People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot.

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child care more than by lifting the heavy burden of taxation that forces so many families to have both parents working.

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

History is the memory of a nation