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

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.

The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.

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

When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York.