The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.