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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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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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College Seriousness Stupiditym Sent
Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Election Explosion Positive Right Started
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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Country Else Government Idea Prefer Sensible Somebody
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
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the ’70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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Divorce Prior Rate Reason Relation Seventy Until Veen
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Endless Foreigner God Lousy Politics Right Wrong
You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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Critics Most President Serve Something Stupid Usually
You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Give Money People Poverty Rid
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Country Government Make Mystery People Stop
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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Answer History Human Humor Literacy Obligation Probably Provide Under
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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Anything Conservatism Different Form Hate Matter Stranger Worse
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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Around Brown Country Dog Everything Except House Kid Look
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Irritate Let More Nuisance Other President
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 perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
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Carry Country Crow Exile Extermination Law Passage Perpetuation Savery
A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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Big Country Fundamental Ideas Question

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