All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
P. J. O'ROURKETerm limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.
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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow… he wasn’t evil or anything, but he was worthless.
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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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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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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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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I’ve been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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