Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent.

Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.

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

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.

Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?

Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery.

The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.