W. James Antle III is the Washington Examiner's politics editor. He was previously managing editor of the Daily Caller, associate editor of the American Spectator and senior writer for the American Conservative. He is the author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped? In his work Antle often examines the addition both parties have made to bigger spending, bigger government programs, bigger intrusion into our lives and bigger dependency on the nanny state, and explains how an ever-expanding government inevitably leads to less prosperity, less independence, less ingenuity, less growth, and far less liberty.