Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.

An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a stolen gun faster than you can get your car washed.' He also points out that many criminals prefer guns gotten illegally, since they will be harder to trace.

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.