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" Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work. "

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" Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word. "

" Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president. "

" Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. "

" Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country. "

" When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet. "

" Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts. "

" If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education. "

" The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over. "

" The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn't only a function of geography. It's also sociological. Indeed, it's probably not much of an exaggeration to say that Maryland suburbanites and Virginia suburbanites constitute two mutually hostile tribes. "

" Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no? "

" The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis. "

" We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story. "

" Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority. "

" There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases. "

" The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely. "

" Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality. "

" Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure. "

" Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all. "

" The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain. "

" The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. "

" The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined. "

" With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation. "

" Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth. "

" Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes. "

" Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.' "

" What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress. "

" Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so. "

" I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive. "

" The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about. "

" Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands. "