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• Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy and the Republican Party are criminal, racist or both. The simple reality is that, for him, the Democratic Party is far too conservative.

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  Party, Simple, Reality

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• Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

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  Lying, Men, Politics

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• If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

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  Perfect, Saying No, Effects

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• Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

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  Office, Debt, Facts

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• The Mars Polar Lander cost the average American the price of half a cheeseburger. A human lander would cost the average American more - perhaps even ten cheeseburgers! So be it. That is no great sacrifice.

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  Sacrifice, Average, Cost

  "A Continent Bleeds" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. May 3, 2000.

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• As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.

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  Lying, Knows

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.57, Crown Forum

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• In many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished edifice of American Progressivism--is in fact a descendant and manifestation of fascism.

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  Facts, Century, Fascism

  Jonah Goldberg (2009). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit that's what they're doing.

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  Government, Belief, Problem

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• I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims that there is no conflict between his love of country and his desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: “You're mistaken.” And, therefore, I'm thinking of adding this corollary to my General Rule of patriotism: The more intellectually consistent and pro-U.N. you are, the less patriotic you are likely to be. I haven't thought that all the way through, but it seems right to me.

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  Country, Patriotic, Fate

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• In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, “Why aren't we killing people yet?” And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States could do after 9/11 was to kill people. Call it a “forceful response,” “decisive action” ' whatever. Those are all nice euphemisms for killing people. And the world is a better place because America saw the necessity of putting steel beneath the velvet of those euphemisms.

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  War, Nice, Good Friend

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• (I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler when he signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Stalin was an evil character, to be sure. But cowardice really isn't the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Stalin ' that word is “sexy.” I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

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  Sexy, Character, Thinking

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• The decision [to create a theme park called "EuroWorld"] was made by the EU countries in response to their collective realization that no one in Europe has had an innovative idea in well over a century.

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  Country, Europe, Ideas

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• Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

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  Phones, Amy, Tabloids

  Twitter post from Jul 23, 2011

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• Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.

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  Pigs, China, Kosher

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• Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

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  Yesteryear, Would Be, Tactics

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• Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.

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  Smart, Ignorant, Care

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• There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

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  Medical, Dogma, Ethical

  Jonah Goldberg (2012). “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas”, p.63, Penguin

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• [A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.

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  Country, Ill

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• [There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

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  Country, Yearning, Unpatriotic

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• Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

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  Want, Progressive, Ideologues

  Jonah Goldberg (2012). “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas”, p.24, Penguin

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• [Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can find anything.

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  Cat, Thinking, Long

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• [In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

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  Taken, Miracle, Magic

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• Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.

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  Country, Government, Unions

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• Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment. For instance, if my kid were starving to death, I would happily feed her fresh panda.

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  Kids, People, Pandas

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• In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't have a clue what they're doing.

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  Europe, America, Cost

  "All (Green) Thumbs". www.nationalreview.com. June 1, 2012.

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