Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.

Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

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.