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" In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death. "

Timothy Noah

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" If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care. "

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

" To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you'd have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy. "

" The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change. "

" 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. "

" Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all. "

" Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support. "

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

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" Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible. "

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

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

" The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members. "

" To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts. "

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" 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. "

" You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas. "

" What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university. "

" We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls. "

" The financial services industry is a ward of the state. "

" A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government. "

" Capitalism can't deliver decent health care. "

" The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will be in the minority, and when that happens we'll want to block the other side's extremist agenda.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland. "

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" The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that. "

" Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain. "