Global warming is a fact. Now it’s up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.
P. J. O'ROURKEGlobal warming is a fact. Now it’s up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.
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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I’m not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry – knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it’s simply a measurement.
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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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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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