I have nothing against rich people. In fact, I've been struggling most of my life to join them.

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.

The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit.

School choice opponents are also dishonest when they speak of saving public schools. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 47 percent of House members and 51 percent of senators with school-age children enrolled them in private schools in 2001. Public school teachers enroll their children in private schools to a much greater extent than the general public, in some cities close to 50 percent.

Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.

"Cap and trade" is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true.

Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.