Quotes by Kurt Eichenwald - Page 1

Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effective weapon against them.
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Social Media
Effective
Important Tool
Weapon
Terrorists
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It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.
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Conceit
Ultimate
Voters
Conservatives
Make Up
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Until his dying days, Steve Jobs could not only predict the direction the marketplace would be heading, but help drive it there.
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Dying
Marketplace
Predict
Heading
Steve
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The bottom-line message of history is that if you're doubling and tripling your money in record time, you're also more likely to lose it all.
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Time History Money
Doubling
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I have always trusted my impulses. I have always believed that once I'm in the circumstances, whatever they may be, I will find the right way.
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Circumstances
Right Way
Trusted
Way Will Always
Impulses
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I've often thought that Obama should come out in favor of oxygen, just to see how many right-wingers keel over from holding their breath for too long.
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Oxygen
Obama
Breath
Favor
Holding
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If Republicans truly are dedicated to the sanctity of life, they should be the first ones on the front lines trying to get policies for the uninsured.
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Dedicated
Sanctity
Be The First
Republicans
Front Lines
Policies
Uninsured
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By the time I arrived for my freshman year at Swarthmore College in 1979, I had already had many seizures, although my family, friends and I did not know it.
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Freshman
Freshman Year
By The Time
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When 'Christians' cite the Bible as the basis for secular policies, they must explain why they believe Muslims in the Middle East are evil for doing the same with the Koran.
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Bible
East
Evil
Middle
Middle East
Secular
Basis
Christians
Cite
Explain
Muslims
Policies
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Uninsured people don't just slink off into a corner and die. They seek treatment, but usually when it is an emergency, and this will be the most expensive kind of care available.
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Available
Expensive
Treatment
People Will Care
Corner
Emergency
Seek
Uninsured
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Bitcoins are not an investment. They are an investment fad that someday could be a real digital currency, but if they continue to behave as they have, they will instead be nothing.
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Bitcoin
Fads
Real
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When the Bill of Rights was written, no one owned a MAG5100, 100-round magazine for an M-16. The concept of a mass slaughter carried out over a matter of minutes was incomprehensible.
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Bill Of Rights
Mass
Slaughter
Carried
Concept
Incomprehensible
Magazine
Owned
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I am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.
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Agnostic
Disappointing
Hope Good Great
Great Thing
Something Else
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According to the Epilepsy Foundation of America, there are more than two million Americans with epilepsy. Half have what I have, idiopathic epilepsy, meaning there is no known cause for the seizures.
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According
Meaning
Million
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People don't have a constitutional right to leave loaded guns lying around. And if they choose to do so - and a kid gets shot and killed because of it - it's not an accident. It's negligent homicide.
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Homicide
Loaded
Lying
Accident
Guns
Constitutional
Constitutional Right
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There were plenty of reasons to suspect Obamacare might have been a colossal failure - although none of them had to do with death panels, huge lines for treatment, a government takeover of health care, etc.
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Colossal
Etc
Health Care
Treatment
Suspect
Takeover
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Enron was becoming a virtual cult of creativity, often placing swagger over substance. New ideas were celebrated for their newness, for their potential; tried and true businesses like the pipelines were almost derided.
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Creativity
Ideas
Swagger
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To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.
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Aftermath
Defining
Strategic
Technique
Terrorism
Blunder
Concept
Reaping
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When it comes to the teapot tempest that is the Hillary Clinton email imbroglio, the real controversy isn't about politics or regulations. It's about journalism and the weak standards employed to manufacture the scandal du jour.
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Clinton
Controversy
Employed
Journalism
Scandal
Standards
Tempest
Weak
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Manufacture
Regulations
Teapot
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I've long thought that Marco Rubio would make a strong G.O.P. candidate for president. While he was brought into office by surfing on the Tea Party wave, he has proven himself not to be wedded to the frequent lunacy of those folks.
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Lunacy
Proven
Surfing
Tea Party
Wave
Candidate
Frequent
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At any time of day, hundreds of different versions of Facebook are running on the Internet - with a changed color here, a moved button there - and the user response to each variation is measured. And the same is done with advertising.
