How to achieve more of this?

• A couple of good posts over at Cafe Hayek about Barney Frank and an adult conversation on the budget.

• Fred Thompson has a quote of the day nominee while Megan McArdle declares one of Barack Obama's utterances to be quote of the decade.

• Ezra Klein concedes the honesty of Rep. Paul Ryan's alternative budget proposal.

• Mark Perry on taxes and economic recovery during the Great Depression.

• Scott Lincicome on the right way and the wrong way to increase exports.