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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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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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Difficult Discipline Parent Properly Size
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Adept Avoid Even Learn More Young
Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let’s hope so.
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Better Boomer Generation Hope Millennial Run
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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Greet Hat Lady Nothing Off Stupid Taken
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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Give Government Money Poer Teenage Whiskey
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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Behaviour Drunk Ever Holiday New Proper Season Yera
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Irritate Let More Nuisance Other President
Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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Everybody Everything Happy Idea Insane Law Liberal
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Alcohol Anyway Fundamental Look Source Tets Trouble
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.
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Done Endless Foreigner God Like Lousy Party Politics School Some Thing Wrong
When you’re a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, ‘Gee, I wouldn’t want to be doing that.’ They’re on your side.
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Correspondent Do Person Reader Say That Want
When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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Elite Gutter Homeless Park Person Place Say
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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Better Average Citizen Country French Monkey Smallish
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Affair Force Great Human Stupid
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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Association Card Country Desire Down Editor Green People Turn
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
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Administration Attack Country Gun Hell Nut President Religious

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