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...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.
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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.
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The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.
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It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.
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I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.
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I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.
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My father has been a rock for me every since.
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There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.
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The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.
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Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.
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The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.
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When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.
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Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.
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The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
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The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
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