As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.

I'm not a social friend of the Reagans. That's by their choice and by mine. They don't drink enough.

I don't like government, it's just that simple.

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 trouble with celebrating Independence Day is that we tend to look back at what made this the great nation that it is and give little thought to a future that threatens that which free men hold dearest, namely freedom.

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.

Reagan's half a disciple of Benjamin Franklin. He believes in early to bed.