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March 2004 |
| In the upcoming race, "Bush and his advisors clearly have their eyes on a larer political objective: nothing less than an electoral realignment and virtual one-party control of government. . . ." |
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September 2015 |
| "The sudden passion to cleanse the American landscape of any and all allusions to the Confederacy or slaveholding...suggests the emergence of a public that is losing meaningful contact with its own history." |
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July 2009 |
| Continuing on our current path--allowing health care costs to rise at twice the rate of income under the aegis of an unworkable government Ponzi scheme--is . . . unreasonable." |
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March 2014 |
| "The Constitution . . . Remains the source of authority for those in and out of government who oppose the administrative state, and a stumbling block to those who support it." |
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January 2018 |
| Citizenship is the most-cherished thing our nation can bestow. Our governing class should treat it as something special. We ought to put the interests of our citizens first and welcome those foreigners best prepared to handle the duties of citizenship. |
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March 2010 |
| "There is no substitute for integrity, good judgment, and a true sense of responsibility on the part of the financial decisionmakers at every level, in both the public and private sectors." |
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January 2012 |
| ". . . Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme only because Charles Ponzi did not have a gun. [The system] never will go broke as long as the government can force people to pay more taxes and accept fewer benefits." |
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March 2005 |
| "There is, in Bush's use of . . . Ideas, a certain ambiguity or confusion between the right to be free and the capacity to be free. The two are not quite the same." |
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January 2004 |
| ". . . A new set of checks and balances effctively would be created: Congressional spending would be checked by the president's reduction veto power, and abuse . . . Would be balanced by Congress' ability to cancel the power with a budget surplus." |
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May 2021 |
| "Today Big Tech does not just mean control over online information. It means control over news, commerce, and politics [and] it is obvious that Big Techs's priority . . .is to support the political left and the Washington establishment." |
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November 2021 |
| I have served in Federal law enforcement in various capacities for more than 35 years, under six different Administrations, while I have become numb to the spin and misdirection, I never have seen as blatant a disinformation campaign as this one. |
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January 2001 |
| Although the Supreme Court has established a number of precedents protecting the rights of workers, organized labor persists in using its political power to evade and defy those rulings to the fullest extent it can. |
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March 2006 |
| "Strong and imaginative leadership, coherent policies, and responsible politics and government will sustain our great nation." |
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January 2007 |
| With the war in Iraq and the muddle in the Middle East, the time is ripe for the U.S. to reduce its dependence on oil from the Persian Gulf--but where can the country turn for new sources of energy? |
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November 2003 |
| Are burgeoning budget deficits, national security overruns, burdensome government regulations, Medicare funding woes, and stiff global competition endangering America's powerhouse status? |
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January 2019 |
| "Pres. [Donald] Trump and the Democrats remind us what we have become, not what we could be." |
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September 2009 |
| ". . . It is difficult to fathom how those who defy American law can derive benefits for their children by their defiance--or that any sovereign nation would allow such a thing." |
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March 2003 |
| "If a wide enough channel were opened so that the supply of workers from Mexico could be legally matched with the demand for their labor in the U.S., the rationale for the current illegal flow of Mexican migrants would vanish." |
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November 2002 |
| "While the long-term outcome of efforts to lock up the Catholic vote for the Republican Party is in doubt, the short-term impact of conservative Catholics on the Bush Administration's policies is easier to see." |
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September 2001 |
| "As they become increasingly dependent on government money, charities could find their missions shifting, their religious character lost, and the very things that made them so successful destroyed." |
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March 2021 |
| "An unfortunate feature of the U.S. system's interplay of law, litigation, and regulation is that businesses can get sued if they do and sued if they don't." |
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July 2004 |
| By employing cooperative engagement--the perfect antidote to the Bush Administration's insistence on preemptive unilateralism--the U.S. can bring its security doctrine more in line with global realities. |
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July 2021 |
| "Americans are . . . outraged that critical race theory promotes three ideas--race essentialism, collective guilt, and neo-segregation--which violate the basic principles of equality and justice." |
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May 2008 |
