Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.