Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them.

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.