Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
P. J. O'ROURKEPolitics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
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The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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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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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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The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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