China's masters are starting to act like they care about ordinary Chinese. Quite a new leaf for Communists.

It's simply common sense that the nicer a life you have if you don't work, the more people will choose not to work and the pickier they will be about what job they might be willing to accept.

You'd expect there to be a decreasing number of polar bears out there. You'd be wrong.

Any financial adviser will tell you to keep two months' salary in the bank in case of an unforeseen disaster. Shouldn't the country?

They were "only following orders"...

Judges which rule based on feelings rather than the law, cause unintended consequences quite the opposite of what they wanted.

There are many places around the world where we should "Do Something!"

When the paper is not to their liking, bureaucracies tend to have hissy-fits and throw their weight around.

Hillary and Obama might just as well walk down the street throwing rocks into people's living rooms.

The NSF was chartered to fund basic scientific research, it was not chartered to extend affirmative action to the sciences.