Special interests invest in political campaigns as a cost of doing business, and they expect a handsome return on their investments.That usually comes in the form of pet legislation, subsidies, tax breaks, limitations on liability, preferential treatment . . . the list goes on. Of course, politicians are only too happy to accommodate these special interests in exchange for political contributions that help cement and perpetuate their power. As a result, the free market can’t do what it’s designed by nature to do, which is to sift good companies from bad ones and empower consumers with authentic choice. In effect, crony capitalism is a form of central planning, something that libertarians and conservatives historically eschew.

Did you know it was going to cost YOU $6.3 TRILLION to excuse the people who violated OUR borders and broke OUR laws by sneaking into OUR country? Well, actually, that estimate is probably kinda low. Don’t you love the way liberal politicians throw around YOUR money?

Liberals are masters of hypocrisy, and when it comes to freedom of speech, they valiantly embrace the old double standard. They’ll bring lawsuits till the cows come home to defend some pervert’s “right” to distribute pornography or other offensive materials to the public or to engage in displays of nudity and obscenity on public streets, even though children may be present, but they’ll fight like maniacs against public displays of pro-life messages and disturbing images of aborted babies, because—they claim—children might see them and be upset.

The dominant media in this country, which are overwhelmingly liberal, are waging a sophisticated, undeclared war on the Republican Party (and conservatives in general); and the party, instead of strongly fighting back, is weakly and incompetently just letting those media win the war. Who knows how many elections Republicans/conservatives have lost because of biased media coverage?

This is a great illustration of why the government has no business telling you or anyone else how many bullets you need to protect your family.