Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was already $170,000 in debt. You'd tell him to get his act together - stop spending so much or he'd destroy his family, impoverish his kids and wreck their future. Of course, no individual could live so irresponsibly for long. But tack on eight more zeroes to that budget and you have the checkbook for our out-of-control, big-spending federal government.

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

Why, in our "free" country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

The people who have the biggest passion for restricting other people's behavior are the very people we should worry about most. Unfortunately, they keep running for office.

Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations provide a false sense of security - and that's worth less than no sense of security at all.