Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation.

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes