From Sullivan's guest blogger, Daniel:

Over the next few days, alongside all the other stuff, I hope to introduce you to some of the best things on the British blogging and journalism scene. But if I'm going to do that it seems only fair if I start with 10 things I love about America:

1. Loaded potato skins
2. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
3. Walt Disney
4. The fact that almost everyone you meet in America is incredibly polite
5. The fact that almost everyone you meet in New York isn't
6. The West Wing
7. Martin Luther King
8. The steaks at Morton's
9. The Manhattan Institute
10. The fact that you send your children across the world to risk their lives for liberty and spend billions of your dollars on it, even though the people whose liberty you are saving, including my fellow Europeans, don't say thank you properly

Here are mine:

1. The melting pot
2. Religious freedom
3. Washington DC
4. Women's rights
5. Bloggers, and the freedom to blog
6. The rule of law
7. Public TV and Radio
8. Independent Book Stores
9. Travelling state to state without a passport
10. America's version of Mexican, Italian, Thai, Indian, Chinese, etc. etc. food