When the family dies, the nation follows.

Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and if it's going to bankrupt the state a generation hence, well, as long as they can keep the checks coming till he's dead, it's fine by him.

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.

The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.

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