Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being ‘hegemonistic’, of engaging in ‘unilateralism’, of behaving as if we’re the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State’s registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they’re going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can’t understand what they say.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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