Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

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

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

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