I thank God that I've got enough sense to own a gun and that I was able to use it to prevent a possibly serious crime against my family.

Reuters reports trouble at the North Pole.

The statements and actions of the Westboro Baptist Church are precisely the sort of offensive, unpopular, marginal viewpoint that the First Amendment was designed from Day One to protect.

When liberals mail extra millions each year to the Treasury, then it might be time to listen to their ideas too.

Obesity has now reached the point where serious engineering consequences are required.

It's a far better thing, as well as much easier, for government to act to prevent a disaster, or at least to warn residents loudly and clearly of the potential consequences of their foolish choices.

Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Hermann Goering is laughing.

Inspecting IDs is a waste of time and money, but it's ideal from the bureaucratic point of view because it doesn't solve the problem.

Mr. Washington said, "Government is like fire - an uncertain servant and a fearful master," but he missed the essence. At its core, governance boils down to two questions: "Who says?" and "Who pays?"

Bureaucracies never die, and India's still uses genuine red tape.