A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.