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This might explain why Obama g...

This might explain why Obama gave billions to Wall Street crooks, and dragged the Iraq and Afghan wars on and on.
Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing... We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns.

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It is difficult to find a repu...

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of evasions: history as sociology, leaders as teachers, bland benevolence as a motive force, when, finally, power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait, the necessary force without which no city was built, no city

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Liberal comes from the Latin l...

Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.

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Our rulers for more than half ...

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

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We should stop going around ba...

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

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Our only political party has t...

Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. 'We have a single system,' he wrote, and 'in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.'

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I regard monotheism as the gre...

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

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I'm a born - again atheist....

I'm a born - again atheist.

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Religions sprang up among men ...

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

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Envy is the central fact of Am...

Envy is the central fact of American life.

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The United States was founded ...

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country Ђ' and we haven't seen them since.

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Every four years the naive hal...

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

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Congress no longer declares wa...

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

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When anyone says to me, 'Can y...

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

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You hear all this whining goin...

You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'

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At a certain age, you have to ...

At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care Ђ' if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.

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In almost every case (where th...

In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.

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I am an obsessive rewriter, do...

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

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First coffee, then a bowel mov...

First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.

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To speak today of a famous nov...

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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