There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
P. J. O'ROURKEIf you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
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America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
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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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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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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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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It’s a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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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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Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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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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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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