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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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" 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. "

" Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts. "

" If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.' "

" 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. "

" Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. "

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

" The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free. "

" If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones. "

" You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's. "

" GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never, ever to cut entitlements. "

" 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. "

" Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts. "

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

" Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines. "

" Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates. "

" I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama. "