| "Americans must decide, by reasoning from evidence and studying history, what is affordable and attainable rather than what appears most desirable--and make their wishes clear at the voting booth." |
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May 2018 |
| FBI Director James Comey, AG Loretta Lynch, FBI Deputy Dir Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, James Baker, and Bruce Ohr and others compromised Fed law enforcement to such an extent that the American public is losing trust. |
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May 2019 |
| "The Left's far-reaching reconstruction is intended not for temporary political advantage, but permanent domination." |
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July 2019 |
| "The measure of our Constitution is whether it is effective at encouraging just, stable, and free government…We need to preserve [the Electoral College], and we need to help our fellow Americans understand why it matters." |
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September 2004 |
| There is a real danger to the Republic when large segments of the population never make it to the polls while politicians "gerrymand" the boundaries for those who do vote. |
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September 2007 |
| If you do not have a college degree, it is the best job in the West--unless you die . . . unnoticed. |
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September 2018 |
| How does diversity strengthen us? Is is a force for unity and cohesiveness or a source of division and contention? Does it promote the common good and friendship that rests at the heart of citizenship, or does it promote racial and ethnic division. . . .? |
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November 2005 |
| "The laws that protect the integrity of our elections have been eroding for years, but it took a few whisker-thin races to bring national attention to the problem." |
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May 2013 |
| "U.S. consumers will be more insulated from some of this market volatility when America becomes energy self-sufficient, and even more so one the U.S. is a net oil exporter." |
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May 2007 |
| "Money cures almost all ills, while its absence is a precursor of restlessness, discontent, and violence. We need a foreign policy that showers dollars, not bombs, that ships business plans, not Humvees, abroad." |
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November 2008 |
| "At the heart of benefit-cost, cost-effectiveness, and benefit-risk analyses is the proposition that the existence of finite resources requires society to set priorities and make choices." |
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March 2015 |
| "The simple truth is that obesity is, has been, and always will be caused by an exccess of calories from any source--frequently also to physical inactivity and various shades of gluttony. Vilifying a single ingredient has no scientific validity… |
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July 2007 |
| "[We are] witnessing a carefully planned and professional orchestrated transformation of an unprincipled left-wing politician who will let nothing, not even her deepest-held beliefs, stand in the way of becoming first woman elected president of the U.S." |
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November 2009 |
| "The real tipping point for civilization is the beginning of another Ice Age--not a world a few degrees warmer." |
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March 2017 |
| "No Administration in recent history has confronted as much animosity as the Trump Administration. The vitriol is coming from a triumvirate of elites: Hollywood and New York celebrities; the major media outlets…Donald Trump…welcomes the fight." |
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January 2008 |
| ". . . We are about to waste an enormous amount of money and effort on carbon mitigation without lowering CO2 emissions one whit. [Al Gore] and his fellow travelers will carry the day." |
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July 2013 |
| "The notion of collective rights is wholly the invention of the Progressive founders of the administrative state, who were engaged in a self-conscious effort to supplant the principles of limited government embodied in the Constitution." |
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March 2022 |
| "Identity politics offers little to the working class, offends many families, sends angry parents screaming at school board members, and cost the Democrats in 2021's state and local elections." |
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July 2010 |
| It would be helpful if the public, as well as governmental decisionmakers, would take more enlightened positions on the vital role of private enterprise, especially companies involved heavily in international trade and investment. |
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May 2017 |
| "Good intellingece is a combination of information and insight. Information is the raw material, while insight is the finished product." |
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March 2009 |
| "Minimizing the disruption to the national economy may warrant a significant role for conventional fuels during the limited period that new energy sources are being developed and the means for their distribution put in place." |
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September 2010 |
| "Lack of transparency is endemic in governmental data, but the difficulty of finding basic historical data on central government debt is comical." |
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November 2010 |
| ". . . Opportunities for serious budget pruning abound in every department and agency--military and civilian as well as social and economic." |
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September 2017 |
| A [Democratic-controlled] gov't will make the Obama Administration look like weak tea. The program will be to alter the political landscape so that nothing like the Trump Admin. Or, for that matter, any conservative administration, ever returns to power. |
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July 2021 |
