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The budget doesn’t have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn’t have much control over the budget.

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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Buy Control First Legislator Sell Sold
Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
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Cash Change Climate Climatologist Matter Maybe Research Threat Troll
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Collapse Daily False Industry Journalism Memory Print
There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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More Much Outside Print Room View
The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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Best Bright Brightest Goldman Politics
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There’s more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it’s awfully close to human.
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Adaptively Computer Little Native Odd Science Seem Social Society Strange
Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Black People Reformer Some Think Voter
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
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Children Everybody Except Know People Raise
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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Cleanliness Godliness Important More Unlikely
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it’s got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It’s not pretty. But it’s striking, I’ll give it that. It’s not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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Actual City Country Give Kind Nearly Over Pretty Strik Top
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Belt Cigarette Government Hazard Helth Kill Many More People Set
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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Better Human Method Mistrust Resign Science Validity Work
The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Average Beauty Citizen Democracy Lead Random Unremarkable
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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Independent New Poll Registered Republican Unreliable
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Bad Family Love Messy Pattern Wallpaper

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