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“Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.”
“Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist ...”
“To the liberal class, every big economic problem is really an education problem, a failure by the losers to learn the right skills and get the credentials everyone knows youll need in the society o...”
“Theres a reason you probably havent heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of blight cant be easily blamed on the usual suspects like government or counterculture or high-hat urba...”
“Were all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worrying about the problems faced by workers is yet another deluded affectation of the blue-state rich.”
“he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth centurynaturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social satirewhich would eventually topple the ...”
“In 1991, though, began an uprising that would propel those reptilian Republicans from a tiny splinter group into the states dominant political faction, that would reduce Kansas Democrats to third-p...”
“I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.”
“We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this wee...”
“Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part,...”
“While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.”
“There’s a reason you probably haven’t heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of blight can’t be easily blamed on the usual suspects like government or counterculture or high-hat u...”
“We’re all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worrying about the problems faced by workers is yet another deluded affectation of the blue-state rich.”
