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The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.

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The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such negligible quantity. The...more

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If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement ther...more

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Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and ...more

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So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been ...more

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At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity....more

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Orwell's short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we were already aware. Parties and churches and states ...more

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Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself.

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Those of us who follow politics seriously rather than view it as a game show do not look at Hillary Clinton and simply think 'first woman president.' ...more

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1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East ...more

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One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred 'experience' on the despi...more

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Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.

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This brings us to the crux moment in the supposed 'Show Trial' melodrama. Employing the confusing and confused testimony of Jude Wanniski (who he also...more

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Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic R...more

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I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring an end to Muslim rese...more