By Lance Simmens
I just cannot remember it always being this way. Since when did the idea of taxes become ipso facto a bad idea, no way, no how, under no circumstances. In my 33 years of public service I can remember a time when balancing the fiscal equation meant negotiating a taxing and spending regimen that appreciated the need for government spending on things other than national defense, public safety, and corrections.
And then again maybe I am just daydreaming, but was there …

By Michael Hinckley From A World of Progress

When conservative pundits and talk show hosts play upon people’s fear, they do it for one reason: power. But they either didn’t have an Uncle Ben (or perhaps didn’t listen to him) like Peter Parker did. With great power comes great responsibility. Instead, the ends justify the means, regardless of who gets hurt in the process nor how contradictory.
Anti-government sentiment motivated Timothy McVeigh and his accomplices — all of whom warned of encroaching “big government” — to …