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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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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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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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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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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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