Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

The truly free market is the worker's best friend.