How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel?

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the "be all and end all".

Life is to short to hate someone or give a damn about someone

I rise with every sunrise.

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

Don't you dare hit me in the head, you know I'm not normal!

I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.

You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.

I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.

All I'm really concerned with is doing my thing.