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Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
John Podhoretz
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John Podhoretz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 18
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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
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The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
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All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.
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The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
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Every great political campaign rewrites the rules devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.
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Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
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I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
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Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
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Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.
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Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.
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The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.
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The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.
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