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“I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.”

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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

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In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American…

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The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and…

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At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying…

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So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it's also the only thing that's ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history…

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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.

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It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,…

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Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such…

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Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and…

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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've…

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I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

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