Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

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

Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to do too much damage to the world or ourselves.

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.