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" President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong. "

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

" In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them. "

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

" GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never, ever to cut entitlements. "

" Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse. "

" The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off. "

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

" Capitalism can't deliver decent health care. "

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

" 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. "

" Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted. "

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

" The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way. "

" Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines. "

" Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama. "

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