| The argument for reparations is not meant to substitute existing laws but to satisfy a blatant racist desire to divide Americans, not predicated on those who provably discriminate but based solely on skin tone and ancestry. |
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March 2019 |
| There is "outrageous" and there is "sickening" -- what is happening on the abortion front is both. |
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November 2002 |
| "With each Election Day, as more females fill the political pipeline from city councils to statehouses to Congress, we get another year closer to a nation where it is normal for a woman to be CEO, governor, and, yes, even president." |
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September 2006 |
| "Military action alone will not destroy Hezbollah or Hamas. . . . The pursuit of tactical military triumphs at the expense of the core strategic objective of Arab-Israeli peace is a hollow victory." |
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January 2003 |
| "Americans must remain vigilant, of course, but there is no need to raid the Treasury or turn the country upside down pursuing phantoms." |
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May 2012 |
| Public sector unions have become a vanguard movement within liberalism. There is no connection between effort and reward. You are guaranteed your job and a salary increase. There is a kind of bureaucratic equality. |
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January 2015 |
| The machinery created by the politics of kindness does not work very well--in the sense of being economical, adaptable, and effective--because the liberals who build, operate, defend, and seek to expand do not really care whether it works well… |
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May 2002 |
| "To maintain that the people, as haphazardly defined by a telephone-dialing machine and as interviewed by those beyond public accountability, should guide elected officials is nonsense." |
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March 2021 |
| "[Pres. Joe] Biden was supposed to end [Donald] Trump's toboggan ride. Instead, he is accelerating it." |
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May 2001 |
| ". . . Election 2000 showed the continuing vitality of the American political tradition of limited government and individual liberty." |
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January 2012 |
| It is one thing to have a President who is reluctant to acknowledge American exceptionalism, but quite another to turn over our nation's ability to make war to the United Nations. |
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July 2002 |
| It's time for Washington to turn its formidable resources to protecting Americans & stop robbing some to benefit others, jailing some to satisfy others & arrogating to itself add'l powers not authorized by the fundamental social contract, the Constitution |
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September 2019 |
| "The current crop of Democratic presidential hopefuls remain relentless in continuously upping the ante and then doubling down when called out on their outrageous promises." |
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January 2006 |
| Its costs--both seen and unseen--are enormous, as the 40-year-old Federal initiative "now is bigger than Medicare (the Federal health program for the elderly and disabled) and is the single largest item in state budgets, even more so than. . .education." |
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January 2002 |
| "There are no quick solutions to the energy supply and infrastructure challenge facing the U.S. specifically and the global marketplace generally." |
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September 2008 |
| "John McCain and Barack Obama are meeting at a time of historic confluence. They forever will be linked together. The next two months will define how they are remembered." |
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January 2010 |
| It has become quite apparent that the Obama Administration's major objective is a complete redistribution of the nation's wealth through a series of severe regulatory programs and onerous tax-and-spend initiatives. |
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November 2020 |
| "The entire American sports world--a culture that traditionally celebrates victors, meritocracy, colorblindness, and patriotism--suddenly has immersed itself in black victimization and left-wing radicalism." |
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March 2003 |
| ". . . The allegedly reformed campaign of the future will be less competitive, less controlled by candidates and their parties, and more influenced by the mainstream media and will involve fewer voters than the typical campaign of today." |
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November 2018 |
| The prevailing liberal doctrine traces individual rights to membership in various groups--racial, ethnic, gender, class-based, etc. Conservatives, by contrast, trace individual rights to human nature, to the essence of an individual as a human being. |
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July 2011 |
| "If the health reform law is upheld, the precedent established immediately and universally will deprive Americans of freedom and threaten to magnify that deprivation over time." |
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January 2011 |
| ". . . If the law ultimately is repealed, it should be replaced with a streamlined version that more sensibly meets the objectives of universal coverage at a more affordable price." |
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January 2002 |
| ". . . America steadfastly clings to perceptions formed in the 1970s, and national policies continue to reflect oil paranoia." |
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March 2002 |
| "With the downsizing of the active duty forces, more than 50% of our nation's combat capability resides within the National Guard and Reserve." |
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May 2007 |
| "One thing is certain. . . . Military intervention in Iraq and the climate of open rebellion that ensued profoundly have altered the terms of the [terrorist] threat and now condition its development." |
