The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

People who thing that they are getting something for nothing, by having government provide what they would otherwise have to buy in the private market, are not only kidding themselves by ignoring the taxes that government has to take from them in order to give them the appearance of something for nothing.

One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.

You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.