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

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Jonah Goldberg
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 21
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Jonah Jacob Goldberg
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I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot.
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The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years, partly because France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq that wouldn't be redeemable by a new regime.
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Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.
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If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.
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I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.
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Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
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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.
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And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.'.
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Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.
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Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.
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If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.
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The Mars Polar Lander cost the average American the price of half a cheeseburger. A human lander would cost the average American more - perhaps even ten cheeseburgers! So be it. That is no great sacrifice.
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