Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.

Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. I listen to NPR: "World to end-poor and minorities hardest hit." I like to argue with the radio.

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.