No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.

Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far.

The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.

Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under Sharia law.

One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.

As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.