If we have healthcare insurance, we can agree to whatever treatment our doctor recommends. We don’t care if the cost is unreasonable. The forces of supply and demand do not apply to medical services and products.

We need laws and we must follow them. If a despot should gain control of our government, they get to rewrite the laws. It is never pretty. At that point, democracy ends. No citizen militia can overthrow a dictator in control of the nation’s ...

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~ Aristotle

While we work, we think of the sacrifices and struggles of our forebears, how they helped us and how we wish to help our children in similar ways.

The “nanny state” is a symptom of a broken government system. Like in a dictatorship, other people decide what is best for us, whether we agree with them or not.