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I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don’t think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.

Gene Weingarten

One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
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Kitten Murder Preparation
Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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Awful Loser Trump
Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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Journalist Stuff Worst
The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?
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Cynical Intelligent People
America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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America Country Thinking
I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.
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Marcos Revealing Thinking
I think politics is everything.
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Everything Politics Thinking
Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
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Constitution Court House Supreme
I don’t think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don’t think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.
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Atheist Hate Sorry
Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.
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Change Greatest Many Won
You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don’t care much about Kuwait.
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Care Democracy Support
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it’s hard. If you think it’s not hard, you’re not doing it right.
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One Thing Thinking Writing
Trump cannot change because in his mind, he has ALWAYS been rewarded for his boorish, stupid, arrogant behavior.
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Arrogant Mind Stupid
I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
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Decision Important Thinking
Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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Faults Hostile Trump
It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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Order Sides Steak

I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don’t think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.

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I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don’t think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.

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