You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
P. J. O'ROURKEThe importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don’t draft people; it’s not jury duty.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I’m not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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