What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're not talking about poverty in a day when it meant not enough bedrooms for the kids, an old car, a black and white television. We're talking about a whole world where poverty meant not enough to eat.

I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.

The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes.

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.