There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.

According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.

There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim terrorists.

The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally.

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.