Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
AL FRANKENPeople who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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