Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous.

There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?