The key question for many voters is: How much is the candidate offering for my vote?

Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable.

Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.

The more freedoms Americans lose, the more dangerous government becomes.