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" Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.' "
David Harsanyi
Dead
Watching
Nothing
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" Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw even more. I assumed when I got to Colorado, the Wild West, there would be a rejection of such intrusive legislation. I was wrong. "
David Harsanyi
Wild
My Life
Life
" 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.' "
David Harsanyi
Children
Knowledge
Thinking
" Now, I do not, on any level, possess the expertise to argue about the science of anthropological global warming. Nor do you, most likely. This certainly doesn't mean an average citizen has the duty to do the lock step. "
David Harsanyi
Duty
Citizen
Now
" Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it. "
David Harsanyi
Democracy
Wonder
Thinking
" Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte. "
David Harsanyi
Now
Chance
Great
" Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism. "
David Harsanyi
Fear
More
Nothing
" 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. "
David Harsanyi
Explain
Compass
Problem
" Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger. "
David Harsanyi
People
World
Faith
" 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. "
David Harsanyi
Healthy
Government
Worry
" The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal clashes with evil. "
David Harsanyi
Bible
Evil
Human
" A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike. "
David Harsanyi
Ride
True
Air
" If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer. "
David Harsanyi
Penny
Become
Poorer
" It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy. "
David Harsanyi
Believing
Fall
Policy
" Progressivism is the belief that we have too much freedom with which to make too many stupid choices. "
David Harsanyi
Belief
Stupid
Much
" If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing. "
David Harsanyi
Then
Like
Failing
" You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive. "
David Harsanyi
Get
Done
You
" You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral and unhealthy for society. "
David Harsanyi
You
Earth
Focus
" A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo. "
David Harsanyi
Government
You
Money
" The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines. "
David Harsanyi
Deepest
Know
Mystery
" 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. "
David Harsanyi
Democracy
Washington
Chance
" Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives. "
David Harsanyi
Reward
Success
Process
" Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy. "
David Harsanyi
Torture
Evil
More
" If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined 'progress.' "
David Harsanyi
Day
Ideas
Win
" A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable. "
David Harsanyi
God
Rules
Without
" Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level. "
David Harsanyi
Most
Level
Initiatives
" 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. "
David Harsanyi
Care
Health
Quality
" Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe. "
David Harsanyi
Democracy
Believe
Morals
" Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am. "
David Harsanyi
Sick
You
Tired
" 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.' "
David Harsanyi
Best
Fix
Stop
" For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous. "
David Harsanyi
Me
Both
Washington