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July 2012 |
| The challenge facing planners in the second decade of the 21st century is how, at a time of severe budgetary pressures, does the nation maintain the defense industry's innovative, managerial, and technological strength so vital to national security? |
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March 2020 |
| The civil rights laws of the 1960s divided the country by giving birth to what was, in effect, a second constitution which would eventually cause Americans to peel off into two different and incompatible constitutional cultures. |
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September 2011 |
| "At a time such as this, when principled conservatives do not control the reins of power in Washington, state attorneys general become the first line of defense against Federal government overreach." |
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July 2008 |
| ". . . It seems quite clear that, warts and all, the U.S. still is the freest society with the strongest economy of any nation on the face of the globe." |
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July 2018 |
| Pompous broadcasters and obsessive Facebook and Twitter users reflect profound political divisions. There are so few moderate voices in the media because there are so few such voices among our political leaders. |
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May 2020 |
| ". . . Politicians suddenly find themselves not just experts in what market prices are, but what they should be." |
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January 2021 |
| "Whatever the current opinion of [Donald] Trump may be, his presidency was consequential, and its impact has altered the political landscape." |
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May 2003 |
| "Flexing military muscles without an international mandate and without convincing justification can prostitute traditional and honorable American principles, erod the U.S.'s reputation, and undermine its capacity to lead." |
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July 2021 |
| ". . . In the contemporary Congress, lawmakers are not even sure 'how a bill becomes a law.' " |
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November 2001 |
| ". . . The President and Congress must radically increase their surveillance of intelligence if America is to have a system that is both effective and reflective of democratic values." |
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January 2020 |
| Both parties whine about about executive overreach, but only when they do not occupy the White House. Neither party seeks to claw back power from the presidency because each side wants its respective team to exercise authority. |
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January 2003 |
| "A draft is not an intelligent way to fill a set of needs as diverse as those presented by the war on terrorism." |
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January 2017 |
| "After [Pres. Donald] Trump is sworn into office, his first move should be to demand compliance with Federal law and warn that any state or local official who stands in the way of Federal law enforcement will be arrested and prosecuted." |
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May 2005 |
| "This is a defining debate for today's leaders. Doing nothing is irresponsible and cowardly. It is in every American's interest to deal with this challenge." |
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March 2008 |
| "School Choice is the destination and education tax credits are what will get us there." |
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July 2005 |
| "Because of America's great dependence on fossil fuels for energy, the economic impact of [reducing emissions] would be particularly severe on the U.S. economy." |
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September 2016 |
| "Peddling illusions and divisions is toxic to a democracy. Is there any statesmanship to be found in these candidates? Is it too much to ask that one attempt to find common ground to repair our divided country?..." |
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January 2022 |
| "It indeed will be a daunting challenge to recapture the threads of civility and the moral framework that once made America the hope of the world." |
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July 2002 |
| "In the post-Cold War environment--with no immediate threat from another great power and none on the horizon (at least in the near to mid term)--Washington must avoid establishing inflated and costly military requirements for space-based resources." |
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July 2017 |
| "…Following the Citizens United ruling, the left settled on a new strategy. If it could no longer use speech laws against its opponents…it would threaten, harass, and intimidate its opponents out of participation." |
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July 2001 |
| Because Social Security taxes squeeze out private savings and investments, the result is a growing wealth gap, with blacks falling further and further behind. |
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July 2001 |
| "A Social Security crisis is coming, and it could turn out to be even worse than projected." |
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July 2003 |
| ". . . Governments must maximize their efficiency and not let tax rates get out of line with neighboring jurisdictions. Tax increases result in fewer businesses, slower economic growth, and a smaller tax base." |
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November 2017 |
| "He saw that the protection of specific groups or classes would lead government away from protecting individual rights and towards assigning benefits and burdens. 'I know of no rights of race,' he said, 'superior to the rights of humanity.'" |
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January 2014 |
| ". . . The longer we kick the can (of Social Security financial problems) down the road, the bigger that can will become--and, sooner or later, it will become too heave to move." |
