Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying away from 'creative' and risky financing. It is amazing how fast people learn when they are not insulated from the consequences of their decisions.

Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.