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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

P. J. O'Rourke

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Business Cancer Country Nice Place Show Southern Spread
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Achieve Attempt Merit Politics Power Prestige
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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Brilliant Everything Midwest Most Notice Proposal Satire Straightforward Time
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Irritate Let More Nuisance Other President
Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
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Attempt Believe Hypocrite Man Moral President Redistribute
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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Broken Interest Like More Paint Person Place Probably Sensible
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of ‘I hate strangers and anything that’s different.’
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Anything Conservatism Different Form Hate Matter Stranger Worse
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Again Born Cow Dairy Hunt Make Scope
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Balck Believe Country Despite People Vehemently
You’re stupid,’ is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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Critics Most President Serve Something Stupid Usually
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
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Alcohol Anyway Fundamental Look Source Tets Trouble
You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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Going Hundred Nation Nine Page Read Reality Wealth
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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Best Bought Guy Happen Journalism People Person Popular Thing Wonderful
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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Appeal Effective Itself Organization Powerful Response Right Social Sometimes
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Another Brief Death History Impeach National Out President Thousand Worry

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