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

No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

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

Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white applicants were turned down for mortgage loans. A substantial majority of both black and white mortgage loan applicants had their loans approved but a statistical difference was enough to get a bank sued.