This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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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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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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