I'm not anti-immigration.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.