Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

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

Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.