- Nov 07, 2020
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- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't read 'Vanity Fair,' whose millionaire-fashionista-liberal shtick I find repellent.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not sorry the CIA went to the edge of the law in the aftermath of 9/11 to prevent further mass-casualty attacks on the U.S.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am sorry that Mr. Cheney, and every other supporter of enhanced interrogation techniques, has to defend the practices as if they were torture. They are not.
- Certitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
- Few
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- Nov 07, 2020
Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.
- Abrupt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps if there were less certitude about our climate future, more Americans would be interested in having a reasoned conversation about it.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case, you might say its ideas were pretty good - only the execution often left something to be desired.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ms. Rice was a bad national security adviser and a bad secretary of state. She was on the wrong side of some of the administration's biggest internal policy fights. She had a tendency to flip-flop when it came to the president's core priorities, and her political misjudgment more than once cost Mr. Bush dearly.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Character Doesn't Count' has become a de facto G.O.P. motto. 'Virtue Doesn't Matter' might be another. But character does count, and virtue does matter, and Trump's shortcomings prove it daily.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
In place of presidential addresses, stump speeches, or town halls, we have Trump's demagogic mass rallies. In place of the usual jousting between the administration and the press, we have a president who fantasizes on Twitter about physically assaulting CNN.
- Endure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The supposedly petty sexual harassment that so many women have to endure, from Hollywood studios to the factory floor at Ford, is a national outrage that needs to end. Period.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
- Nov 07, 2020
Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.
- Corridor
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- Nov 07, 2020