Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.

The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in this absurd notion. Many were intimidated into voting for police state legislation, because they lacked the intestinal fortitude to call police state legislation by its own name. The legislation that has been passed during the Bush regime is far more dangerous to Americans than Muslim terrorists.

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

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

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.