In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American could make more money than 93 percent of the other people on the planet and still be considered poor.

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.

Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.