It Is Difficult, If Not

On Taking Office, Obama Promised The 'most Transparent' Administration In History; Yet His Record As President Has Been Anything But Transparent.

The Seemingly Omnipresent Storm Clouds Hanging Over The Constitution Often Make It Hard To Find A Silver Lining. 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.

Nobody Is Denying We Should Investigate And Do What We Can To Prevent Gun Crime In Our Cities And Towns. But, We Should Not Scapegoat The American Gun Owner For Complicated, Cultural Problems We Are Just Beginning To Understand.

I Sense That Conservatives Have Largely Already Tuned Out To The Coming Elections, After Six Years Of Burgeoning Federal Spending And Inaction On Key Issues, Such As Immigration. The Republican Party Has Become The Party Of The Government Status Quo, And Conservatives See No Reason To Reward It With Their Votes.

Taking Privacy Cues From The Federal Government Is - To Say The Least - Ironic, Considering Today's Orwellian Level Of Surveillance. At Virtually Any Given Time Outside Of One's Own Home, An American Citizen Can Reasonably Assume His Movements And Actions Are Being Monitored By Something, By Somebody, Somewhere.