Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad.