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Churches should not be directly involved in politics.
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Churches
Directly
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If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?
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Debate
Ifs
Winning
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Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?
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Needs
People
Romance
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The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.
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Gender
Modern
Race
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... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.
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Executives
Hands
Subordinates
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No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.
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Half
Thinking
Zest
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You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.
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Running
Morality
People
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We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.
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Bitterness
Multitudes
Wish
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Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.
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Government
Hardened
Ideology
School
World
Schools
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Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
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Campus
Conservative
Free Speech
Attack
Particularly
Speaker
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Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.
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America
Europe
People
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By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.
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Change
Erotic
Fashion
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The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?
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Long
Media
Opposites
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Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value.
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Emphasis
Humans
Lost
Personhood
Quality Of Life
Sanctity
Stress
Traditional
Began
Damaged
Instead
Meaning
Qualify
Value
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The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that the government allows to be printed on any product: "Some assembly required."
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Government
Dumb
Funny Christmas
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I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.
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Advantage
Brooding
Monday
My Time
Tuesday
Opposite
Stand
Addicted
Time People Stand
Allegedly
Double
Firmly
Spend
Principle
Seem
Switch
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In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.
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Age
Feelings
Self
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The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is profoundly anti-democratic, essentially inviting elites to interpret what the common people believe and want. In litigious modern America, that would be a judicial elite telling us how we meant to vote or should have voted.
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America
Believe
Should Have
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Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to go to church, do volunteer work or put down roots in a community. Journalists are over-represented in ZIP code areas where residents are twice as likely as other Americans to rent foreign movies, drink Chablis, own an espresso maker and read magazines such as Architectural Digest and Food & Wine.
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Espresso
Roots
Wine
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[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.
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War
Fighting
Japan
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