At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.

You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.

To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.

Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.

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.