarded for general security improvements to a port where an industrial park was being built, leading department staff members to question if the money was in fact an economic development grant, instead of antiterrorism financing.