You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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