Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.

One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery, women from exploitation. Businesses can be started, homes built, communities formed, religions practiced, educations pursued. But liberals aren't very interested in such real and material freedoms. They have a more innocent - not to say toddlerlike - idea of freedom. Liberals want the freedom to put anything into their mouths, to say bad words and to expose their private parts in art museums.

Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, "By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater," and we say, "Your point is?"

Mike Kelly [from The Atlantic] called me up and said he could pay me less money.

Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.