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" Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around. "

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

" Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it. "

" The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free. "

" 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. "

" The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago. "

" Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative. "

" Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense. "

" On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details. "

" If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned. "

" Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable. "

" The thing to strive for is to get paid to talk about yourself. "

" The $100 bill may be America's most successful export. "

" What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say. "

" Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you. "

" 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. "

" When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist. "

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

" In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it. "

" I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama. "

" What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience. "

" Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs. "

" Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance. "

" The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich. "

" There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods. "

" I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy. "

" I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't. "

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

" Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself. "

" Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery. "