Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
P. J. O'ROURKE
P. J. O'ROURKE
P. J. O'Rourke on climate
“Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.”
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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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P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that’s when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
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