Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail' is simply another set of loft words to justify continued expansion of government spending. So are words like 'investment in education' or 'investment' in any number of other things, which serves the same political purpose.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.

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

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.