Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring.

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

My mother always texts me saying 'Fighting! Do well, my handsome son!'.

All things considered, there is only Matisse.

I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.

Your faith depends on the strength of its object...a puny god just won't do.