Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

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

No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in order to meet government-set goals for more home ownership. Those lower mortgage lending standards are at the heart of the increased riskiness of the mortgage market and of the collapse of Wall Street securities based on those risky mortgages.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?

In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.

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