It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.

There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.

The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.