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September 2009 |
| "We are not a boardinghouse for the world. We are a sovereign nation. It is time we started acting like one." |
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May 2003 |
| Members of Congress are endeavoring to prevent Pres. Bush from abrogating treaties without Congressional consent. |
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November 2011 |
| While the Tea Party probably is our best hope, its adherents will have to learn that the task is not to weaken the power of govt--it is to confine the govt to the exercise of its delegated powers that was the legacy of the founders. |
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May 2007 |
| "If Great Britain & the EU fail to put...pressure on Iran & confront it with either changing course or suffering devastating economic blows, all that will remain will be the choice between a bad solution (military option) & a dreadful one (Iranian bomb). |
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September 2012 |
| Shouldn't we judge the success of our efforts not by how much charity we provide to the poor, but by how few people need such charity? It should be clear that we need to focus less on making poverty more comfortable and more on creating prosperity. |
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July 2015 |
| "These battles will stop only if Christians abandon their historic faith on a national scale or if the Left decides that it is content to 'live and let live'--to work, attend school, and share the public square with people who express moral disagreement." |
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March 2016 |
| "The Clinton Foundation has failed to disclose millions of dollars in donations from foreign entities who 'needed Secretary of State Clinton to approve transactions with serious national security implications and without Obama Administration approval.' " |
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November 2020 |
| Working-class Republicans are angry that globalization and automation have up-ended their jobs. They resent elites' disparagement of them, while the liberals want to shake the foundation of a system that has given them opportunities and wealth. |
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May 2009 |
| Although the legislation is referred to as an economic stimulus plan, the CBO expects more of the money to be spent in 2011 and 2012 than in 2009. Despite protestations, these are not the actions of an Administration friendly to private enterprise. |
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March 2018 |
| The point is simply to prove certain facile, reductive, and invariably left-wing points about the nature of power and oppression. All of Western civilization is not analyzed through the use of reason, but through prisms of race, class, and gender. . . . |
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July 2016 |
| "I do not know what will end the current frenzy against the police. What I do know is that we are playing with fire and, if it keeps spreading, it will be hard to put out." |
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March 2001 |
| ". . . We cannot afford to ignore the overwhelming evidence that the media--old and new combined--is dramatically changing through the democratic process." |
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September 2003 |
| Though the public believes the incidences of these kidnappings are infrequent, they rank as the second-largest category of missing children in the U.S. |
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May 2006 |
| This pair of political hot potatoes has generated lots of debate, but no viable solutions, as a basic question continues to remain unanswered: How long will the working population agree that a rising share of its taxes goes to people no longer working? |
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March 2011 |
| ". . . The GDP of the U.S. had, by June 2010, recovered to a few percent higher than it was in the first quarter of 2007, while employment was five percent lower than it was in the first quarter." |
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September 2002 |
| "Changes in the intelligence craft must go beyond redrawing the organizational chart and redesigning its chain of command." |
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November 2004 |
| Isn't it a concern that George H.W. Bush, having traveled the world soliciting business for a giant defense contractor with deep ties to Saudi sheiks who funded Al Qaeda ... May have been whispering into the ear of his son to wage a global war on terror? |
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January 2016 |
| "The liberal left has abandoned the open-mindedness and reason of liberalism for prejudice, ideological conformity, and marginalization for opposing thoughts." |
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July 2006 |
| A mandate forcing individuals to purchase health insurance not only would be impractical, unenforceable & prohibitively expensive, it would represent...another unconstitutional breach of the people's right to live free from onerous government regulation. |
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January 2005 |
| "The four approaches to tax reform--flat, USA, national sales, and value-added--all are variations on the same theme. All would shift the base of Federal taxation from income to consumption while simplifying the process of complying with the tax law." |
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September 2021 |
| "Just as the destructive objective of critical race theory is to divide Americans racially, that of gender ideology is to disrupt the formation of stable families, the building blocks of American life." |
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November 2014 |
| The difference b/n the safety net and the Progressive bureaucracy is the difference b/n fair play and playing favorites, [as] our current president treats the rule of law like a rule of thumb. The three branches of govt are supposed to control each other. |
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September 2005 |
