However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.

The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.

Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.

What makes it possible for politicians to do so many things that are economically counterproductive is that neither the public nor the media know enough of the basics to understand what's wrong with what they're saying.