There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.

From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual in the range and effectiveness of methods employed to restrain freedom of thought... Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things.

Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare.

The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system.

In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language, and to which every language necessarily conforms.

On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.