Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government has no resources of its own, and since there's no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person's property to give it to another to whom it does not belong - in effect, legalized theft.

Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.

I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams guns have been taken, you'll know Williams is dead.

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not going to wait for you to finish construction.

If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.

According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.