“Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.”

After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.

It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials.

Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher – like Reagan – refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.

It’s not a gun control problem; it’s a cultural control problem.

I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.

On taking office, Obama promised the ‘most transparent’ administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

The Republican Party has become the party of the government status quo, and conservatives see no reason to reward it with their votes.

Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties – from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.

It matters not whether its proponents have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting ‘experts’ that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.

After I finished the Atlantic swim I said “never again,” but it didn’t take long for me to change my mind. I like to push my limits. I want to raise money for cancer research and to inspire others to follow their dreams.

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn’t you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

Certainly Tunisia was the first in Muslim world. It’s been like that for a long time and women play an important part in Tunisia. There are women in all professions. Doctors, dentists, lawyers, politicians, journalists and so on.

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

Don’t forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.

I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States – even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.