But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?.

The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people..

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything..

Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpos….

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?.

If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem here ….

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it..

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it..

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you ca….

The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 empl….

When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax..

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing..

Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New Yor….

The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it w….

It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional..

LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right..

If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country..

Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy me….

Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent….

I believe Western culture - rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. - is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandi….

There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up ….