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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System

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