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

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.

Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.

I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.

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