A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

You are where you are today because youve chosen to be there.

The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices.

Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.