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" The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that. "
Timothy Noah
Really
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" Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes. "
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" With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion. "
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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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" When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean. "
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" The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time. "
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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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" When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet. "
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" The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago. "
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" There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods. "
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American
Best
" Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. "
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" The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game. "
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" In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it. "
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Meet
Along
" It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. "
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Never
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" The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place. "
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Never
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" When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist. "
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Try
Rich
Inequality
" To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy. "
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Reality
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Education
" Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no? "
Timothy Noah
Gun
Law
Kind
" You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome. "
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Effort
Inequality
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" The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value. "
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Food
Good
" 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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Inevitable
Same
Result
" Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country. "
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Election
Results
Talk
" 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. "
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Elections
Guide
Most
" Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative. "
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" No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. "
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Blame
You
" When Grover Norquist launched his project to name anything and everything after Ronald Reagan, I humbly proposed that the deficit be re-christened 'the Reagan.' "
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Anything
Name
" If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it. "
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Sat
Last
" Capitalism can't deliver decent health care. "
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Capitalism
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" What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for. "
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Want
Pay
Government
" We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts. "
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" There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases. "
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Democrats
Greenhouse