Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day

the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on the theory that they should live surrounded by the finest stuff. The Mall of America is built on the premise that we should all be able to afford this stuff. It may be a shallow culture, but it's by-God democratic. Sneer if you dare; this is something new in world history.

Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.