Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors alike toward greater accountability and transparency. It lifts people out of poverty, and while it can force unsettling changes on a society, those changes prove to be worthwhile in a very short time.

But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.