No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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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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Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It’s a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn’t mean it doesn’t have plenty of absurdities.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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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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Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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