I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.

We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous.

Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.

The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue.

The US health-care system is a complete scandal. It's got twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes.

I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity.

The shutdown itself is bad but not devastating. The real danger will come up in a couple of weeks. There's legislation which is in fact routine - it's passed every year - which allows the government to borrow money, otherwise it can't function. If Congress does not approve this budget request, the government may have to default.