The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events.

On Michael Moore TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.

The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. No one is fond of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider how much you'd have to hate free will to come up with a political platform that advocates killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A callous pragmatist might favor abortion and capital punishment. A devout Christian would sanction neither. But it takes years of therapy to arrive at the liberal view.

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.