Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
P. J. O'ROURKEA hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.
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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Don’t send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.
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The baby boomers’ politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there’s been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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A humorist doesn’t really do that much note-taking.
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The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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