The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

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

MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.