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“The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.”

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When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the stuff that's…

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“Who knows? If women all end up with the same face and body, men may gravitate toward the quirky. Then the chicks with the…

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“Materialism has defeated feminism as well. In a sign of the times, Gloria Steinem was on the picket line when the first American DeBeers store opened on Fifth Avenue in June 2005, protesting the evictions of Bushmen in Botswana to make room for diamond miners and the charges that the company dealt in "blood diamonds" used to finance civil wars…

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“Romantic googling can be as dangerous as drunk text messaging. Of course hell hath no fury like a woman who Google-bombs her old flames…

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Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his iPod full of heavy metal jams and his cute kids. But he's just a fresh face on a Taliban creed - the evermore antediluvian, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-gay conservative core. Amiable in khakis and polo shirts,…

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Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can come across…

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Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted,…

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President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.

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Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival. Certainly…

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I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.

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I think that an attack of America, an attack on American exceptionalism by the media, which is real, has certainly undercut a lot of…

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Young people in college - many living away from their parents for the first time in their lives - are particularly vulnerable to the…

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The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here has been…

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“Yes, my friends, your hunger for history is still pretty segregated. Your knowledge of America often ends at the color line. You end up erasing the black story as the American story, black history as American history. You certainly have an insatiable thirst for history, but only if that history justifies whiteness. Most black folk can’t help but notice what…

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American patriotism is now jingoism. American Greatness is made fun of. The concept of "Make America Great Again" or American exceptionalism is lampooned. It is impugned. It is attacked. The effort to globalize our society and make us feel, as many of us as possible, that there's nothing special about being an American, that we ought to think of ourselves…

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“Patton was ecstatic, writing home to Beatrice that “I know I am needed!” and “The Lord had a perfect cut for me and pulled…

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That [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they…

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If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons…

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American exceptionalism, in the broad sense, is not a bunch of braggadocious words people say, "Yeah, we're better people. We have a better country.…

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The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar…

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“But the biggest problem with being fed lies about how great we are is that people won't be prepared for how evil this government…

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Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new thing in history, different from other countries. Other nations had evolved one way or another, evolved from tribes from a gathering of clans, from inevitabilities of language and tradition and geography. But America was born,…

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