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“People tend to throw up hands at Michael Jackson's multifarious bizarreness. But is it really so strange? The boy was forced to work by a cruel and physically abusive father starting at the age of 7.”

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Seeing the rich and famous screw up makes us feel superior, or at least not quite so inferior.

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Trade, tourism, cultural exchange, and participation in international institutions all serve to erode the legitimacy of repressive regimes.

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The cradle-to-grave welfare state diminishes individual initiative and can breed a pervasive sclerosis.

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America's sanctions policy is largely consistent and, in a certain sense, admirable. By applying economic restraints, we label the most oppressive and dangerous governments…

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You may or may not agree with Obama's policy prescriptions, but they are, by and large, serious attempts to deal with the biggest issues…

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The invasion of Iraq was, in ways that have since become hard to dispute, a terrible mistake.

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In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives.

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The leader who loves books that tell him he is great and right may be worse than the leader who does not love books…

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Without medical records that he hasn't released, we can't know whether Gingrich may have inherited his mother's manic depression. Nevertheless, one observes in the…

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Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.

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“The shared secret and the shared denial are the most horrible aspects of incest.”

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“The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.”

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“The happy family is a myth for many.”

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“SOME people are just born evil. No twisted childhood trauma, no abusive father, or alcoholic mother, just plain God-awful mean.”

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