The main international problem facing America is our lack of - our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.

Let us not rush into a vast expansion of government power in a misguided attempt to protect freedom. In doing so, we will inevitably erode the very freedom we seek to protect.

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

The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.

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.

The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect them from competition.

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