So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do.

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side

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

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.