Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.
These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.
Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.
He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.
Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad.
These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.
Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.
Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.
For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.
The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.
The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.
