I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
P. J. O'ROURKEMaybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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As a former writer for the ‘National Lampoon,’ I’ve probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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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 importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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