High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.

Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.

A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?

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.

The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by 'society'.