Conservative Quote by Norah Vincent

“It took MS to teach me an invaluable lesson, one that many people think has made me a conservative, but which I think has simply made me an adult: The personal is not political. Quite the contrary, the political is personal.”

Norah Vincent

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The twin causes Bin Laden invokes are Islam and Arab self-determination, and armies rise to serve him. No need to convert or dogmatize. Believers…

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Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal…

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We are a nation of savages.

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Practically as soon as the towers hit the ground on Sept. 11, pundits of the left like Noam Chomsky and Susan Sontag took advantage…

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Americans love a morality tale, especially one that's been taken from real life. We like facile categories of good and bad, and we like…

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