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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.

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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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Bay Country Effect Small Tribe
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
You can’t destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America’s elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you’re doing us a favor.
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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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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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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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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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Big Country Fundamental Ideas Question
Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Edit Simply Surrender
I 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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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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Again Budget Control Government Much Over
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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Come Creep Duty Enfeeble Evil Human Law Plan Rule
Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Everybody Extent Xenophobia
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 good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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Anything Cat never Panic Wear

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