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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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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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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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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Act Finding Force National Police
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression

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