People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

By the end of the 20th century, "liberals" had again discredited themselves, to the point where they went back to calling themselves "progressives" to escape their past, much as people do when they declare bankruptcy.

The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.