Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.

To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation.