I am only at home in the present.
GORE VIDALThe Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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