With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.
Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.
Universities are basically socialist institutions.
The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.
The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.
You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas.
No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.
Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes.
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.
The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined.
The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off.
It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.
Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you.
We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.
Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.
Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.
If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves.
For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.
The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value.
It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
