Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

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

The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.

Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But our enemies have already made that choice. Retired Marine Corps General James Mattis said: “No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it's over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote“.

Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the same politicians are now carrying on a crusade for 'affordable health care.' But what you can afford has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of producing anything. Refusing to pay those costs means that you are just not going to continue getting the same quantity and quality - regardless of what any politician says or how well he says it.