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

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.

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.

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

I asked them to sit down since I’d come to walk around. I didn’t want them doing me favours.

I’m tired of screwing up. I’m tired of being down. I’m tired of myself. I’m tired of bein’ down.

That’s definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that foolishness and can bring all types of people together, especially when you can mix it and shape it.

I’ll stand my ground and I won’t back down.

Deep down, everything boils down (“au fond tout se ramène”, Fr.) to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and the realization in this world of higher principles, or else do we want to serve selfish.

When I get back into the city, it doesn’t matter where you plop me down, I have my friends around me and I feel so blessed.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.