...guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

The concerted effort to minimize Christmas has resulted in it being our national Happy Holiday holiday. The Christmas season is now the holiday season. Christmas parties are now holiday parties. Christmas is a time for giving and receiving presents and in many homes, nothing more. Who is this fellow, Jesus Christ, anyway?

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

There are many things in America worth conserving. But I am one of those conservatives who believes the most important of those things is liberty. Without liberty, without individual freedom, what is left to conserve isn't worth all that much.

If you make one word out of 'The IRS' it spells 'theirs.'