"One answer is that the town's elected officials……" — Michael Kinsley
"One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this."
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24 Quotes by Michael Kinsley
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Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or…
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Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the…
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The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
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In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger,…
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The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for…
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Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.
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If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the…
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I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.
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The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges…
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He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make…
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In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward…
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