Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.

I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state.

Imagine if the political elites in our country were forced to endure the same conditions at the airport as business travelers, families, senior citizens, and the rest of us. Perhaps this problem could be quickly resolved if every cabinet secretary, every member of Congress, and every department head in the Obama administration were forced to submit to the same degrading screening process as the people who pay their salaries.

Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social cause catches its fancy. In a free society, their lives are not the playthings of government.

Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs. We export our manufacturing jobs to Asia, and now we plan to export our welfare jobs to Iraq, all at the expense of the poor and the middle class here at home.

If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?