Organized crime is not just another term for government. But some folks in government seem hell-bent on proving that it is.

President Obama sounds eerily like Darth Vader, these days.

When is big government too big? Some politic answers aren't much help.

Our founders gave us the First Amendment – not the IRS and the FEC.

Proponents of gun control are clearly showing their biases, and ignorant of the research on the subject of gun violence. But it's precisely when this is so clear that it's appropriate to take a step back and acknowledge our own biases, too.

It's a tale of Nixonian reactionaries using government to suppress their political adversaries to establish a fascistic state. Er, no. It's a tale of Obamanian "progressives" doing the exact same thing.

The Obama Administration is very loose with the timing of the president's signings - and that's just one sign of the times.

Our politicians don't just spew hot air. They emit a pure and noble gas - which they control by price regulation, and store underground.

Power corrupts. Insulated power corrupts corrosively.

As Republicans scramble to bolster up their constituencies, Republican politicians in three states enthusiastically get behind issues that will almost certainly lose them voters from all segments of the electorate.

Violence in general might not be on the rise, but certain pockets of violence demonstrate a great breakdown in civilization.

The President of the United States is trying to shame Americans into a frenzy of unreasoned passion ... to make bad law.

In several key states, GOP politicians are working together, moving heaven and earth, making sure that they shoot their party in the proverbial foot.

Professional sporting teams rake in billions and billions every year, entice multi-billionaires to buy up teams, and pay their athletes in the millions each. So of course the need for taxpayer subsidy is crystal clear - to politicians.

The masters of the drone strike got struck last week - by an unwanted question.

Our public schools may be afflicted with politically correct propagandists. Luckily, most kids will learn, chiefly, to question authority.

The right to petition government: A bedrock principle for the American system. But politicians keep trying to curb that right.

Raise the minimum wage. See what happens. No, I mean raise it an appreciable amount.

When you don't want to do the necessary thing, like live within your budget, you cook up the darnedest excuses.

The people the hardest hit by December's shooting atrocity know how best to hit back hardest.