People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.

Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.

The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?