I’ve used Thomas Paine’s quote many times. I can’t think of time when this quote is more applicable than now – “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one”. But that isn’t a reason for it to be necessarily evil. With the Supreme Court ruling in favor of releasing over 40 thousand convicted felons in California, government is definitely showing its evil nature. [More]

When Bush took the White House in 2001, as a conservative, I was gravely disappointed in his failure to pursue, at least in any visible fashion, the apparent misconduct of the prior inhabitants.  Within conservative circles, there were numerous accoun... [More]