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" What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say. "
Timothy Noah
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" The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members. "
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" Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country. "
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" 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. "
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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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" One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations. "
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" In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them. "
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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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" 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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" I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive. "
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" Working people vote! "
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" The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland. "
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" Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too. "
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" Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama. "
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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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" The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class. "
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" It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts. "
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" The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country. "
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" Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority. "
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" Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality. "
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" Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important. "
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" The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free. "
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" When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean. "
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" Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance. "
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