I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
BARNEY FRANKI think there were two criticisms you can make of Donald Trump’s involvement in the Health Care Bill. First of all, there were times when he wasn’t being helpful. Secondly, there were times when he was trying to be helpful. I’m not sure which one did more damage.
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They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who’s getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn’t know how to promote homosexuality.
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The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
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For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.
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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed – for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late ’50s, early ’60s – that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
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It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
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