What's good for power tools isn't good for government.

I keep seeing these news stories about increasing cigarette tax and CAFE standards, and about mandatory depression screening for all teens, and about nationalizing banks, insurance companies, and auto makers, and I keep flashing on Tim Allen's tag line from Home Improvement.

And I keep thinking about the consequences the quest for "more power!" had for poor Tim and his family and friends.

As bad as those consequences were, they'll be nothing compared to the consequences of the government's quest, consequences that we the people will face. The more I think about it, the more I realize that the possibility of a second civil war to take back our country is not the worst we face. I'd far prefer that to living in The People's Socialist Republic of the United States of America.

May God have mercy on us all for the stupidity of the majority who elected that communist son of a bitch.