It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.

People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.

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.

Barack Obama's vision of America is one in which a President of the United States can fire the head of General Motors, tell banks how to bank, control the medical system and take charge of all sorts of other activities for which neither he nor other politicians have any expertise or experience.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.