When I was a kid, you could buy most of these types of components at a store called Radio Shack. It was a walking distance from my house.

When you're disappointed in your elected representative, remember three forces may shape their decisions: Previous moral compromise. Threats against their family. Or greed — wealth one could never have earned honestly. Even the Magna Carta was signed under threat. This is just bare-knuckle politics. Power has always worked this way.

Make sure you're not being screwed by someone that doesn't even have insurance or the means to actually pay you. If you can, let your insurance work it out.

I'm already against the next bombing.

Amen. Rights proceed government and persists despite it.

Free peoples must cooperate to defend their rights, or they will lose them. Citizens must use whatever liberties remain to reclaim their rights and recover their freedom.