When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.