The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

[ I'm] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things.