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Last week, GOP chairman Michael Steele came under fire for daring to say what a lot of Americans already know — that our involvement in Afghanistan is an ill-advised quagmire with no end in sight. After nearly 10 years and approaching $1 trillion spent, the conflict is going nowhere because there is nowhere for it to go. After all, if victory is never really defined, defeat is inevitable.

Last week I was pleased to see my Republican colleagues take up the cause to fully and completely audit the Federal Reserve by including my language from the Federal Reserve Transparency Act in a Motion to Recommit the financial regulation reform bill. Although this effort was defeated by the Democrat majority, there were many good reasons to support it.The Federal Reserve Transparency Act would eliminate restrictions on GAO audits of the Federal Reserve and open Fed operations to Congressional oversight. Additionally, audits could include discount window operations, open market operations, and agreements with foreign central banks, such as the ongoing dollar swap operations with European central banks.

That star-spangled banner no longer waves over the land of the free and the home of the brave. The banner is still there, of course, but the freedom and the bravery are long gone.What remains today is a thinly veiled police state which has, over the past century, adopted some of the worst elements of both fascism and socialism in a unique American blend which, while it still retains a few of the old formalities of a freer society, is steadily losing them, until one day you will finally wake up to find that we are once again in bondage, with no idea how you got there.

Although the “conservative” pop media hasn’t paid it any attention, Faisal Shahzad, the man who admits trying to kill people in Times Square, NYC with a truck bomb, has explained why he made the attempt, and why more terrorists will try to kill innocent Americans.In his criminal trial (which is open to reporters, as opposed to the military commissions so many statists want to use for trials of terrorism suspects), Shahzad said that if the US government continues to meddle in Mideast affairs, there will me more killings.