If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.

Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

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

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.