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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.

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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
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
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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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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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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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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