A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.

Even if her children or grandchildren are willing to spend their own money to keep grandma alive, when bureaucrats control the necessary technology or medication they may decide that it is not for sale.

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.

It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.