My Current Novel, Pallas, Is All About

We're All A Bunch Of Badminton Birdies Who Just Got Batted From The Republican Side Of The Court To The Democrat Side. We'll Eventually Get Batted Back Again, Of Course, Unless Libertarians Can Manage To Do Something About It. If Your Principal Concern, Like Mine, Is Freedom, There's Absolutely No Discernable Difference Between The Two 'majors,' And For All Practical Purposes, They're One Big Party - The Boot On Your Neck Party - Pretending To Be Two.

And Yet, What Is Bravery But The Capacity To Reject Our Fears, Ignore And Supress Them, Then Go On To Do Whatever It Is We Are Afraid To Do.

To Politicians, Solved Problems Represent A Dire Threat - Of Unemployment And Poverty. That's Why No Problem Ever Tackled By The Government Has Ever Been Solved. What They Want Is Lots Of Problems They Can Promise To Solve, So That We'll Keep Electing Them - Or Letting Them Keep Their Jobs In A Bureaucracy Metastasizing Like Cancer.

Never Forget, Even For An Instant, That The One And Only Reason Anybody Has For Taking Your Gun Away Is To Make You Weaker Than He Is, So He Can Do Something To You That You Wouldn't Allow Him To Do If You Were Equipped To Prevent It. This Goes For Burglars, Muggers, And Rapists, And Even More So For Policemen, Bureaucrats, And Politicians.

America Didn't Have A Drug Problem Before It Passed Drug Laws. While Drugs Were Consumed By Large Numbers Of People — The Number Of Women Habituated To The Opium Found In Laudanum Was, No Pun Intended, Staggering — They Were, For The Most Part, Easily Able To Live Their Lives, Do Their Jobs, And Raise Their Families Pretty Much The Way We Do Today.