To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.

In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.

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

The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that the left has spawned. That the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of discrimination, has disintegrated in the wake of the liberal welfare states is only one example.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

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

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.