You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.