Economics are part of our life. We try to treat them separately, like over there is the economy and here is history. Econ affects history and history often doesn't get it right if it doesn't respect econ.

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with.

Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget.

In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.