Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

I am not robbed by people who have more money than me. I am robbed by a government that wants to penalize my industry and give increasing portions of what I earn to people who do not emulate my principles, morals and ethics.

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else?

Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.