Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?

Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.' But of course governments do not ask, they: tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not 'ask' for contributions. It takes.

Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.

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.

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

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.