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• The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting.…
• We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads.…
• I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China. China…
• I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do…
• Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.
• For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up…
• A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures:…
• Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a…
• The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.
• ...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.
• I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in…
• Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can…
• The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the…
• When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid…
• Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?
• I think at a certain level compared - as was pointed out earlier, compared to what is happening in Europe, the United States still gets…

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