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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.
Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.
A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.
Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.
You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.
In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.
All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.
Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
We'll run this planet as we please, and if you don't like it, go back where we came from.
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter.
I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.
There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.
The real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power.
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.
In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
I've decided that my motto in life is "Get off my lawn." It's the right answer to everything.
I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.
Stay away from girls who cry a lot or who look like they get pregnant easily or have careers.