Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.

Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others.

Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.