Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.

The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea