In an ideal world, we would go back to the beginning of the primary campaign and start all over, with an entirely news set of candidates.

Privacy? We don't need no stinkin' privacy!

It's hard to believe what short memories Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox have.

Use that "economic stimulus" check to promote freedom.

I hope this will convince my alma mater to lay off the fund-raising letters, emails, phone calls.

In the end, even Michael Moore couldn't say anything bad about Charlton Heston.

Afraid of losing their Second Amendment case, DC officials launch an assault on the Fourth Amendment.

California government's authority exceeds that of parents, according to a new court ruling, which with the stroke of a pen has declared 116,000 children criminally truant.

Kentucky lawmaker wants to protect our widdle kids from bad people who call them names.

Alan Korwin, who sometimes writes as "The Uninvited Ombudsman," files an upbeat dispatch about this year's SHOT (Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trades) show.

Or perhaps the more appropriate question is why do people who become cops end up morphing into belligerents?

Nary a week passes without some legislator somewhere demonstrating that politicians are people too damn stupid to do real work. Last week was no exception.

Nobody likes being treated like a crackpot, and now and then someone is reduced to emphasizing this point by violence.

Rent-seeking politics destroy another "little person" just trying to get along in the world.

It was Mark Twain who observed that no one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. Alas, that is more true than ever, especially in Maryland.

Quoting from this site: CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - A jury on Monday convicted a millionaire couple of enslaving two Indonesian women they brought to their mansion to work as housekeepers. Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51, and his wife, Varsha Mahen

Some reflections on entering my seventh decade.

The "name game" always makes entertaining reading for me.

Almost nine years have elapsed since Scott McNealy said, "You have zero privacy...get over it." Yet there is still something chilling about this bit of newspeak from the federal government.

At least the people in Frederick County are open about their anti-Muslim prejudice.

Methamphetamine scanners to be added to police detection arsenal.

Suggestions for a little political "Trick or Treating"

ONE Muslim parent's protest derails holiday celebrations for the majority.

Developer builds 5 story building around the home of an elderly owner who refused to sell. Government fails to protect her.

When cigarettes are illegal, only criminals will have cigarettes. Here we go again.