Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.

Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.

Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.

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."

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.