Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.

Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.

Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do not hesitate to make sweeping pronouncements about the economy in general, businesses in particular, and the many issues revolving around what is called 'income distribution'.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the three branches of the national government but also separated as between the whole national government, on the one hand, and the states and the people on the other.

To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.