The most brilliant satire of all time was ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift. You’ll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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It’s better to make fun of yourself because you’ve always got someone around to make fun of, and they can’t sue you.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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Global warming is a fact. Now it’s up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
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