Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.

What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

The real minimum wage is zero.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.