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" The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

" The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university. "

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" Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance. "

" The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined. "

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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

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