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

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

Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important to be left to the calcified union/government monopoly.

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

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

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.

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.