You can’t shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
What's important about morality in politics is us. We own the chicken farm. We must give our bird-brained, feather-headed politicians morals. Politicians love to think of themselves as free-range but...
We common folk may not be able to match Trump’s piggy bank, but even the most high-minded and charitable among us can match his piggishness.
Twenty-five years from now all religion will be fundamentalist religion, even the Church of England. Wild-eyed Tutuist Anglicans will riot in Anzania (formerly the Union of South Africa). They’ll forc...
There's a joke people tell in the Soviet Union: Mitterrand, Bush and Gorbachev have a meeting with God. Mitterrand says, 'My country faces many difficult problems-- lagging exports, Muslim minorities,...
The web is just a device by which bad ideas travel around the globe at the speed of light.
The free market tells us what people are willing to pay for a given thing at a given moment. That’s all the free market does. The free market is a bathroom scale. We may not like what we see when we s...
The free market is the greatest repository of our freedoms. Economic freedom is the freedom we exercise most often and to the greatest extent.
Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal instit...
Indeed, it costs more. CNN reports that Hillary and Bill collected $153 million in speaking fees between 2001 and 2015. Ken Starr, according to the Government Accounting Office, spent only $6.2 millio...
Fretting makes us important. Say you're an adult male and you're skipping down the street whistling Last Train to Clarksville. People will call you a fool. But lean over to the person next to you on a...
Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as moder...
You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity. And forget traditional character assassination; if you say a modern celebrity is...
When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?
Trump’s grandfather, a German immigrant, changed the family name from Drumpf to Trump.
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity. And no virtue in advocating it. A politician who commends himself as caring and sensitive because he wants to expand the government’s charitable pr...
The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important,...
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.