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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

P. J. O'Rourke

Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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Anything Cat never Panic Wear
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Atomic Bed Big Bomb Century Idea Test
Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
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Fault Invent Liberal Major Psychology Sociology Study Women
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Annoyance Conundrum Necessary Politics
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Restaurant Review Start Student
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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Behind Civil Downfall Government Importance Local State Treat War
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.
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Black Church Classical English People Preach Scheme Speak Troop
The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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Better Body Forever Lesson Often Older Presence Sort Teach Thing
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Cater Communist Country Hate People Person
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it’s simply a measurement.
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Bathroom Market None People Philosophy Scale Thing Think Those
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Government Human Nature Need
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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East Everybody Explain Middle Right
There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Horizon Many Toledo Tree
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Bad Change Done Sometimes
Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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Creep Economy Enfeeble Evil Image Individual Law Rule
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text.
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Bell Flower Occupy Person Pocket Search Small Vase

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