The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14,1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.