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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

Timothy Noah

Commitment

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

" Universities are basically socialist institutions. "

" The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn't only a function of geography. It's also sociological. Indeed, it's probably not much of an exaggeration to say that Maryland suburbanites and Virginia suburbanites constitute two mutually hostile tribes. "

" Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority. "

" Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President George W. Bush. "

" Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke. "

" 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. "

" The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet. "

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

Timothy Noah

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

" 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. "

" Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies. "

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

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

" One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil. "

" Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. "

" 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. "

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

Timothy Noah

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" I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression. "

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

" The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative. "

" Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country. "

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

" If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves. "

" No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. "

" One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations. "

" 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. "

" We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much. "

" Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so. "