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Advertising
Response
Variation
Versions
Button
Facebook
Hundreds
Measured
User
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Bitcoins can be traded or used for purchases, but only with those sellers who will accept them. Because it is a system independent of external meddling, there can be no sudden devaluation of Bitcoins through the actions of governments.
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Meddling
Sellers
Actions
External
Governments
Purchases
Sudden
Traded
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There isn't a lot of honesty when it comes to discussing Obamacare. Too many Republicans lie about the implications of the health-insurance program and dismiss out of hand the reasons a massive overhaul of the long-time system is necessary.
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Discussing
Honesty
Implications
Massive
Dismiss
Republicans
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Like most people, I gave little thought during my life to the scourge of child pornography. But, I now know we are fighting a losing battle. The predators are sophisticated in the use of computers and talented in the manipulation of children.
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Children
Fighting
People
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The doctor gave me several warnings: Never tell anyone unless necessary, because I might be ostracized. Call it 'seizure disorder,' not epilepsy, because fewer people would be frightened. Try to choose a profession as free from stress as possible.
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Disorder
Fewer
Frightened
Profession
Me Free People
Doctor
Seizure
Warnings
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The argument by the anti-gay-marriage crowd is so absurd, so internally contradictory, and so awash in unproven assertions that it is difficult to take it as anything more than a construct cobbled together by people who just don't like those people.
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Absurd
Cobbled
Construct
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Basically, whenever someone says they're wrong, conservatives too often fall back on claims that those who disagree with them are biased and thus worthy of being ignored, a convenient position that allows them to avoid debating uncomfortable criticisms.
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Being Ignored
Biased
Claims
Disagree
Ignored
Uncomfortable
Worthy
Conservatives
Criticisms
Debating
Thus
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Assess Bitcoins? All you can do is examine the trading patterns, which do not provide a real analysis of any underlying economic value. The economics of investments are not solely based on supply and demand, and that is all that goes into Bitcoin prices.
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Analysis
Bitcoin
Demand
Economic
Patterns
Trading
Assess
Based
Examine
Prices
Provide
Solely
Supply
Value
Underlying
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All anti-abortion protesters should be presented, on the spot, with an application to sign up as foster parents. They should also be given the names of children in their area in need of adoptive parents. And if they won't sign or volunteer, they should shut up.
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Application
Shut Up
Volunteer
Foster
Spot
Presented
Shut
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Whenever someone says zygotes are babies, I reply: 'Imagine a thousand zygotes in test tubes in one room, and three toddlers in another. A fire breaks out, and you only have time to get to one room. Which would you save from burning - the zygotes or the children?'
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Burning
Thousand
Tubes
Babies
Breaks
Reply
Test
Toddlers
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As late as 2007, Facebook was still trying to figure out what it wanted to be when it grew up. An advertising space seemed to be the obvious answer, but how that would tap into the massive value of the personal data uploaded to the company every day remained a puzzle.
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Advertising
Data
Massive
Obvious
Tap
Facebook
Remained
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By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.
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Barefoot
Common Goal
Corporate
Dawn
Excellence
Microsoft
Millennium
Programmers
Shirts
Thick
Nights
Hawaiian
Staid
Walls
Weekends
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A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.
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Al Qaeda
Busy
December
Invasion
Pentagon
Trapped
Decisive
Fighters
Forces
Refused
Requests
Strike
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I think it's wrong for the government to subpoena records from journalists involved in national-security reporting (particularly since I do it myself). I do believe it has a chilling effect on the ability to gather news about potential abuses masked by inappropriate classification.
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Abuse
Classification
Inappropriate
Chilling
Gather
Journalists
Reporting
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Obamacare is socialism? Nope - as insurance companies vie to sell new policies, competition within private industry is growing rapidly, with the number of participating insurers growing by 26 percent between 2014 and 2015, and the number of products they offer growing by 66 percent.
