My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.

People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.