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Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.
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Moving Overboard Predator Standing
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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Afternoon House Limit Term
In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?
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Mind Police Tracking War
Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions – the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who’d rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
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Country Law Men President Strong
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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Government Long Running
Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
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Blue Fighting Nuts
What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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Believe Heart Need People
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Pages Reflection Television
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Fighting Lying Media
Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Fields Interesting Men
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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Students Teacher Teaching
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
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Corporate Health Mercenaries Revolving Under Women
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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Issues Mean Revolutionary Ideas
I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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Angry Bears Country

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