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" Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger. "

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" Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.' "

" Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only affects responsible adults who follow the law. "

" Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists who want to craft public policy around global warming fears. "

" Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am. "

" Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved. "

" My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives. "

" You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive. "

" Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.' "

" Progressivism is the belief that we have too much freedom with which to make too many stupid choices. "

" It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington. "

" Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy. "

" For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous. "

" It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.' "

" A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo. "

" Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy. "

" If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing. "

" Whether you're a believer or not, a flawed biblical epic is going to be more entertaining than a remake of a Paul Verhoeven movie or some third-rate sci-fi flick. "

" I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing. "

" Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe. "

" A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable. "

" The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsing x. "

" Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse. "

" You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn't. "

" Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society. "

" A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving. "

" The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly. "

" Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level. "

" Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism. "

" We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending. "

" In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination. "