Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
P. J. O'ROURKEI don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.
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I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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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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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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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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The most brilliant satire of all time was ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift. You’ll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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