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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let’s hope so.

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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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Draw Exceptional Happiness History Human Island Litle Peace Point Prosperity Sure
If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.
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Economic Hour Language People Place Political Seventy Social Spend Talk Two
New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State’s registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they’re going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can’t understand what they say.
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Independent New Poll Registered Republican Unreliable
I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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Carpenter Make Stop Terrible Thing Wood
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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East Everybody Explain Middle Right
You can’t destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America’s elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you’re doing us a favor.
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Country Detroit Down Elite History Think
Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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Dosproven Fact Mindless Opinion People Some
There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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More Much Outside Print Room View
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Again Born Cow Dairy Hunt Make Scope
The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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Behave Four Go Look Normal Reverse Ring Three Weider
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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Bote Careless Conceal Every Bote Harmful Number Serial Trace Vote
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Balck Believe Country Despite People Vehemently
I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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Dangerm Charm Meet Personal Politician Rare
Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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Create Hazard Morale Regulation
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Government Illegal Product Sell
Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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Just Mean Plenty Serious Subject

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