Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

I was a closet stutterer.

Patrick Henry didn't say, "Give me safety, or give me death."

Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound private investment. Obama has no real wealth to inject into the economy. He can only move around existing money while inflation robs us of purchasing power. Meanwhile, private investors who might have produced a better engine, battery, computer, cancer treatment or other wealth-creating and life-enhancing innovations hold back for fear that big government will undermine productive efforts.

Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.

Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.