Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
P. J. O'ROURKENo doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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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 people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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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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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God’s grace.
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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 Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that’s when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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