A New Jersey family is hoping for a court hearing today to regain physical custody of their 8-month-old son, who is being detained now at Morristown Memorial Hospital on the order of the state Division of Youth and Family Services.

"To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms. “ --Julius Caesar

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld “lied” when he said the cost of moving Fort Monmouth in Eatontown to nearby Aberdeen, Maryland, would be $685 million.

If ever there was a model for inefficiency. bloat, and incompetence it has to be the United States Postal Service. That organization’s own acceptance of low expectations and poor business practices now combined with advances in technology have rendered it completely obsolete.

Irvine, CA--By a unanimous vote, the Senate has approved the Mental Health Parity Act of 2007, which would forbid employers to offer less favorable insurance coverage for mental illness than for physical illness. Support for a similar measure is widespread in the House, so passage of a new federal law this year seems likely.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the most brilliant political analyst in America.

Central banks are not so wise or powerful as most people assume them to be.

There are so many forces arrayed against America it’s a wonder our republic survives at all. Even dollars are used against us.

Zeke lived with an FFA teacher because he had no other home.  He worked for his room and board; he fed the pigs and chickens, and helped with the milking.  The summer between the 8th and 9th grades, Jasper, the FFA teacher, took Zeke to a neighbor’s ranch and let him pick out a day-old Hereford bull for his first FFA project.  The deal was that Jasper would pay for the calf, and for the feed, and Zeke could repay Jasper when the calf grew to become the Grand Champion Steer at the state fair, and sold at the fair’s annual auction.

In theory, I like the Fair Tax idea. I have to say, I find it completely illogical that many people today who earn up to $50,000 a year, end up paying no Federal taxes at all. Why, exactly, should they get away with paying nothing? It simply makes no sense that those in the highest tax brackets pay nearly all the taxes, and everyone else gets off free of charge. We all use the same government, after all. Why should it be free to so many?

As the Twin Cities struggle to return to normalcy in the aftermath of the collapse of the bridge along I-35, we will be subjected to the unseemly spectacle of politicians pointing fingers at each other. I am not interested in this political soap opera, but rather in the larger lessons we can learn from this tragedy.

"From the cowardice that dare not face new truths,
From the laziness that is contented with half truth,
From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth,
Good Lord, deliver me.”
--Kenyan prayer

This interview which took place last week will air on CSPAN2 on Monday, 8AM est

Is private property the foundation of prosperity?  America’s founders were convinced that it is.  For more than a century, the vast majority of Americans, and their elected representatives were convinced that it is.  In the last half-century, the majority of Americans, and their elected representatives, have lost sight of this fundamental principle of freedom, and have allowed governments at every level to take, or to take control of, the foundation of prosperity for all Americans.

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