... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby".

Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbors that they recognize those facts. I have personally followed and supported Israel's heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel's population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.

Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one poor - both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division?

I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.

Hayek is amongst the top 2-3 of the all the people who ever influenced me.