And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
AL FRANKENBut when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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