France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups, he has in a more fundamental sense concealed the real goal - getting judges who will ratify an ever-expanding scope of the power of the federal government and an ever-declining restraint by the Constitution of the United States. This is consistent with everything else that Obama has done in office and is consistent with his decades-long track record of alliances with people who reject the fundamentals of American society.