And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
BEN STEINI’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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I don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
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I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
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People getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
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We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
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Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
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