Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
AL FRANKENI got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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