However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.

Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barac k Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.

The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.

What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear that the voting public did not want government control of medical care. What is "historic" is that this will be the first administration to show that it doesn't care one bit what the public wants or doesn't want.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.