You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken.

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

The seeds of today's runaway government were planted when it was decided that government should help those who can't help themselves. From that modest, compassionate beginning to today's out-of-control mega-state, there's a straight, unbroken line. Once the door was open, once it was settled that the government should help some people at the expense of others, there was no stopping it.

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.