The free flow of people across borders is not to be confused with the free flow of goods across borders. Free trade is a positive-sum game. Contrary to illegal immigration, it is always invited, consensual and hence mutually beneficial to the parties involved.

There are just too many Americans grubbing for free stuff and a preponderance of Republicans eager to parcel it out in exchange for power.

Members of the media-monetary-military-congressional complex are immoral and have an allergy to the truth.

Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.

A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa.

Barack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in the ambitious, affable Obama - his confidence and calm, and his commitment to community and kin, education and excellence - these came from Kansas, not Kenya.

Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism.