Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think about the things that have improved our lives the most over the past century - medical advances, the transportation revolution, huge increases in consumer goods, dramatic improvements in housing, the computer. The people who created these things - the doers - are not popular heroes. Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers.

There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?