It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.

Much of the Constitution is remarkably simple and straightforward - certainly as compared to the convoluted reasoning of judges and law professors discussing what is called 'Constitutional law,' much of which has no basis in that document....The real question [for judicial nominees] is whether that nominee will follow the law or succumb to the lure of 'a living constitution,' 'evolving standards' and other lofty words meaning judicial power to reshape the law to suit their own personal preferences.

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility.