What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.'

The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up the black family. Today, just slightly over 30 percent of black kids live in two-parent families. Historically, from the 1870s on. . . 75-90 percent of black kids lived in two-parent families.

If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

Why, in our "free" country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.