True poverty is a lack of freedom to make your own choices.

AIG's troubles are not entirely their fault; paying the bonuses is actually in the taxpayers' best interest.

The taxpayers profit not only from paying the AIG bonuses, but from hoping that they're even bigger next year.

Our government has finally taken an effective step to deal with our ever-expanding pension liabilities.

Our government is trying to regulate all risk out of our investment system. Unfortunately, the only way to get rid of risk is to get rid of profit.

Government subsidies for solar power result in our paying a lot more for electricity.

American parents have had ultimate responsibility and ultimate authority to bring up their children. Government now claims ultimate authority over children.

Obama's appointees are all getting into trouble because they abused power that shouldn't belong to government in the first place.

Obama must decide whether to sentence thousands of black children to a life of ignorance and poverty.

Illegal immigration harms mostly blacks. Obama should do them a favor and stop it.