David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?

The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.

To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.