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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow… he wasn’t evil or anything, but he was worthless.

P. J. O'Rourke

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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Elite Gutter Homeless Park Person Place Say
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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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Black People Reformer Some Think Voter
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
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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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
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Classroom Problem Public School Underfund Union
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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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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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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Big Country Fundamental Ideas Question
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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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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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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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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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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Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
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