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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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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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