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As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.

We're all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.

Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.

Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

[Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can find anything.

Life is too short, and cigars are too expensive, to smoke them for any reason other than enjoyment.

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.

Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation?

Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism!

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

It is faith that moves mountains, not reason. Reason is a tool, but it can never be the motive force of the crowd." This

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant.

I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot ...

If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

Associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

Liberals are Nazis, and Nazis are liberals. And if you don't agree with me, you're a Nazi too.

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.

Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.

The white male is the Jew of liberal fascism.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair.

A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.

John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!

I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, "If we can put a man on the moon ... ," grab your wallet.