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.

The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.

A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."

In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?