Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do.

The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.