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Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.


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So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.



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Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.



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The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.



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Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.



In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.



He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.



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Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.



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Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.



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If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.



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If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.





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At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.



I sat with my two best friends, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that only two of us would make it out of there alive. Though I did tend to exaggerate.

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You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.



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We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.



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God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.



The [Donald] Trump folks chose not to keep [Dan Fried] on. He was actually - I said he was actually the third-most senior diplomat in the foreign service.

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