A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

If politics were like sports, we could ask Israel to trade us Benjamin Netanyahu for Barack Obama. Of course, we would have to throw in trillions of dollars to get Israel to agree to the deal, but it would be money well spent.

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.

You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don't have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay for it.

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

Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police - as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.