There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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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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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Maybe 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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Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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