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

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

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.

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

I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan’s are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. And of course, there actually are no real Vulcan’s, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.

I don’t think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief–if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real.

The youth are the catalysts for real change.

Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far … They don’t have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that “real wealth.” It exposes what’s wrong in the mainstream economics and why most of the economics that justifies austerity programs and economic shrinkage is in the textbooks is not scientific.

I want them to have this sense of real, real joy from the depths of their being. Because I think when you take them to that place, then you open up a place where grace can come in.

I think the best comedic actors don’t play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it’s real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do – it’s embarrassing.