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Insurance Companies
Participating
Socialism
Insurance
Policies
Rapidly
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Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.
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Rolling
Rolling Stones
Stones
Anne
Bell
Collective
Detested
Dismissed
Michael
Elvis
Haters
Jackson
Joined
Mozart
Originally
Wiped
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If a doctor said you had stomach cancer, would you consult Rush Limbaugh for a second opinion? Of course, that sounds like nonsense, but many Americans have no qualms about listening to political commentators and untrained activists when it comes to even more complex scientific questions.
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Cancer
Nonsense
Qualms
Stomach
Activists
Doctor
Consult
Rush
Scientific
Untrained
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Plenty of gun opponents have pointed out the obvious: that the Founding Fathers could never have envisioned the kinds of 'arms' that exist today - Washington, Jefferson, and the rest had never even seen a bullet. Musket balls for guns that required constant reloading were the 'arms' of the day.
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Arms
Constant
Founding
Gun
Obvious
Opponents
Bullet
Guns
Envisioned
Fathers
Founding Fathers
Jefferson
Pointed
Required
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When it came to dire warnings about Obamacare, the Republicans were the kings of 'swing and a miss.' People would flee the health care industry to avoid Obamacare? Nope - according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care gained about 1 million new jobs in preparation for increased demand.
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Demand
Health Care
Labor
Preparation
Statistics
According
Bureau
Dire
Republicans
Flee
Health Care People
Gained
New Jobs
Swing
Warnings
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In the aftermath of the oh-so-predictable crash, the Bitcoin fanatics have begun marshaling out excuse after excuse for why this non-investment investment lost so much of its value so fast. One was that hackers attacked some of the exchanges for Bitcoins and crippled it. Really? A hacker can wreck an entire market?
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Aftermath
Bitcoin
Crash
Crippled
Fanatics
Hackers
Investment
Lost
Attacked
Begun
Fast
Entire
Exchanges
Hacker
Market
Value
Wreck
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Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don't be fooled. In the parlance of popping investment bubbles, it's something called a 'dead-cat bounce.' People who are desperate to keep the game going rush back in, hoping to bring the price back up, but it never lasts.
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Bounce
Bubbles
Desperate
Fooled
Investment
Lasts
Popping
Game People Never
Back Up
Bets
Casino
Hoping
Rush
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No one - not a conservative or liberal or whatever - can stand back and 'define' what marriage means. Other people's marriages have nothing to do with mine; whether my neighbors are divorced or gay or widowed will not lead me to change anything about how my wife and I deal with each other or how we raise our children.
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Divorced
Widowed
Define
Liberal
Marriages
Neighbors
Raise
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I have no problem with responsible gun owners who own weapons for self-protection, hunting, or just sport. The ones who believe they have a constitutional right to 100-round magazines to fight off I don't know what - a zombie apocalypse? - try to shut down dialogue with threats and other macho posing because of their flawed beliefs.
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Apocalypse
Dialogue
Flawed
Gun
Hunting
Macho
Magazines
No Problem
Owners
Posing
Weapons
Zombie
Beliefs
Constitutional
Constitutional Right
Shut
Threats
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The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object.
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Bleeding
Choke
Myth
Teeth
Tongue
Wake Up
Aching
Believing
Hurting
Jaw
Object
Roommates
Swallow
Well-Intentioned
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Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth ignoring because they came up with answers that didn't fit their politically desired answer. Often, they proclaim experts have a liberal bias. Of course, plenty of Democrats have voted for conservative ideas, but that is beside the point.
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Bias
Experts
Incompetent
Scorned
Beside
Conservatives
Democrats
Desired
Ignoring
Liberal
Proclaim
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Because the Second Amendment is an incomprehensible mess, because too many lobbyists have argued that it is an absolute protection of actions and items never considered at the time of our nation's founding, and because there is a clear state interest in protecting the lives of its citizens, the words must be removed from the Constitution.
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Founding
Items
Lobbyists
Mess
Second Amendment
Absolute
Actions
Amendment
Argued
Incomprehensible
Protecting
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