Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy’s players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group’s good, instead of the common good.

Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy – in other words, what’s happening now.

To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn’t do things it cannot do well – anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don’t like.

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that’s why we call them ‘lawless.’

The government doesn’t create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.

With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don’t think it’s far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.