Mr. Washington said, "Government is like fire - an uncertain servant and a fearful master," but he missed the essence. At its core, governance boils down to two questions: "Who says?" and "Who pays?"

There aren't any really poor people in America.

This year's episode of Civility Strikes Back relates to the baggy-pants half-moon.

If we're going to talk about "nation building," it would be extremely helpful to define the word "nation."

A great deal of the disunity between Bin Laden and America is based on differing perceptions of how men and women ought to get along. It's difficult to reconcile his view of women with American customs.

Why are we allowing an Islamic public school, teaching intifada, in New York City? Don't we already have enough terrorists?

Mr. Cho's victims' families shouldn't be suing Virginia Tech; all it would accomplish is to enrich greedly lawyers while doing nothing useful.

We need an inheritance tax to periodically level the playing field so that new businesses can continue to grow our economy.

Every June, schools send the social security numbers of all their graduates to the IRS. Every May, after tax season, the IRS adds up all the taxes paid by all the graduates of each school and tells everybody the average amount paid...

The only common purpose powerful enough to build a nation is greed.