The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely project meaningful force to their own borders while the nickel 'n' dime basket-cases go nuclear.

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