The Trust doesn't answer to anybody anymore. They don't even have to be right.

Armed citizens make it a bit harder to do evil.

The secret of safety was and is crime prevention, not crime investigation.

A nation has to be unified enough that people want to share a government.

Never ascribe to hostility what can be explained by stupidity.

It would be a very good idea to have a standard system for maintaining health care records, but having the government spend money on this is a bad idea.

These bridges have needed fixing for 25 years and they're still operating?

A chain of progression - one leads to the next, then the next...

There's no simple cure for loneliness, but there is a simple answer to the #2 question, "Why are men such couch potatoes?" What does a man want more of that he could have more of if he were in better shape?

Will there be unity in Iraq? Saddam proved that fear can unite Iraqis enough to get them to stop killing each other, but it's not clear that anything less will do the job.