Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.

Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.

We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.

It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.

Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others.

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.