As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.

In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.