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This “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.

Bill Moyers

America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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Country Cutting Direction One
I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Jobs People Trying
If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
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Bark Basements Supposed
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
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Corporate Health Mercenaries Revolving Under Women
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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Government Long Running
This “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
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Degenerate Governance Politics Seminal
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creative Creativity Piercings
Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
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Believe Thinking Winning
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
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Freedom Hands Writing
Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn’t eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents.
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Children Long People
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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Charity Circumstances Commitment Personal Wealth
I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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Approach Joined Journalism Strong
What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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Causes Doe Fighting
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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Journalism Libel Mistakes
The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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Gorges Unyielding War

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