A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.
When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, “We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That’s why I’m going to abandon all my objections and agree with you”?
There is no – let me repeat – no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.
In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren’t worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don’t have a clue what they’re doing.
Public unions are the country’s foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.
The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.
John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that’s a bit juvenile.
Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.
The Founders understood that democracy was important, but if you didn’t filter it through a republican system you’d be just as likely to end up with a tyranny of the majority as you would with a healthy society. Don’t worry, I won’t quote the Federalist Papers, but trust me, it’s in there.
Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings.
I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot...
Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don’t matter.
And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won’t admit that’s what they’re doing.
Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.
And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it’s progressive.
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.