Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.

Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not.

Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don't have to go to Planned Parenthood to get your cholesterol or your blood pressure checked. If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

Politicians must pick sides regularly; every time they vote. So it's perhaps natural that they see the world as a battle between competing groups.

It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.

It seems that immigrants often have a special understanding of the incredible opportunities that this nation affords its citizens.

The Reagan years showed us that expanding economic freedom should be the North Star - the guiding light - of U.S. policy, because it is the best way to achieve sustained and broad-based prosperity for all.