When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband and wife. The law cannot make it so, it can only require us to paint pretty pictures to cover up deep truths embedded in human nature.