The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.