| ". . . In the widening circle of global freedom, the U.S. must commit to taking the long view of its role in the world. That will require strong and imaginative leadership, coherent policies, and responsible politics and government." |
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September 2015 |
| "The question of justifying the existence and use ofo such technology is whether the expedience of gaining access to information more quickly is worth the investment of billions of dollars and the cost to human privacy." |
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May 2006 |
| Vigorous opposition to unnecessary intervention in "crises" around the world has fallen on deaf ears, as each Administration since WWII has managed to blunder US foreign policy at the needless expense of American lives and the country's reputation abroad. |
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March 2012 |
| "A government instituted among men to protect the rights of the governed must respect freedom of conscience in matters of religion equally and must leave organization and practices of religion beyond the reach of the state." |
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January 2009 |
| If energy imports were curtailed completely, Alaska could provide seven years of crude oil independence and an eight-year supply of natural gas. Vast resources are being warehoused underground by Congress, placing us in a ridiculous difficult position. |
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January 2017 |
| "Presidents usually begin their terms with a fund of political goodwill. This cannot be 'twittered' away. Trump's adolescent behavior must disapppear. He is the president, and has an extraordinary opportunity--something that does not come along often…" |
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May 2002 |
| The Bush Administration has willfully wrecked int'l negotiations looking to control bacteriological weapons, backed off from agreements restricting small arms & land mines, refused adherence to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, & abrogated the ABM Treaty |
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November 2007 |
| It is past time for political and ecological alarmists to stop spreading unfounded fears that America's energy security somehow is endangered. |
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November 2017 |
| "Those who would destroy monument after monument to rid the nation of a subset of ugly parts of history do us all a grave disservice. They ignore the truths contained in the closing admonition in [Pres. Abraham] Lincoln's second Inaugural Address." |
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September 2020 |
| "Government officials, having shut down commerce due to unblemished ignorance of how markets work, now enabled the torching and looting of thousands of businesses due to the shirking of their most profound responsibility: protecting civil peace." |
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September 2020 |
| America's ignorant and disillusioned utopians are on a road to nowhere as they attempt to rewrite history. |
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November 2006 |
| Profit and power go hand in hand as the U.S. gears up to spread its military influence to yet another vast region--outer space. |
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March 2007 |
| "The consequences of a 'nuclear' preventive war with Iran easily could be worse than what has occurred after the 'weapons of mass destruction' preventive war in Iraq. Neither the Bush Administration nor the country should seek to make same mistake twice." |
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May 2011 |
| "Think tanks should be an antidote to the oversimplified sloganeering that dominates today's public policy debates." |
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May 2020 |
| "Bringing back our economy will not happen via some magical legislative sleight-of-hand. Recoveries that restore economic health take time, and this recovery, after an unprecedented shutdown, will take considerable patience and calm." |
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May 2004 |
| "The problem with the [Central Intelligence Agency] lies within its structure and culture. It does not match the task because the analytic side of intelligence is unlike any other function of government." |
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May 2020 |
| "A U.S. government strong enough to mobilize all of society's resources against all threats would compel us to depart from our founding traditions, and ultimately would threaten Americans' freedom and prosperity." |
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November 2019 |
| "Regardless of the circumstances, partisan impeachment efforts have elements of a political coup d'etat. The result of this push is unlikely to remove Pres. [Donald] Trump from office and will deepen political fissures that already are deep enough." |
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May 2015 |
| "Racism has become an all-purspose explanation for bad black outcomes, be they social or economic. … Today there is no greater impediment to black advancement than the self-pitying mindset that permeates black culture." |
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November 2005 |
| "Within wide limits, the U.S. can afford to spend whatever it believes to be necessary to promote the nation's security. . . ." |
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November 2016 |
| "the appiontment of the next Supreme Court Justice could be the most legally significant event for our country in a generation." |
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July 2020 |
| "We are in danger of losing the common threads of our civilization. The assumptions about the legitimacy of law and law enforcement are up for grabs." |
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March 2014 |
| Tax cuts, stable money, and the rendering of spending and regulation as superfluous are the formula of the supply-side revolution.They stand sentinel, not long ago in our history, as the way to advance through our sluggishness and purposelessness today. |
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