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" The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members. "
Timothy Noah
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" Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war. "
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" The thing to strive for is to get paid to talk about yourself. "
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" It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all. "
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" 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. "
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" The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. "
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" The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country. "
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" Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom. "
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" Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. "
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" Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it. "
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" Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke. "
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" The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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