Freer Quote by Rick Perlstein

“Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.”

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The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the oft-repeated and…

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Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow…

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