Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his successor, presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. The second is that he's trying to pad his legacy. The third is that he's trying to 'troll' or bait the GOP into debating his agenda rather than pursuing its own. All are plausible, and none necessarily contradicts the others.

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

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

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

Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.