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.

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

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

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.

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

I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction on key issues, such as immigration. The Republican Party has become the party of the government status quo, and conservatives see no reason to reward it with their votes.

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.