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" The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.' "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story. "

" If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it. "

" The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. "

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

" I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't. "

" 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. "

" There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods. "

" 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 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. "

" What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress. "

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

" The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition. "

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

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" We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts. "

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

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

" Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth. "

" The thing to strive for is to get paid to talk about yourself. "

" Working people vote! "

" 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. "

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

" Universities are basically socialist institutions. "

" What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience. "