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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation. "

" You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more. "

" Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. "

" Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense. "

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

" The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place. "

" Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise. "

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

" Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so. "

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

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

" Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth. "

" The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. "

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

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

" The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet. "

" Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president. "

" 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. "