Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely.

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

It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.