The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think about the things that have improved our lives the most over the past century - medical advances, the transportation revolution, huge increases in consumer goods, dramatic improvements in housing, the computer. The people who created these things - the doers - are not popular heroes. Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.

Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.