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

Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.

ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.

I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because their leaders were afraid of the word unilateral.

However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.

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

How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?