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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. "
Timothy Noah
Money
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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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" A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government. "
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" The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will be in the minority, and when that happens we'll want to block the other side's extremist agenda.' "
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" On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details. "
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" I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy. "
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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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" Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts. "
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" The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about. "
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" Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs. "
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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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" Universities are basically socialist institutions. "
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" 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. "
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" Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so. "
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" Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense. "
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Us
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" Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support. "
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" An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government. "
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" 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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" Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds. "
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" What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress. "
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