How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.

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

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.

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.'