Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God’s grace.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.
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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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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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As a former writer for the ‘National Lampoon,’ I’ve probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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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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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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It’s better to make fun of yourself because you’ve always got someone around to make fun of, and they can’t sue you.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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