Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.

Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians’ fingerprints on the murder weapon.

How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?