Ideas Matter. Legislative Proposals Matter. Slick Campaigns

American Public Opinion, As You Can See In The Polls, Radically Changed From Being Against Airstrikes To Being Heavily In Favor That [president Obama] Decided To Do Airstrikes. This Is A Classic Example Of Leading From Behind Where He Waits For Public Opinion. And Now It's The Public Who's Demanding He Do Something.

I Think The First Thing Is To Recognize A Mistake That Obama Made. And Others Have Made In Thinking That You Can Revolutionize A System That's Unbelievably Complex And Interlinked, One-sixth Of The Economy. That Was A Mistake Because Whenever You Change One Thing, It Changes 80 Other Things, And Now If You're Changing Everything At Once, You Have No Idea What The Outcome Is Going To Be And You Get All Of These Unintended Side Effects.

The Results Of The Great Society Experiments Started Coming In And Began Showing That, For All Its Good Intentions, The War On Poverty Was Causing Irreparable Damage To The Very Communities It Was Designed To Help.

Science Has Everything To Say About What Is Possible. Science Has Nothing To Say About What Is Permissible.

Torture Is An Impermissible Evil. Except Under Two Circumstances. The First Is The Ticking Time Bomb. An Innocent's Life Is At Stake. The Bad Guy You Have Captured Possesses Information That Could Save This Life. He Refuses To Divulge. In Such A Case, The Choice Is Easy.