If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.
There’s nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.
Today’s unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they’re hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.
Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.
The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.
Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush’s tax cuts, which makes as much sense as blaming the rising price of fairy dust. But as a wise man once asked, Who gives a rat’s patoot what Joe Biden thinks?
Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don’t.
Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.
Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse’s Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse’s Phone.
The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
Liberals are Nazis, and Nazis are liberals. And if you don’t agree with me, you’re a Nazi too.
Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan’s endorsement – it might be useful but it doesn’t necessarily speak well of you.
Our country, if you read the ‘Federalist Papers,’ is about disagreement. It’s about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob – not the mob itself.
If you spend any time in Washington you’ll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems – systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
Of course, it’s a mystery to me why any American who can’t be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.
The white male is the Jew of liberal fascism.
Government money only pays for the “liberties” the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.
I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.
Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he’s lecturing us about how America’s gone “soft”? Really?