Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

I'm as radical as libertarians come.

The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.