For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

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

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

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

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.

Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.